Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee

To assure that our contributions and those of our donors, both conceptual and financial, continue to have maximum impact, particularly in view of the rapidly advancing knowledge in this field, the Board of the Histiocytosis Association has established a Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee (MSAC). This new committee is intended to further advance our efforts to most rapidly and effectively obtain and translate new knowledge in these diseases to benefit the outcome of children and adults (and their families) with these difficult diseases. The MSAC will provide guidance to the Association at several levels--assuring that grant funding decisions are wise, particularly in the face of rapidly progressing knowledge in the field, and that the broad and strategic directions of the Association remain cutting edge. The MSAC is composed of nationally and internationally prominent investigators, ranging in interest and expertise from basic scientific to translational to clinical studies. We are looking forward to the MSAC adding important insights to future planning of the Histiocytosis Association and to providing guidance in maximizing the research contributions of the Association and our donors to the conquering of these diseases. You can read the full announcement regarding MSAC here.

Chair
Stephan Ladisch, MD Program Director Child Health Research Center Children’s National Medical Center

 

Committee Members
Barrett J. Rollins, MD, PhD Chief Scientific Officer Linde Family Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School		Johannes Visser, MD Consultant Paediatric Oncologist University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester Children's Hospital
Thomas Gross, MD Deputy Director of Science National Institutes of Health		Sheila Weitzman, MD Senior Staff Oncologist  The Hospital for Sick Children
Oussama Abla, MD Staff Haematologist/Oncologist Haematology/Oncology University of Toronto		Jan-Inge Henter, MD Childhood Cancer Research Unit Q6:05 Karolinska University Hospital
Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD Executive Vice President Chair, Department of Global Pediatric Medicine Director, International Outreach Program St Jude Children’s Research Hospital		Kimo Stine, MD Department of Pediatrics University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/ College of Medicine
Milen Minkov, MD CCRI, St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung		Eli L. Diamond, MD Department of Neurology Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Meriam Merad, MD, PhD Hematology/Oncology Mt Sinai Hospital		Robert Vassallo, MD  Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering Mayo Clinic