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Attending Physicians
Faculty/Staff
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Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Founder and Director of the Duke Pediatric
Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program, Director of the Carolina
Cord Blood Bank, and attending physician. Dr. Kurtzberg is a pioneering
researcher in cord blood transplantation and an internationally
recognized leader in stem cell research and transplantation in children.
email:kurtz001@mc.duke.edu |
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Paul Martin, M.D.,
Ph.D.
Dr. Martin is a pediatric
Hematologist/Oncologist with extensive experience in both bone marrow
and unrelated cord blood transplantation. He has special expertise in
the areas of ALL, AML, myelodysplastic syndrome, thalassemia, sickle
cell disease, Wiskott-Aldrich, Hurler syndrome and hemaphagocytic
disorders. As well he coordinates autologous transplant for patients
with brain tumors and other malignant solid tumors. His clinical
research is in the area of childhood ALL, post-transplant infections,
and ICU care of post-transplant patients. He designs and helps carry out
clinical protocols, which utilize the latest advances in stem cell
transplant, with focus on unrelated cord blood cell transplants.
His training has taken him from Harvard University, to Washington
University Medical School in St Louis, to residency and fellowship at
Yale University. He has been at Duke since July of 1996.
email:marti066@mc.duke.edu |
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Paul Szabolcs, M.D.
Assistant Professor of
Pediatrics and Immunology, attending physician. Dr. Szabolcs' clinical
and laboratory research interests focus on recovery of the immune system
after allogenic transplantation. His laboratory research focuses on
graft engineering aiming to decrease graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)
while finding ways to augment immune reconstitution after
transplantation to reduce infectious complications and relapse.
email:
szabo001@mc.duke.edu |
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Timothy Driscoll,
M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, attending physician. Dr
Driscoll's clinical research interest is in the development of new
effective treatment regimens for neuroblastoma, which encompass stem
cell tumor purging, stem cell transplant and laboratory studies
investigating chemotherapy-induced apoptosis in neuroblastoma.
email:
drisc002@mc.duke.edu |
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Suhag Parikh, M.D.
is a pediatric
hematologist/oncologist with additional training in stem cell
transplantation. As an attending physician with the pediatric stem cell
transplant program, he takes care of children undergoing stem cell
transplantation for a variety of disorders - ranging from malignant
diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma and myelodysplastic syndrome to
nonmalignant diseases such as aplastic anemia, histiocytosis and
leukodystrophies. His clinical research interest is stem cell
transplantation for children with hemoglobinopathies such as sickle cell
anemia and thalassemia.
email:
parik002@mc.duke.edu |
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Vinod Prasad, MD, MRCP
(London)
is a pediatric bone marrow and stem cell transplant specialist, and
a board certified pediatric hematologist/oncologist with over 14 years
of experience in worldwide institutions. Dr. Prasad’s practice includes
stem cell and bone marrow transplant for childhood cancers,
immunodeficiency diseases, inherited metabolic diseases,
hemoglobinopathies and other serious disorders. He has research
interests in the area of histocompatibility with a focus on identifying
the most suited and well matched donors for transplant through the use
of cutting edge molecular and genomic techniques.
email:
prasa004@mc.duke.edu |
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