TWIPO #50 ~ Interview With Dr. Jonathan Finlay

In this most recent TWiPO podcast hosted by Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital), he interviews Dr. Jonathan Finlay (Program Director of Neuro-Oncology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital) about sparked in research interest in brain tumors. One of Dr. Finlay’s mentors, helped launch a new treatment, which was able to rescue a proportion of newly diagnosed children who failed conventional chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. That novel treatment is now a growing method of treating medulloblastoma.

TWIPO #36 ~ Interview With Kathleen Neville, MD, on Pediatric Drug Development

January
27, 2014
New York, NY -- This Week in Pediatric Oncology
(TWiPO), the first podcast focusing on pediatric cancer research, announced
that Kathleen Neville,MD, from Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, is a
featured guest on its most recent episode. In this episode, Dr. Kathleen
Neville talks about the challenges of drug development in pediatric cancer with
with host Dr. Tim Cripe (Nationwide Children's Hospital).
Kathleen Neville is the Director of
Experimental Therapeutics in the pediatric cancer program at Children's Mercy
Hospital in Kansas City. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the
division of pediatric clinical pharmacology, medical toxicology and
hematology-oncology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of
Medicine. She is also the chair of the education committee of the American
Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and a consultant on FDA
pediatric advisory committee, and serves on the FDA Pediatric Oncology
Subcommittee of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee.

TWiPO #21 ~ Interview with Dr. Beatrice Lampkin

November
29, 2011
Dr. Tim Cripe and co-hosts Dr. Maureen O'Brien
and Dr. Raj Nagarajan interview a pediatric hematology/oncology legend, Dr.
Beatrice Lampkin, who served as Director of Cincinnati Children's Division of
Hematology/Oncology in the 1970’s. This enlightening and inspiring discussion
explores her career and her contributions to leukemia therapy and the
challenges she faced as an early leader in the field as a female. She describes
her experience with polio, paralysis from the neck down, crutches for mobility,
and later, her confinement to a wheelchair. Revealing another era in
communications with parents and patients in the 1960s and 1970s, she explains
how parents were advised to use the term "anemia" to describe their
child's condition rather than "leukemia" to to explain why the child
would require periodic blood transfusions, in order to prevent shunning by
friends and family. Dr. Lampkin also shares her satisfaction in following the
earliest survivors of pediatric cancer she treated who are now in their 40s and
50s.
As if all that isn't inspiring enough, she
describes her busy retirement in which she continues to teach the Cincinnati
Children's Hospital fellows how to examine blood and bone marrow smears under
the microscope and her work in the founding of the GLAD House (http://www.gladhouse.org/),
a sanctuary to help drug-addicted youth get off the streets.
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