Medical Advisory Board

Farrukh T. Awan, M.D.

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Director of Lymphoid Malignancies Program
Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

John Byrd, MD

D Warren Brown Chair of Leukemia Research
Director, Division of Hematology
The Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbus, OH

Alexey V. Danilov MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine l LLS Scholar in Clinical Research
Knight Cancer Institute l Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR

Matthew S. Davids, MD, MMSc

Associate Director, Center for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Boston, MA

Richard Furman, MD

Director of the CLL Research Center
Member of the Lymphoma/Myeloma Service
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY

Thomas E Henry III, MBA, RPh, CPh

Clinical Pharmacy Advisor, Lumere
President and Senior Consultant, Burlington Consulting Associates
Has served as Chief Pharmacy Officer at two Top-15 Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Moffitt (Tampa, FL) and Roswell Park, (Buffalo, NY)

Brian Hill, MD, PhD

Taussig Cancer Center
Cleveland Clinic

Peter Hillmen, PhD, MB ChB

Professor of Experimental Haematology, University of Leeds
and Honorary Consultant Haematologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Leeds, United Kingdom

Kaitlin Kennard, BSN, RN

CLL Program Nurse
Center for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Thomas Kipps, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology-Oncology
Deputy Director of Research
University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center
La Jolla, CA

Brian Koffman, MDCM, DCFP, DABFM, MS ED

Retired Family Doctor
Retired Clinical Professor in Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, USC
Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of the CLL Society Inc.
Claremont, CA

Anthony Mato, MD, MSCE

Director, CLL Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Susan M. O’Brien, MD

Associate Director for Clinical Science, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Medical Director, Sue & Ralph Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials & Research
Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, School of Medicine, UC Irvine Health Sciences
Orange, CA

John M. Pagel, MD, PhD

Chief of the Hematologic Malignancy Program and Director of Stem Cell Transplantation
Center for Blood Disorders and Stem Cell Transplantation
Swedish Cancer Institute
Seattle, WA

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Steven T Rosen, MD

Provost and Chief Scientific Officer
Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center and Beckman Research Institute
City of Hope
Duarte, CA

Lindsey Roeker, MD

Medical Oncology/Hematology Fellow
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

John Seymour, MB, PhD

Associate Director of Clinical Research at the Peter MacCallum Centre
Director of the Department of Haematology of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre & the Royal Melbourne Hospital
Melbourne, Australia

Alan Skarbnik, MD

Director of the lymphoproliferative disorders program and experimental therapeutics, malignant hematology
Novant Health
Charlotte, NC

Sanjay Sharma, MD

Hemotologist/Oncologist
St. Jude Medical Center
Fullerton, CA

Tanya Siddiqi, MD

Director, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Program, Toni Stephenson Lymphoma Center
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Duarte, CA

Kostas Stamatopoulos, MD, PhD

Director of the Institute of Applied Biosciences
CERTH, Centri for Research and Technology
Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece

Deborah Stephens, DO

Assistant Professor of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies
The University of Utah Health/The Huntsman Cancer Institute
Salt Lake City, UT

William G. Wierda, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Clinical Medical Director
Department of Leukemia
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Adrian Wiestner, MD, PhD

Senior Researcher
Laboratory of Lymphoid Malignancies
NHLBI (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
NIH (National Institutes of Health)
Bethesda, MD