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Top Docs ’11: Pediatric Specialties – Hematology & Oncology
By Seattle Mag December 31, 1969
PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY & ONCOLOGY
Colleen Delaney, M.D., Seattle Children’s Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, 206.987.2106, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Harvard Medical School, 1996; stem cell transplant, pediatric cancer, cord blood transplant program
J. Russell Geyer, M.D., Seattle Children’s Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, 206.987.2106, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; Wayne State University, 1977; pediatric cancer, neuro-oncology, infant brain tumor study
Douglas S. Hawkins, M.D., Seattle Children’s Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, 206.987.2106, University of Washington Medical Center; Harvard Medical School, 1990; pediatric cancer, bone tumors, Ewing’s sarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma
Dana Matthews, M.D., Seattle Children’s Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, 206.987.2106, University of Washington Medical Center; University of Washington, 1981; pediatric cancer, pediatric hemophilia, pediatric thrombosis
Julie R. Park, M.D., Seattle Children’s Hospital, 4800 Sandpoint Way NE, 206.987.2106, University of Washington Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, 1988; pediatric cancer, neuroblastoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Thomas W. Pendergrass, M.D., M.P.H., Seattle Children’s Hospital, 4800 Sandpoint Way NE, 206.987.2026, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; University of Tennessee College of Medicine, 1971; pediatric cancer, blood disorders, retinoblastoma
Akiko Shimamura, M.D., Ph.D., Seattle Children’s Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, 206.987.2106, University of Washington Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; University of Rochester School of Medicine, 1991; pediatric cancer, bone marrow failure disorders, aplastic anemia, Shwachman-Diamond syndrome
William J. Thomas, M.D., 311 S L St., Tacoma, 253.403.3481, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and Health Center; Jefferson Medical College, 1972; pediatric cancers, brain tumors, bleeding/coagulation disorders
Originally published in July 2011
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