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Caring for Young People With Cancer
When teens and young adults are diagnosed with cancer, they can feel lost — too old for pediatric care but decades younger than most cancer patients. And their numbers are growing: A staggering 90,000 cases are projected in 2022. “Our goal,” says Dr. William Tap, Chief of MSK’s Sarcoma Medical Oncology Service, “is to provide well-rounded care…
Read More2021 Kristen Ann Carr Fund Holiday Letter
Dear Friends, We hope this holiday season finds you and your family in good health and great spirits. The last two years have reinforced the essential purpose and importance of gathering with family and friends which coincides with Kristen’s philosophy of “I want to live my life in the moment with the people I love.” …
Read MoreMeet the 2021-2022 Surgery Fellow – Daniel C. Thomas, MD, MPH,
This year, Daniel C. Thomas, MD, MPH, was named the Kristen Ann Carr Fund Surgery Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) for 2021-22. A lifelong resident of New York State, Dr. Thomas was born and raised in Rochester and attended college at SUNY Cortland. He received his medical degree from the SUNY Upstate…
Read MoreMeet the 2021-2022 Oncology Fellow – Melanie Degliuomini, MD, MS
This year, Melanie Degliuomini, MD, MS, was named the Kristen Ann Carr Fund Medical Oncology Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) for 2021-22. Dr. Degliuomini is a third-year pediatric fellow in the combined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and NYPWeill Cornell Medicine (WCMC) program. Dr. Degliuomini’s primary clinical and research focus has…
Read MoreCatch up with 2019-2020 KACF Medical Oncology Fellow Tara O’Donohue
Dr. O’Donohue is currently a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at MSK Kids focusing on developmental therapeutics in relapsed and refractory childhood cancers. Cancers that occur in the pediatric population are a heterogeneous group of relatively uncommon malignancies with complex and understudied biologic characteristics, often resulting in a lack of effective therapeutic options.…
Read MoreMeet the new KACF Fellow – Madalyn G. Neuwirth
Dr. Madalyn Neuwirth is the 2020 – 2021 KACF Surgical Fellow and is completing her second year as a Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with plans to pursue an academic surgical oncology career in treating soft tissue sarcoma patients. She is currently involved in clinical outcomes research for soft…
Read MoreMy Story: Jeffrey Gendel
Its Monday morning, July 2nd, 2018, I’m sitting in the reception area on the 3rd floor at the Memorial Sloan Kettering 53rd Street clinic waiting to see a doctor, my mind racing with thought after thought as I try my best to not let the demons take over my psyche. “Stay Positive”. “We Got this”.…
Read MoreMeet the 2020 KACF Surgical Fellow, Sonia Cohen, MD, PhD
Sonia Cohen, MD, PhD, is the current KACF Surgery fellow through 2020, coming to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center after 5 years in the Massachusetts General Hospital Surgery Residency Program. She will return to the Massachusetts General Hospital in August 2020 to start her practice in surgical oncology with a focus on soft tissue sarcomas.…
Read MoreFROM THE KACF SARCOMA LAB AT MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING
Support from the Kristen Ann Carr Fund (KACF) will fully fund Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) senior research technician Lei Zhang, PhD, as she works to uncover the genes that drive the development of rare sarcomas in children and young adults. Using state-of-the-art genetic sequencing and the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, Dr. Zhang and her…
Read MoreMeet the 2019/2020 KACF Surgical Fellow, Tara O’Donohue, M.D.
Tara O’Donohue, MD is the KACF medical oncology fellow for 2019 – 2020. She is in her third and final year of her pediatric hematology oncology fellowship and also serving as one of Peds Chief Fellows. A graduate of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Dr. O’Donohue did her internship and residency training at NYP-Weill…
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