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Medical Advisory Board, Joanne Pang Foundation
Michael D. Amylon, M.D. Stanford University amylon@stanford.edu Dr. Amylon graduated from Stanford University of Medicine in 1976. He received his medical degree from Stanford in 1976 and completed pediatric residency training and a postdoctoral fellowship in hematology/oncology in 1981, also at Stanford. His research activities and clinical work focus on pediatric oncology and bone marrow transplantation, diagnosis and treatment of T-cell lymphomas, and improvement of outcomes in transplant patients and complications from acute graft-versus-host disease. He was the director of the bone marrow transplantation program and is now the Emeritus Professor of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology of Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. Dr. Amylon has served on numerous committees at Stanford and regionally and nationally, as well, including with the Pediatric Oncology Group. He received the Alwin C. Rambar-James B.D. Mark Award for Excellence in Patient Care, recognizing him with “compassion in dealing with patients and their families, excellence in providing medical treatment, and effectiveness and pleasantness in interactions with ancillary patient-care staffs.”
Morton J. Cowan, M.D. University of California, San Francisco mcowan@peds.ucsf.edu Dr. Cowan is recognized throughout the world for research in immunodeficiency diseases, the use of alternative donors and in utero stem cell transplantation. He performed the first bone marrow transplant at UCSF for a child with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID) in 1982, the first T cell depleted transplant on the West Coast for a child with leukemia in 1985 and more recently, the first pure blood stem cell transplant from a parent to a child with SCID in North America. Dr. Cowan received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his MD degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Following 2 years in surgery at Duke University Medical Center and 3 years as a Staff Scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Cowan went to UCSF where he completed his pediatric and immunology training. He established the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Program in 1985. Dr. Cowan has been Chief of Blood and Marrow Transplant Programs at UCSF Children’s Hospital since 1990s. Dr. Cowan has more than 130 publications in a variety of medical and scientific journals focused on the genetics of SCID, the immunobiology of in utero stem cell transplantation and the use of alternative donors including unrelated donors, partially matched relatives and umbilical cord blood.
Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D. Duke University kurtz001@mc.duke.edu Dr. Kurtzberg earned her medical degree from New York Medical College. She completed her internship at Dartmouth Medical Center and her residency at Upstate Medical Center at the State University of New York in 1980. Dr. Kurtzberg is an internationally renowned expert in umbilical cord blood transplantation. She pioneered the use of unrelated umbilical cord blood transplants for children with resistant cancers and rare metabolic diseases, and she personally performed the first unrelated cord blood transplant in the 1980s. She has been the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina since 1990s. She has also been an active advocate of public umbilical cord blood banking and was invited into White House when President Bush signed a bill into law on December 20 of 2005 establishing a national umbilical cord blood program providing federal funding to collect and store cord blood for life-saving blood cell transplants and reauthorizing the existing national registry for marrow donors.
Stephanie Lowe, M.D. Kaiser Permanente stephanie.lowe@kp.org Dr. Lowe received her medical degree from the University of Southern California in 1994 and completed her Pediatric internship and residency at Kaiser Foundation Hospital—Oakland in 1997. She immediately joined The Permanente Medical Group and is currently a Senior Staff Pediatrician at the San Francisco Medical Center. Being fluent in Cantonese, she cares for a large proportion of Chinese families and finds this extremely rewarding. She is also in charge of the Pediatric Immunization Outreach Program at Kaiser San Francisco and supervises UCSF Pediatric Residents and Medical Students.
Jordan R. Wilbur, M.D. Cancer Hope jrwilburmd@aol.com Dr. Wilbur graduated from Stanford University in 1953 with a degree in psychology. After two years of service in the U.S. Navy, he continued with graduate pre-med studies at Stanford and received his M.D. from Stanford in 1961. He spent two years in pediatric training at Children's Hospital in Boston, then returned to Stanford as Chief Resident in Pediatrics. In 1968, he became the head of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute and then served as Chief of the Medical Staff from 1969 through 1972. Dr. Wilbur returned to Stanford University in 1972 where he founded the Children's Oncology Program at Children's Hospital, Stanford. He also served as Chief of Staff and Associate Professor of Pediatrics there. In June 1977, he moved his pediatric oncology program to California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and served as the Chief of Pediatric Oncology. Dr. Wilbur currently is a consultant to Cancer Hope.
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