The multidisciplinary care we provide involves a dedicated team of pediatric blood and marrow transplant (BMT) experts, including physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, dietitians, social workers, financial counselors, teachers, child life specialists and chaplains. Together, these professionals meet the medical, spiritual and emotional needs of patients and their families.
Members of the Aflac Cancer Center’s pediatric blood and marrow transplant (BMT) team include:
Physicians
Leslie S. Kean, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, BMT Program
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Research interests: Transplant immunology with a special interest in immune tolerance-induction after non-myeloablative transplant
Ann E. Haight, M.D.
Medical Director, BMT Program
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Research interests: BMT in sickle cell disease and other non-malignant disease; supportive care in BMT and infections in the immunocompromised host; clinical research ethics
Kuang-Yueh (KY) Chiang, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Research interests: Clinical trials in BMT, stem cell biology and growth factor mobilization
John T. Horan, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Research interests: Non-myeloablative transplant for sickle cell disease; graft versus host disease and outcomes research
Muna Qayed, M.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Mid-Level Practitioners
- Elyse Bryson, P.A.-C.
Physician Assistant
- Deborah Lutterman, R.N., M.S.N., C.P.N.P
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
- Ellen Olson, R.N., M.S., C.P.N.P.
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Other BMT Team Members
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Liz Weinzierl, R.N., B.S.N.
Outpatient Clinic Nurse
- Norah Keeley, R.N., B.S.N.
Outpatient Clinic Nurse
- Diana Worthington-White, M.Ed.
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Manager, Cellular Therapies Laboratory
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Kristy Applegate, M.B.A., C.H.T.C.
Project Manager
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Judy Caruso
Program Data Coordinator
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Neferteria Ector
Financial Counselor
Physicians and researchers at the Aflac Cancer Center are faculty members at Emory University School of Medicine.