Key Doctors & Specialists for Histiocytosis
Note: These are only the ones we have been exposed to, heard about or read about. I am sure the list is incomplete.
Clinical Hem/Onc
R. Maarten Egeler, M.D., Ph.D. (Note: Current Histiocyte Society President)
Department of Pediatrics
Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Web LinkKenneth L. McClain, M.D., Ph.D. (Note: Past Histiocyte Society President)
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine - Associated with Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
Web Link 1Robert J. Arceci, M.D., Ph.D. (Note: Past Histiocyte Society President)
Director of Pediatric Oncology
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Bunting-Blaustein Cancer Research Building, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Web Link 1 Web Link 2 Web Link 3Nicole Grois, M.D., (Note: LCH study protocol chair person - specializes in CNS involvement)
LCH Study Reference Center
St. Anna Children's Hospital, Vienna, Austria
Web LinkRima Jubran, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Department of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CABruce Bostrom, M.D.
Children's Hospitals & Clinics - Minneapolis, MNDavid Freyer, D.O.
De Vos Children's HospitalKara Kelly, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian
Web LinkR. B. Raney, M.D.
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Web LinkSheila Weitzman, M.B., Ch.B.
Division of Hematology/Oncology
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Web Link 1 Web Link 2Kim Nichols, M.D.
The Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaJoseph Neglia, M.D.
University of MinnesotaStacy Nicholson, M.D.
Oregon Health and Science UniversitySharon Murphy, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Medical School
Chief of the Division of Hematology / Oncology at Children's Memorial Hospital in ChicagoDr. Vassallo
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MNDr. James Whitlock, M.D.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TennesseeGiulio D'Angio, M.D.
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Web LinkMark Nesbit, M.D.
RetiredAlexandra Flipovich, M.D. - Focused on HLH
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Pathologists
Ronald Jaffe, M.B., B.Ch. (Note: Official LCH III pathologist)
Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pathology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - Associated with Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Web Link 1 Web Link 2Louis P Dehner, MD
Professor & Director, Division of Anatomic Pathology
Department of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University in St. Louis - Associated with the Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital
Web LinkBlaise E. Favara, MD
Web LinkHanns Lassman
Director of the Brain Research Institute and the Department of Neuroimmunology
University of Vienna, Austria