The Cancer Institute
of New Jersey

Department of Pediatrics

Division of Pediatric
Hematology-Oncology

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Program

195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
(732) 235-KIDS (5437)

Program Description:

The Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Program provides state-of-the-art care for children and adolescents with oncologic and hematologic disorders. Care is provided by a multidisciplinary team of subspecialists. As full members of the Children's Cancer Group, the world's largest research organization for the understanding and treatment of childhood cancer, the most advanced care can be provided to such children. In addition to therapeutic trials and phase I investigational drug studies, epidemiologic, nursing and supportive care studies are areas of ongoing research. Biologic studies of childhood cancers are conducted through the Cooperative Human Tissue Network. This research may provide a better understanding of childhood malignancies, thus leading to better treatment and/or prevention of these cancers.

The Long-Term Survivors Clinic provides ongoing comprehensive care to children and adolescents who have been successfully treated for malignancies and are off all therapy. This care includes clinical evaluation and studies of endocrine, kidney and liver function to assess and compile data on the late effects of the disease and its treatment.

Children and adolescents with hemophilia and other bleeding disorders are managed in the State-funded Comprehensive Hemophilia Care Program. Likewise, children and adolescents with sickle cell anemia, thalassemia and other hemoglobinopathies are treated in the State-funded Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease Program.

Members of the Division understand that the emotional and psychological well-being of the child and family is as important as the quality of medical care that is provided. Therefore, a school teacher and child life specialist and counselors are available to tutor patients during their inpatient stays and outpatient visits. A school reintegration program provides a vital mechanism for school-aged children to return to school after their diagnosis and sometimes lengthy hospitalization. Support groups are provided to help the children and their families cope with the effects of these life-threatening illnesses.

Director:

Participating RWJUMG Physicians & Professionals:

  • Donna Plaxe, RN, APN, Inpatient Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
  • Paulette Forbes, RN, APN, Inpatient Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
  • Dawn Yuhas, RN, Assistant Nurse Manager, Pediatrics
  • Christine Call-Sternberg, Counselor/Patient Management Liason
  • Priscilla Scheiner, Counselor/Patient Management Liason
  • Susan Stephens, LCSW Social Worker

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Dawn M. Carey, RN, CPNP


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

careyda@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Specialty:  

Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner - Pediatric Nursing Certification Board

Degree:  

Seton Hall University, 1996


Dora Delsordo, APN


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

delsordo@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Specialty:  

Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner - Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, 1996

Degree:  

University of Pennsylvania, 1996


Richard A. Drachtman, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

drachtri@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Interests:  

Blood Disorders, Sickle Cell Disease

Specialty:  

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - American Board of Pediatrics, 1991, 1998

Degree:  

Chicago Medical School, 1984

Internship:  

Pediatrics, Northshore University Hospital, 1985

Residency:  

Pediatrics, North Shore University Hospital, 1998

Fellowship:  

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1991


John Glod, MD, PhD


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

glodjo@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Interests:  

Head and Neck Cancers

Specialty:  

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - American Board of Pediatrics, 1999

Degree:  

University of Colorado, 1996

Residency:  

Pediatric, Childrens Hospital Medical Center, 1999

Fellowship:  

Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Johns Hopkins Hospital/ National Institutes of Health, 2002


Lauri A. Goodell, MD


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Phone:  

732-937-8651

Fax:  

732-418-8348

Email:  

goodell@umdnj.edu

Address:  

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital - New Brunswick
One Robert Wood Johnson Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903-2601

Specialty:  

Anatomic & Clinical Pathology - American Board of Pathology, 1996

Degree:  

UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1991

Internship:  

Pathology, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1992

Residency:  

Pathology, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1996

Fellowship:  

Hematopathology, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1997


Barton A. Kamen, MD, PhD


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

kamenba@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Interests:  

Development of New Treatments for Children with Cancer

Specialty:  

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - American Board of Pediatrics, 1987

Degree:  

Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, 1976

Internship:  

Pediatrics, Yale- New Haven Hospital, 1977

Residency:  

Pediatrics, Yale University, 1978

Fellowship:  

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Yale University, 1980


Margaret Masterson, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

masterma@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Interests:  

Late Effects

Specialty:  

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - American Board of Pediatrics, 1990, 1996

Degree:  

Eastern Virginia Medical School, 1982

Internship:  

Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital of the Kings Daughters, 1983

Residency:  

Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh, 1986

Fellowship:  

Hematology and Oncology, Childrens Hospital Medical Center, 1989


Lisa A. Michaels, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

michaela@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Interests:  

Hemophilia, Thrombosis

Specialty:  

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - American Board of Pediatrics, 1998, 2005

Degree:  

University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1990

Internship:  

Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, 1991

Residency:  

Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, 1993

Fellowship:  

Hematology/Oncology, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, 1996


Susan Murphy, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

murphysu@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Interests:  

Children with Cancer and Blood Disorders

Specialty:  

Pediatrics

Degree:  

The State University of New York at Buffalo, 1985

Internship:  

Pediatrics, Schneider Children's Hospital of Long Island, 1986

Residency:  

Pediatrics, Schneider Children's Hospital of Long Island, 1988

Fellowship:  

Pediatric Hematology/Onocology, Schneider Children's Hos.of Long Island Jewish Med. Center Clinical Campus, 1991


Wilbur J. Pan, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

panwi@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Interests:  

Pediatric Neuro-oncology, Asian-American Issues

Specialty:  

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - Eligible

Degree:  

University of Illinois, 1994

Internship:  

Pediatrics, Childrens Medical Center of Dallas, 1995

Residency:  

Pediatrics, Childrens Medical Center of Dallas, 1997

Fellowship:  

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Childrens Memorial Hospital, 2000


Susan Pillet, RN, CPNP


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

pilletsu@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Specialty:  

Nurse Practitioner - Pediatric Nursing Certification Board

Degree:  

UCLA School of Nursing, 1992


Beth Savage, RN, CPNP


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

savagebe@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Specialty:  

Nurse Practitioner - Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, 1999

Degree:  

Seton Hall University, 1999


Aaron R. Weiss, MD


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Phone:  

732-235-6455

Fax:  

732-235-6462

Email:  

weissar@umdnj.edu

Address:  

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Interests:  

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Solid Tumors

Specialty:  

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - American Board of Pediatrics, 2006

Degree:  

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, 1999

Internship:  

Pediatrics - Rotating, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2000

Residency:  

Pediatrics, DuPont Hospital for Children, 2003

Fellowship:  

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 2006