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Leonard S. Sender

Director, Clinical Oncology Services, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Division Chief, Pediatric Oncology, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Clinical Professor Of Medicine
School of Medicine

M.D., University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa, 1982

Phone: (714) 456-8025
Email: lsender@uci.edu

University of California, Irvine
Building 56 Room 205
Orange, CA 92868

picture of Leonard S.  Sender

Academic
Distinctions
Intern of the Year-Dept. of Pediatrics,UCI (1983-1984)
PL-2 of the Year-Dept. of Pediatrics,UCI (1984-1985)
PL-3 of the Year-Dept. of Pediatrics,UCI (1985-1986)
Finalist,Young Investigator Award (1993)
   
Publications Pradhan KR, Johnson CS, Vik TA, Sender LS, Kreissman SG. A novel intensive induction therapy for high-risk neuroblastoma utilizing sequential peripheral blood stem cell collection and infusion as hematopoietic support. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2006 Jun;46(7):793-802.

Derzic S, Slone V, Sender L. IL-2-activated cord blood mononuclear cells. Cytotherapy. 2005;7(5):408-16.

Neudorf S, Nourani A, Kempert P, Shen V, Sender L, Kirov I. Chemotherapy and donor leukocyte infusions for relapsed juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML). Bone Marrow Transplant. 2004 May;33(10):1069.

Abu-Ghosh A, Goldman S, Slone V, van de Ven C, Suen Y, Murphy L, Sender L, Cairo M. Immunological reconstitution and correlation of circulating serum inflammatory mediators/cytokines with the incidence of acute graft-versus-host disease during the first 100 days following unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant. 1999 Sep;24(5):535-44.

Dunkel IJ, Boyett JM, Yates A, Rosenblum M, Garvin JH Jr, Bostrom BC, Goldman S, Sender LS, Gardner SL, Li H, Allen JC, Finlay JL. High-dose carboplatin, thiotepa, and etoposide with autologous stem-cell rescue for patients with recurrent medulloblastoma. Children's Cancer Group. J Clin Oncol. 1998 Jan;16(1):222-8.

Kronenberger W, Carter BD, Edards J, Morrow C, Stewart J, Sender L. Psychological adjustment of mothers of children undergoing bone marrow transplantation: The role of stress, coping and family factors. Children’s Health Care. 1998;27:77-95.
Jakacki RI, Jamison C, Heifetz SA, Caldemeyer K, Hanna M, Sender L. Feasibility of sequential high-dose chemotherapy and peripheral blood stem cell support for pediatric central nervous system malignancies. Med Pediatr Oncol. 1997 Dec;29(6):553-9.

Shen V, Woodbury C, Killen R, Van de Ven C, Sender L, Cairo MS. Collection and use of peripheral blood stem cells in young children with refractory solid tumors. Bone Marrow Transplant. 1997 Feb;19(3):197-204.
   
Professional
Societies
American Medical Association
American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
American Society of Hematology
American Society of Clinical Oncology
American Association for the Advancement of Scie
   
Other Experience Medical Director, Blood and Marrow Clinical Laboratory
CHOC 1997—pres

Medical Director, Cancer Research Laboratory
CHOC 1997—pres

Medical Director, Core Blood Bank
CHOC 1999—pres

Medical Director, CHOC Cancer Institute
CHOC 2001—pres

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Last updated 04/27/2010