This Week in Pediatric Oncology

Co-Hosts Dr. Timothy Cripe and Dr. Randal Olshefski (Nationwide Children's Hospital), interview Dr. Javier Blanco, Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at SUNY Buffalo, about the late effects of chemotherapy.  In this podcast, the participants discuss the role that chemotherapy, such as doxorubicin and other anthracycline drugs, often play in increasing cardio-toxicity.

TWiPO hosts and cohosts interview Dr. Uri Tabori about the challenges that are unique to pediatric brain tumors, and how preventative treatment and early diagnosis can be largely beneficial.  

TWIPO hosts and cohosts interview Dr. Matthew Breen, NC State Veterinary Medicine, to explore the question "Can dogs teach us new tricks when it comes to cancer treatment?"

TWIPO hosts and cohosts interview Dr. Joshua Mendell, UT Southwestern Medical Center, who shares his knowledge with regard to the relationship between innate RNA biology and how it influences human disease.  

Host Dr. Timothy Cripe and co-Host Nilay Shah interview Dr. Sajid Qureshi, a professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai, India. Dr. Qureshi is an Executive Committee Member of the International Society of Pediatric Surgical Oncology (IPSO). In this episode Dr. Qureshi provides a fascinating, first-hand glimpse into the successes and challenges of delivering quality care to...

TWiPO Host Dr. Timothy Cripe, with co-hosts Dr. Nilay Shah and Dr. Bhuvana Setty welcome Dr. Damon Reed, Director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Program at Moffitt Cancer Center and Leader of the Pediatric Cancer Foundation's pediatric phase I consortium, the Sunshine Project. Dr. Reed shares his view points on how we can improve and accelerate the current trajectory with regard to pediatric th...

TWIPO hosts Dr. Timothy Cripe and Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children's Hospital) along with guest host Dr. Ryan Roberts (Nationwide Children's Hospital), interview Dr. Elizabeth Lawlor who is a Professor of Pediatric Oncology at University of Michigan and the Director of the Cancer Biology Training Program at University of Michigan Health System. Dr. Lawlor, a Ewing Sarcoma specialist, discusses...

On today's podcast, TWIPO host Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and co-host Dr. Ryan Roberts (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) interview Dr. Mark Hatley (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital). Dr. Hatley discusses how he got into the field of Biological Chemistry in Oncology. Also Dr. Hatley gives an indepth explaination about his research in G-Proteins.

On this episode of TWiPO podcast Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and co-host, Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Keri A. Streby (Nationwide Children's Hospital) interview Dr. Chrystal Louis (Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine.) Dr. Louis talks to the hosts about her role in both the acade...

On today's TWiPO Podcast host Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and co-host, Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) interview Dr. Kim Kramer (Pediatric Oncologist of Memorial Sloan Kettering.) In this interview they discuss a new cutting edge therapy for treating brain tumors, which involves targeting the tumor intravenously just like any other tumor.

On today's podcast TWiPO host Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and co-hosts, Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Robyn Dennis (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) Interview Dr. Linda McAllister-Lucas (Chief of Service, Hematology/Oncology of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In their...

On this TWiPO episode hosts, Dr. Timothy Cripe and Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) interview Dr. James Geller (Medical Director at Kidney and Liver Tumors Program, Co-Medical Director at Retinoblastoma Program, Associate Director at Global Cancer Programs, Associate Professor at UC Department of Pediatrics.) Dr. James Geller was one of the original TWiPO members back in 2010. Today...

This week in pediatric oncology TWiPO hosts Dr. Timothy Cripe, Robyn Dennis, MD, Dr. Nilay Shah interview Dr. Gregory Armstrong (Associate Professor in  the Department of pediatrics at the University of Tennessee health science center, Associate member of in the department of epidemiology in cancer control in Saint Jude's Children's Research Hospital, Director of CNS tumor after completion of ther...

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 convention...

TWiPO host Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and TWiPO co-host Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) interview Robin Norris, MD, who is a pediatric oncologist and the Director of the Pediatric Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital. Dr. Norris discusses the struggles...

TWiPO host Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) interviews Dr. Michael D. Hogarty, MD, an attending physician in the Division of Oncology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Hogarty recalls his efforts in finding a new way of tackling neuroblastoma by sending 17,000 tumor samples around the world. In this short interview, he discusses his current work in the lab, which invol...

TWiPo co-hosts Dr. Keri Stretby (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) interview Hiroyuki Shimada, MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Pathology at the Children’s Hospital of Lost Angeles. Dr. Shimada developed the Shimada neuroblastoma classification system for neuroblastoma, which was the basis of The International Neuroblastoma Pathology Classification a...

TWiPO host Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) interviewed Susan L. Cohn, MD, a Professor of Pediatrics, Dean of Clinical Research at the University of Chicago at the ANR meeting in Cologne, Germany last year for this episode of This Week in Pediatric Oncology. Dr. Cohn is a highly respected expert in pediatric cancers and blood diseases. She is a leading authority on neuroblastoma and...

In the most recent episode of This Week in Pediatric Oncology, co-hosts Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital), Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children’s Hospital), and Dr. Lionel Chow (Cincinnati Children’s) discuss the promising results of a study published in the July issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology among children with an aggressive brain tumor after receiving immunotherapy. To se...

In the most recent episode of This Week in Pediatric Oncology (TWiPO), the first podcast focusing on pediatric cancer research, co-hosts Dr. Keri Stretby (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital), caught up with Professor Michelle Haber (Executive Director at Children’s Cancer Institute in Australia and Professor Andrew Pearson of the Cancer Research UK....

New York, NY -- In the most recent episode of This Week in Pediatric Oncology (TWiPO), the first podcast focusing on pediatric cancer research, co-hosts Dr. Edwin Horwitz (Nationwide Children’s Hospital), Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital),  Dr. Robyn Dennis (Nationwide Children's Hospital), interview Dr.  Carl E. Allen, (Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers) about his resea...

New York – This Week in Pediatric Oncology presents the third and final interview from the recent Advances in Neuroblastoma Research meeting, which was held in Cologne, Germany, in May. Co-hosts Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Keri Stretby (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) talk with Frank Berthold, ANR2014 Local Chairman, to discuss meeting highlights in the short, 18-minute...

New York – This Week in Pediatric Oncology presents the second in a series of interviews from the recent Advances in Neuroblastoma Research meeting, which was held in Cologne, Germany, in May. Co-hosts Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Keri Stretby (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) discuss MIBG therapy in treating children with high-risk neuroblastoma with Dr. Kate Matthay (UC...

New York – This Week in Pediatric Oncology presents the first of a series of interviews from the recent Advances in Neuroblastoma Research meeting, which was held in Cologne, Germany, in May. Co-hosts Dr. Nilay Shah (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Keri Stretby (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) caught up with two pediatric oncologists who’ve made significant advances in neuroblastoma resear...

New York, NY -- In the most recent episode of This Week in Pediatric Oncology (TWiPO), the first podcast focusing on pediatric cancer research, co-hosts Dr. Timothy Cripe (Nationwide Children's Hospital), Dr. Robyn Dennis (Nationwide Children's Hospital), Dr. Andy Kolb (A.I. Dupont) and Dr. Lionel Chow (Cincinatti Children's) discuss two recent papers on the declining mortality rate in childhood a...