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