AnnaBPawlowskaMD

Pediatric Hematology & Oncology • Duarte, CA

Professor, Director, Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant program at City of Hope

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Office
Department of Pediatrics
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, CA 91010
Phone+1 626-256-4673

Fax+1 626-301-5415
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Education & Training

University of MinnesotaFellowship, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 1995 - 1998
University of ColoradoResidency, Pediatrics, 1992 - 1995
University of Medical Science PoznanClass of 1985

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1999 - 2025
MN State Medical License 1996 - 2000
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

Clinical Trials

Isotretinoin With or Without Dinutuximab, Aldesleukin, and Sargramostim Following Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Neuroblastoma Start of enrollment: 2001 Oct 18
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Biomarkers in Tumor Tissue Samples From Patients With Newly Diagnosed Neuroblastoma or Ganglioneuroblastoma Start of enrollment: 2000 Nov 06
Recruiting
Collecting and Storing Blood and Brain Tumor Tissue Samples From Children With Brain Tumors Start of enrollment: 2004 Feb 16
Completed
Reduced-Intensity Preparative Regimen for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients With Severe Aplastic Anemia Start of enrollment: 2009 Nov 01
Withdrawn
Not Applicable
Risk-Based Classification System of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Start of enrollment: 2010 Aug 09
Completed
Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Non-Metastatic Extracranial Ewing Sarcoma Start of enrollment: 2010 Nov 22
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Blood Sample Markers of Reproductive Hormones in Assessing Ovarian Reserve in Younger Patients With Newly Diagnosed Lymphomas Start of enrollment: 2013 Jun 17
Active, not recruiting
Whole-Body Radiation Therapy, Systemic Chemotherapy, and High-Dose Chemotherapy Followed By Stem Cell Rescue in Treating Patients With Poor-Risk Ewing Sarcoma Start of enrollment: 2013 Jul 01
Withdrawn
Not Applicable
Busulfan, Cyclophosphamide, and Melphalan or Busulfan and Fludarabine Phosphate Before Donor Hematopoietic Cell Transplant in Treating Younger Patients With Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia Start of enrollment: 2013 Jun 24
Completed
Phase 2
Open Label, Phase II Study to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of Oral Nilotinib in Philadelphia Positive (Ph+) Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Pediatric Patients. Start of enrollment: 2013 Aug 20
Completed
Phase 2
Brentuximab Vedotin or Crizotinib and Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Stage II-IV Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma Start of enrollment: 2013 Nov 13
Active, not recruiting
Phase 2
Haploidentical Transplantation With Pre-Transplant Immunosuppressive Therapy for Patients With Sickle Cell Disease Start of enrollment: 2018 Feb 02
Recruiting
Phase 1
Samotolisib in Treating Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Advanced Solid Tumors, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, or Histiocytic Disorders With TSC or PI3K/MTOR Mutations (A Pediatric MATCH Treatment Trial) Start of enrollment: 2017 Nov 28
Active, not recruiting
Phase 2
Roles: Principal Investigator, Contact
Identifying Predictors of Poor Health-Related Quality-of-Life Among Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors Start of enrollment: 2019 Apr 03
Active, not recruiting
Roles: Principal Investigator, Contact
TMLI and Alemtuzumab for Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease Start of enrollment: 2022 Jul 13
Recruiting
Phase 1
Roles: Principal Investigator, Contact
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Cytomegalovirus Triplex vaccine in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients at high risk for cytomegalovirus complications: evaluation of vaccine safety, ...
La Rosa, C., Park, Y., Yang, D., Zhou, Q., Kaltcheva, T., Karras, N., Cheng, J., Sun, W., Diamond, D., Pawlowska, A.> ;Haematologica. 2024 Feb 29
Efficacy and manageable safety of tagraxofusp in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm: a case series of pediatric and adolescent/young adult patients.
Lasky, J., Mullen, C., Angelucci, E., