MEET OUR DOCTORS

Mitchell S. Cairo, MD, Director Pediatric Blood & Marrow Transplant Program

• Medical school at University of California, San Francisco; Pediatric residency training at UCLA and UCSF; and fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Indiana University
• Board Certified in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology in 1982
• Formerly established and directed the BMT /Stem Cell Transplant Program at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (1985-1997)
• Former Director Adult and Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program at the Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University (1997-2000)
• Former Medical Director of the NHLBI Cord Blood Collection Center, Georgetown University (1997-2000)
• Chief, Pediatric Blood & Marrow Transplantation at Columbia University, New York Presbyterian Hospital
• Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Pathology, Columbia University
• Principle and Co-Principal Investigator of multiple investigator initiated stem cell transplantation protocols
• Member of Stem Cell Transplant Scientific Committee of the Children’s Oncology Group
• One of the world’s leading experts in unrelated cord blood and adult donor stem cell transplantation
• Editorial Board of Bone Marrow Transplantation

James Garvin Jr., MD, PhD

• Medical School at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Ph.D at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pediatric residency training at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Middlesex Hospital in London.
• Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship training at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

• Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation
• Expertise in autologous transplant for childhood solid tumors (including CNS tumors), allogeneic transplant for non-malignant disorders, and supportive care.
• Principal Investigator for the Pediatric Blood & Marrow Transplant Consortium
• Member of the Columbia University Medical Center Internal Review Board.
• Dr. Garvin's areas of interest are autologous stem cell transplant for 
  malignant brain tumors, and risk-adapted allogeneic stem cell 
  transplant for bone marrow failure syndromes and inherited metabolic 
  disorders.

Diane George, MD

• Medical School at Cornell University, with Pediatric residency training at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, and Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
• Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for two years, conducting research on the diagnosis and treatment of EBV associated post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD).
• Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation
• Associate Director, Institutional National Marrow Donor Program
• Clinical Director Outpatient BMT Service 

Monica Bhatia, MD

• Medical School at St. George’s University, Pediatric residency training at the Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center, fellowship training in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC.
• Research Fellow, Division of Immunology, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
• Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation
• Quality Assurance Medical Coordinator of Pediatric BMT Program at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian
• Clinical Director Inpatient BMT Service

Prakash Satwani, MD

• Medical School at Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, India; Pediatric residency training at the King Edward Memorial Hospital – BJ Wadia Children’s Hospital, Mumbai, India; Pediatric residency training at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY; fellowship training in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; fellowship training in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
• Research Fellow, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant, Columbia University, New York, NY.
• Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation
• Editorial Board of Bone Marrow Transplantation

Mary Brigid Bradley, MD

• Medical School at SUNY Syracuse, Pediatric residency training at University of Chicago
• Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation
• Laboratory research in tumor immunology
• Principal investigator on the institutional Lymphoma transplant protocol and Co-PI on the ALL transplant protocol