Pediatric Oncology Care Team

Tanja Gruber, MD, is the chief of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation and the Director of the Bass Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases. She is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: acute myeloid leukemia and other high-risk leukemias

Catherine Aftandilian, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), acute myelogenous leukemia (AML)

Jay Michael Balagtas, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: pediatric leukemia and lymphoma

Harvey Cohen, MD, PhD, is the medical director of the pediatric Palliative Care program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.

Areas of expertise: pediatric leukemia, palliative care

Jacquelyn Crane, MD, is board certified in pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: solid tumors, sarcomas

Kara Davis, DO, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: cancer immunotherapy, pediatric leukemia

Jennifer Kamens, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: acute myeloid leukemia and other high-risk leukemias

Erin Karski, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: pediatric oncology

Norman Lacayo, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology.

Areas of expertise: acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), acute myelogenous leukemia (AML)

Michael Link, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: Hodgkin’s lymphoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Crystal Mackall, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology, pediatrics and internal medicine.

Areas of expertise: cancer immunotherapy, CAR-T cell therapy, pediatric cancers

Lianna Marks, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: Hodgkin’s lymphoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Allison Pribnow, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: bone and soft tissue sarcoma, Wilms tumor, ewing sarcoma, osteogenic sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma

Sneha Ramakrishna, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: cancer immunotherapy, CAR-T cell therapy

Raya Saab, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: sarcoma, retinoblastoma

Kathleen Sakamoto, MD, PhD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: bone marrow failure disorders, pediatric cancers

Liora Schultz, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: immune reconstitution, acute leukemia, graft-versus-host disease

Danielle Shin, MD, is board certified in pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: pediatric leukemia, cancer genomics

Stephanie Smith, MD, is board certified in pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: pediatric cancer, cancer survivorship, adolescent and young adult transitions in care

Sheri Spunt, MD, MBA, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: bone and soft tissue sarcoma, Wilms tumor, germ cell tumors

John Tan, MD, is board certified in pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: pediatric cancers

Peng Wu, MD, PhD, is board certified in pediatrics.

Areas of expertise: pediatric liver tumors (hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma), cancer genetics