Cord Blood Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies: Where Are We and Where Are We Going? (NIH-Only) |
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| Air date: | Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 8:00:00 AM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local |
| Category: | NCI CCR Grand Rounds (NIH Only) |
| Description: | Dr. Barker received her MBBS from Adelaide University Medical School, Australia, and her FRACP in Internal Medicine/Hematology from University of Adelaide (Royal Adelaide Hospital) and University of Sydney (Westmead Hospital), Australia. She also did a fellowship in Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation at the University of Minnesota and remained there as an instructor and later assistant professor of Medicine.
She then joined Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. Her expertise is in donor-derived hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem-cell transplantation, with a particular emphasis on the use of umbilical cord blood from healthy newborns as a source of stem cells. She also conducts clinical research investigating new ways to use umbilical cord blood to treat diseases of the blood and bone marrow. She has a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and has spoken across the country on the topic of blood and marrow transplantation. NCI’s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds is a weekly lecture series addressing current research in clinical and molecular oncology. Speakers are leading national and international researchers and clinicians proposed by members of the CCR Grand Rounds Planning Committee and others within the CCR community and approved by the CCR Office of the Director. Lectures occur every Tuesday from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. in Lipsett Amphitheater in the Clinical Center building on the NIH campus September through July with exceptions around holidays and major cancer meetings. The lecture schedule is posted on various calendars of events, including at the following link: |
| Author: | Juliet N. Barker, M.B.B.S. (Hons), F.R.A.C.P., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| CIT File ID: | 15451 |
| CIT Live ID: | 8199 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?15451 |