
Meet the Rally Medical Advisory Board
Every Rally Grant awarded is scrutinized and vetted by the Rally Medical Advisory Board comprised of the top pediatric oncologists in North America. Each grant application goes through our dual peer review process. We then award grants to the highest scoring applications.  We do this because we take every dollar you have given to Rally seriously. The Rally Medical Advisory Board works hard to make sure every dollar makes the biggest impact that it can.

Peter C. Adamson, MD
Sanofi; Cambridge, MA – Global Head, Oncology Development and Pediatric Innovation

Saro Armenian, D.O., MPH
City of Hope; Durante, CA – Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Population Sciences

Oren Becher, MD
Northwestern University; Chicago, IL – Associate Professor in Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH
University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL – Director for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship

Scott Borinstein, MD, PHD
Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt; Nashville, TN – Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Michael Burke, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin; Milwaukee, WI – Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology / Oncology / Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Nai-Kong V. Cheung, MD, PHD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York, NY – Neuroblastoma Program Head, Pediatric Oncology

Mark Chiang, MD, PHD
University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI – Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology / Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine

Murali Chintagumpala, MD
Baylor College of Medicine; Houston, TX - Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Neuro-Oncology Program

Eric J. Chow, MD, MPH
Seattle Children’s Hospital; Seattle, WA – Medical Director, Cancer Survivorship Program

Dai Chung, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center; Dallas, TX – Professor and Chief in Pediatric Surgery

John Crispino, PHD, MBA
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Memphis, TN – Member; Director, Experimental Hematology

Brian D. Crompton, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Boston, MA – Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Anthony Daniels, M.D., M.Sc.
Vanderbilt Eye Institute and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; Nashville, TN – Chief, Division of Ocular Oncology and Pathology

Christopher Derenzo, MD, MBA
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Memphis, TN – Assistant Member, Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Girish Dhall, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL - Director, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Jeffrey Dome, MD, PHD
Children’s National Health Center; Washington, D.C. – Division Chief, Hematology / Oncology; Vice President, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders

Adam Durbin, MD, PHD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Memphis, TN – Assistant Member, Division of Molecular Oncology

Adam J. Esbenshade, MD, MSCI
Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN – Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Natia Esiashvili, MD
Emory University; Atlanta, GA – Associate Professor in Radiation Oncology Department

Angela M. Feraco, MD, MMSC
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Boston, MA – Instructor in Pediatric Oncology

Adolfo Ferrando, MD, PHD
Columbia University Medical Center; New York, NY – Associate Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics

Debra Friedman, MD
Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt; Nashville, TN – Director of the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Gregory Friedman, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL – Associate Professor of Pediatrics Neuro-Oncology Program

Amar Gajjar, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Memphis, TN – Director of Neuro-Oncology Division

Jonathan Gill, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Houston, TX – Director, Clinical and Translational Research Program

Kelly Goldsmith, MD
Emory University; Atlanta, GA – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Vidya Gopalakrishnan, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center; Houston, TX – Associate Professor of Pediatrics Research and Molecular and Cellular Oncology

Adam Green, MD
University of Colorado; Aurora, CO – Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Abha Gupta, MD
The Hospital for Sick Children; Toronto, Ontario Canada – Medical Director, Adolescent and Young Adult Program

Rintaro Hashizume, MD, PHD
Northwestern University; Chicago, IL – Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Douglas S. Hawkins, MD, MPH
Seattle Children’s Hospital; Seattle, WA – Chair, Children’s Oncology Group; Professor of Pediatrics

Daniel Herranz, PharmD, PhD
Rutgers University; New Brunswick, NJ – Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Pediatrics

Douglas Hoffmann, MD, MPH
Marietta, GA – Pathologist / Hematopathologist

Andrew Hong, MD
Emory University; Atlanta, GA - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Eugene Hwang, MD
Children’s National Medical Center; Washington, D.C. – Director, Neuro-oncology Fellowship Program; Director, Clinical Neuro-oncology Immunotherapeutic Program

