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Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders appoints director
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Stephen L. Lessnick, MD, PhD, has been named director of the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
Lessnick will lead a team of pediatric researchers dedicated to the understanding of how childhood cancer develops, as well as the quest to improve diagnostic strategies and treatments.
Stephen L. Lessnick
He also will foster collaborations with the clinical team within the division of hematology, oncology, and blood and marrow transplantation at Nationwide Children’s.
“Dr. Lessnick has a proven record of research expertise and leadership, and his guidance will help advance research within the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases and care to patients within the division,” Timothy P. Cripe, MD, PhD, chief of the division of hematology, oncology, and blood and marrow transplantation, said in a press release.
Lessnick — whose research interest is Ewing sarcoma — also is professor of pediatrics in the division of pediatric hematology and oncology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He previously served as director of the Center for Children’s Cancer Research at Huntsman Cancer Institute at University of Utah.