Dr. Maissaa Janbain was born in Lebanon and received her M.D. degree from the Lebanese University in 1999. After completing her internship and residency in Internal Medicine in Lebanon, she came to the U.S., where she completed a second internship…
Dr. Lindsey George is a pediatric hematology/oncology fellow at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. As a NHF-Baxalta Fellow, Dr. George will receive clinical training under the mentorship of Dr. Leslie Raffini, Director of the Hemophilia…
Dr. Stacy Croteau received her B.S. and M.S. in Neuroscience, and her M.D. at Brown University, where she was awarded AOA. She was resident and chief resident in pediatrics at Boston's Children's Hospital and received the Sydney Farber Award. At the…
The purpose of this project is to determine if children with hemophilia have gross motor delays. Gross motor skills include, but are not limited to walking, running, jumping, climbing, crawling, balancing, kicking, catching and throwing activities.…
Hemophilia is a rare lifelong condition which can be potentially life-threatening. Parents bare a significant responsibility for delivery of medical care because the treatment for hemophilia begins early in life for children within the home setting…
Dr. Angela Weyand is a pediatric hematology/oncology fellow at The University of Michigan, Mott Children's Hospital. She is a native of Kansas City, Kansas and a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Weyand attended medical…
At the time of his application, Dr. Pavan Bendapudi was finishing his third year of adult hematology/oncology training at the combined Dana Farber Cancer Institute- Massachusetts General Hospital (DFCI-MGH) fellowship program. After finishing his…
The study will characterize the skeletal health of factor VIII deficient mice with and without exercise and compare these two groups to each other and to historic results from wild-type mice. We hypothesize that exercise will improve the skeletal…
The purpose of this project is to request support for the development of a Virtual Reality Environment (VRE) study program for pediatric patients diagnosed with hemophilia. The VRE program proposed was developed and created for children and includes…
Dr. Jessica Garcia is currently a pediatric hematology/oncology fellow at the Medical College of Wisconsin/Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Her clinical mentor is Dr. Joan Gill, Director of the Comprehensive Center for Bleeding Disorders (CCBD) in…