Michael Isakoff, MD
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center; Hartford, CT – Clinical Director, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorder; Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Theodore S. Johnson, MD
Medical College of Georgia; Augusta, GA – Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Emily Johnston, PHD
University of Alabama at Birmingham; Birmingham, AL – Assistant Professor of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Cigall Kadoch, PHD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Boston, MA – Assistant Professor, Pediatric Oncology

Jonathan Kaufman, MD
Emory University School of Medicine; Atlanta, GA – Associate Professor of Hematology and Medical Oncology

Michael Kinnaman, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York, NY - Instructor in Pediatric Oncology

Orly Klein, MD
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford; Palo Alto, CA - Clinical Assistant Professor

Kim Kramer, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York, NY – Pediatric Oncologist

Jacqueline Kraveka, D.O.
Medical University of South Carolina; Charleston, SC – Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Gadi Lalazar, MD
Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell College of Medicine; New York, NY – Instructor, Clinical Investigation

David Loeb, MD, PHD
Children’s Hospital at Montefiore; New York, NY – Chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Marrow and Blood Cell Transplantation

John M. Maris, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Philadelphia, PA – Director, Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Giulio D’Angio Chair in Neuroblastoma Research, Professor of Pediatrics

Melinda Merchant, MD, PHD
Epizyme; Cambridge, Massachusettes - VP Early Stage Development

Shakeel Modak, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York, NY – Pediatric Oncologist

Daniel Morgenstern, MD, PHD
The Hospital for Sick Children; Toronto, Canada – Staff Oncologist, Solid Tumor Program

Luke Mosley, MD, MTS
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH – Assistant Professor

Sabine Mueller, MD, PHD
University of California; San Francisco, CA – Associate Professor, Neurology

Esther Obeng, MD, PHD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Memphis, TN – Assistant Member, Molecular Oncology

Devang J. Pastakia, MD, PHD
Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN – Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics

Renee Read, PHD
Emory University; Atlanta, GA – Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Damon Reed, PHD
Moffitt Cancer Center; Tampa, FL – Associate Professor

Etan Orgel, MD, MS
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA – Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Lewis R. Roberts, MB ChB, PhD
Mayo Clinic; Rochester, MN – Professor in Gastroenterology Cancer Research

Jezabel Rodriguez-Blanco, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina; Charleston, SC – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Daniel Runco, MD, MS
Indiana University; Indianapolis, IN – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Marta Sanchez-Martin, PHD
Kyn Therapeutics; Cambridge, MA – Senior Translational Scientist

Elias Sayour, MD, PHD
University of Florida; Gainesville, FL – Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics

Jeff Schwartz, MD
Sacred Heart Hospital; Pensacola, FL - Medical Director, UF Health Pediatric Subspecialty Program; Division Chief, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology; Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Kevin Shannon, MD
University of California; San Francisco, CA – Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Sanford Simon, PHD
Rockefeller University; New York, NY – Professor, Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics

Simone Sredni, MD, PHD
Northwestern University; Chicago, IL – Research Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Sarah Tasian, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Philadelphia, PA – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Mireya Paulina Velasquez
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Memphis, TN – Assistant Member, Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Daniel Wechsler, MD, PHD
Emory University; Atlanta, GA – Professor, Department of Pediatrics

James Whitlock, PHD
The Hospital for Sick Children; Toronto, Canada – Division Head of Hematology / Oncology

Lena Winestone, MD
University of California, San Francisco; San Francisco, CA – Assistant Adjunct Professor

Jason T. Yustein, MD, PHD
Baylor College of Medicine; Houston, TX – Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Wafik Zaky, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center; Houston, TX – Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Patient Care

Jiwang Zhang, MD, PHD
Loyola University; Chicago, IL – Associate Professor of Pathology