Dr. Nancy A Kernan MD
Hematologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
1275 York Ave New York NY, 10021Rating
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I am a pediatric oncologist with extensive experience in transplantation with marrow, cord blood, and peripheral blood stem cells. I treat hematologic malignancies (such as leukemia) and immunologic d ...
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Engraftment and survival after unrelated-donor bone marrow transplantation: a report from the national marrow donor program.
- Donor characteristics as risk factors in recipients after transplantation of bone marrow from unrelated donors: the effect of donor age.
- Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for chronic myelogenous leukemia: comparative analysis of unrelated versus matched sibling donor transplantation.
- Prospective grading of graft-versus-host disease after unrelated donor marrow transplantation: a grading algorithm versus blinded expert panel review.
- Results of the cord blood transplantation (COBLT) study unrelated donor banking
- Characterization of banked umbilical cord blood hematopoietic progenitor cells
- Influence of T-cell depletion on chronic graft-versus-host disease: results of a multicenter randomized trial in unrelated marrow donor transplantation.
- Effect of graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis on 3-year disease-free survival in recipients of unrelated donor bone marrow (T-cell Depletion Trial): a multi-centre, randomised phase II-III trial.
- Topotecan, thiotepa, and carboplatin for neuroblastoma: failure to prevent relapse in the central nervous system.
- Immunogenicity of recombinant hepatitis B vaccine (rHBV) in recipients of unrelated or related allogeneic hematopoietic cell (HC) transplants.
- Successful immune reconstitution decreases leukemic relapse and improves survival in recipients of unrelated cord blood transplantation.
- Antigen-specific T-lymphocyte function after cord blood transplantation.
- Long-term follow-up of patients treated with daclizumab for steroid-refractory acute graft-vs-host disease.
- A scheme for defining cause of death and its application in the T cell depletion trial.
- Higher risk of cytomegalovirus and aspergillus infections in recipients of T cell-depleted unrelated bone marrow: analysis of infectious complications in patients treated with T cell depletion versus immunosuppressive therapy to prevent graft-versus-
Awards
- 2010-2011 New York Super Doctors
Treatments
- Cancer
Fellowships
- The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
- Cornell Univ. Medical College
- Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center
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