Microarray in leukemia diagnosis (MALDIVE)

Ayalew Tefferi, MD

Professor of Hematology and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Dr. Ayalew Tefferi completed his medical school education at the University of Athens in Athens, Greece. He received his Hematology training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN before joining the staff at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Division of Hematology in the Department of Medicine. He is currently a full professor in Hematology and Internal Medicine. Dr. Tefferi is primarily engaged in direct patient care. His clinical and laboratory interests focus on myeloid disorders including olycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, myelofibrosis, chronic myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, acute leukemia, and the atypical myeloproliferative disorders. His academic and research achievements include over 800 publications. Dr. Tefferi serves as an associate or section editor for the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Leukemia, American Journal of Hematology, and European Journal of Hematology. He also participates in the editorial board of several journals including Blood, Cancer, Leukemia Research, Acta Haematologica, and Leukemia and Lymphoma. Dr. Tefferi has given more than 500 worldwide invited lectureships and serves as faculty for the annual Hematology and Oncology Board review courses at George Washington University in Washington DC, Harvard in Boston MA, and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston TX.
 

Christine J Harrison, PhD FRCPath

Professor of Cancer Cytogenetics
Leukaemia Research Cytogenetics Group, Cancer Sciences Division, University of Southampton

Dr. Harrison is currently Professor of Childhood Cancer Cytogenetics and Director, Leukaemia Research Fund Cytogenetics Group, at Newcastle University. She has recently relocated from the University of Southampton, UK. Prior to that, Dr. Harrison was Senior Lecturer, as well as Director, and Head of the Cytogenetics Group in the Department of Haematology at the Royal Free and University College Medical School, London. She went to UCL from Christie Hospital in Manchester, UK, where she was the Director of Oncology Cytogenetics at the Paterson Institute of Cancer Research. Dr. Harrison’s research and academic accomplishments include over 140 publications. She earned her PhD in Cell Biology at the University of Manchester, UK.
 

Wendy Chung MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Division of Molecular Genetics, Department of Pediatrics and Medicine

Dr. Chung received a B.A. in biochemistry and economics from Cornell University, a Ph.D. in genetics from The Rockefeller University, and an M.D. in medicine from Cornell University Medical College. She was a resident in pediatrics and a fellow in medical genetics and molecular genetics at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. She is board certified in clinical genetics and molecular genetics. Her current academic appointments are: Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine; director of clinical genetics; director of clinical oncogenetics; fellowship director of cyotgenetics and molecular genetics; Division of Molecular Genetics, Columbia University. Dr. Chung is the recipient of the American Academy of Pediatrics Young Investigator Award and the Doris Duke career development award. She is a reviewer for several journals and is on the medical advisory boards of the Simons Foundation and Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation.
 

James Weisberger, MD

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Medicine, New York Medical College;
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, GenPath

Dr. Weisberger has served as assistant professor of pathology and medicine at New York Medical College and attending physician at Westchester Medical Center. He was chief resident in pathology at Westchester Medical Center and completed a fellowship in hematopathology at the New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center under Dr. Daniel Knowles. He earned both a B.S. and an M.S. from Stanford University. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Weisberger continues to teach at the New York Medical College as assistant professor of Pathology and Medicine. Dr. Weisberger is board certified in internal medicine, hematopathology, and anatomic and clinical pathology.
 

Pauline Brenholz, MD, FACMG

Medical Director, Cytogenetics, GenPath

Dr. Brenholz brings over 22 years of experience in cancer cytogenetics to GenPath. Prior to her role as Medical Director of Cytogenetics, Dr. Brenholz divided her professional time between cytogenetics and clinical genetics (initially as Associate Director of Genetic Services at Westchester County Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, then as Director of Genetics at Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, NJ and then in private practice in medical genetics in White Plains, NY).  Dr. Brenholz completed her clinical and research fellowship in medical genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. She also completed her medical education at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and her pediatric internship and residency at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Bronx, NY. Dr. Brenholz is board certified in pediatrics, clinical genetics and clinical cytogenetics. She is a Founding Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics.