Bona Lab

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Kira Bona, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator
Attending Physician, Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children's
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
 



​Dr. Bona is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and an attending Pediatric Oncologist at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center. Dr. Bona received her MD from the Yale University School of Medicine, and her MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a focus on clinical effectiveness. She completed her pediatrics residency at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center and her pediatric hematology/oncology subspecialty fellowship training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s Hospital. She was a research fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Joanne Wolfe at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s and Dr. Smita Bhatia at University Alabama Birmingham.

​Dr. Bona joined the faculty at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s as a pediatric oncologist in July 2012. In addition to her clinical role treating children with leukemia and lymphoma, Dr. Bona is a physician-scientist with research focused on identifying poverty-associated outcome disparities in childhood cancer and developing interventions to ameliorate these disparities. Dr. Bona has been the recipient of several past awards and honors including a Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a St. Baldrick’s Fellow Award, a Junior Faculty Career Development Award from the National Palliative Care Research Center, and a Charles H. Hood Child Health Research Grant. Her current research is supported by an National Cancer Institute K07 Mentored Career Development Award. 
Puja Umaretiya, MD
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Pediatric Palliative Care Fellow, DFCI/BCH
Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center

​Research Focus: Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in oncology and palliative care outcomes among children with advanced cancer.

Daniel Zheng, MD, MHS
Post-doctoral Fellow
Chief Resident, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Combined Residency Program

Research Focus: Survivorship disparities in pediatric oncology. 

Lenka Ilcisin, MD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Surgical Critical Care Research Fellow, Department of Surgery, Boston Children's
General Surgery Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Research Focus: Poverty, race and ethnicity based disparities in pediatric oncology and surgery with a focus on solid tumors. 
Rahela Aziz-Bose, MD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow, 
Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center

Research Focus: Disparities in pediatric cancer survivorship

​Kristine Karvonen, MD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Child Health Equity Fellow
University of Washington 

Research Focus: Racial and ethnic disparities in social determinants of health and outcomes in pediatric oncology 

Haley Newman
Post-doctoral Fellow
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Research Focus: ​Studying how social determinants of health and genomics influence disease outcomes for children with leukemia. 

​Jamie Shoag, MD MPH
Post-Doc Fellow
Cleveland Clinic Children's, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant

Research focus: My research focuses on using large databases to identify drivers of racial-ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric cancers with a specific focus on hematologic malignancies and bone marrow transplant.  

​Maya Ball-Burack, MD
Resident Physician
Seattle Children's Hospital 

Rossi Fish
Clinical Research Manager
Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CTIP Outcomes Research Group
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​Emily Jones
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Lead-CRC, PediCARE Pilot Feasibility Study, COG AALL1731 and COG ANBL1531
Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CTIP Outcomes Research Group

​Ariana Valenzuela
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Lead-CRC, DFCI 21-005, DFCI 21-091, DFCI 16-001 Embedded HMH Study
Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CTIP Outcomes Research Group

​Alexandria Hawkins
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Lead-CRC, ECHO Protocol, DFCI 20-302 Embedded HMH Study
Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CTIP Outcomes Research Group
Lab Alumni

Safa Salem 
Summer Intern (Ohio State University)
Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Leonardo Nguyen 
Summer Intern (Boston College)
Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Amy Lin
Summer Intern (Wellesley University)
Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

​Julia Kavanagh
Clinical Research Coordinator
Lead-CRC, ECHO Sociodemographic Banking Study
Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CTIP Hematologic Malignancies Research Group

​Victoria Koch
Project Manager, DFCI 16001
Lead CRC DFCI 16001 Embedded HMH study
Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CTIP Hematologic Malignancies Research Group

Anna Seo
Clinical Research Coordinator
Lead-CRC PediCARE Pilot Feasibility Study
Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
CTIP Hematologic Malignancies Research Group

Emily Risa Schwartz, BA, MS
Harvard Masters in Bioethics Student

Rebecca Silverman
Summer Intern (Wash U)
Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute