Meet Our Faculty
Stacey Rifkin-Zenenberg, D.O., FAAP, FAAPHM
Fellowship Director
Section Chief, Pediatric Pain, 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 MedicineResidency: 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