Meet Our Faculty

Stacey Rifkin-Zenenberg, D.O., FAAP

Fellowship Director Section Chief,
Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Residency: Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Schneider Children’s Hospital at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Research Interest: Hematology, Sickle Cell Disease, Coagulation, Gene therapy, ITP, Palliative Care, Pain Management, Bioethics

Katharine Offer, M.D.
Associate Fellowship Director, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Residency: NYP Columbia University Medical Center/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/NYP Weill Cornell Medicine, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Research Interest: Solid Tumors, Neuroblastoma, Renal Tumors, Osteosarcoma, Ewing Sarcoma, Germ Cell Tumors. Rhabdomyosarcoma, Rare Tumors, Early Phase Drug Trials, AYA

Organizations/Affiliations: Member, COG Osteosarcoma new agent task force

Alfred Gillio, M.D.

Director of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Section Chief, Stem Cell Transplant
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Residency: Medical College of Virginia, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Memorial Sloan Kettering, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant

Research Interest: Stem Cell Transplant, Bone Marrow Failure, Immunodeficiency, Gene Therapy

Organizations/Affiliations: Co-Chair: NJ State Pediatric Immunodeficiency Specialty Group Founding Member:
North American Pediatric Aplastic Anemia Consortium (NAPAAC)

Burton Appel, M.D., MBA, FAAP

Associate Director, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Chair, Data Safety Monitoring Board, Hackensack University Medical Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Residency: University of Chicago, Pediatrics

Fellowship: University of Chicago, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Research Interest: Hodgkin Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Onco-fertility

Katherine Armstrong, M.D.

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Residency: NYP Weill Cornell Medicine/Komansky Children’s Hospital, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/NYP Weill Cornell Medicine, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Research Interest: Hematology, Coagulation, Clinical Research

Christine Camacho-Bydume, M.D.

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Residency: Children's Hospital at Montefiore

Fellowship: New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell

Jing Chen, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Residency: University of Rochester Medical Center, Pediatrics

Fellowship: NYP Columbia University Medical Center/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Research Interest: Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Cancer Genetics, Precision Medicine, Early Phase Trials for Leukemia

Melanie Degliuomini, M.D.

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell

Fellowship: New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell

Derek Hanson, M.D.

Director of Pediatric Neuro-oncology Program
Chair, IRB, Hackensack University Medical Center
Director, Brain Tumor Research, Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Residency: Jefferson Medical College/Alfred A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Cohen Children’s Medical Center at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Research Interest: Brain tumors, Phase I Trials

Barbara Spitzer, M.D.

Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Residency: Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Jacobi Medical Center

Fellowship: New York Presbyterian Hospital/ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Special Fellow)

Katharine Rae Lange, M.D.

Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant

Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)

Fellowship: New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell

Jessica Scerbo, M.D.

Director, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Jersey Shore Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Residency: Schneider Children’s Hospital at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Cohen Children’s Medical Center at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Research Interest: AYA

Andrew Silverman, M.D.

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Residency: NYP Columbia University Medical Center/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Pediatrics

Fellowship: NYP Columbia University Medical Center/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Research Interest: Solid tumors, Immunotherapies

Bruce Terrin, M.D.

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Residency: Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Medical College of Virginia, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Research Interest: Hematology

Johannes Zakrzewski, M.D.

Associate Member, Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Oncology, Georgetown University School of Medicine

Residency: SUNY Downstate, Pediatrics

Fellowship: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant

Research Interest: Stem Cell Transplant, Hematologic Malignancies, GVHD, T-cell Development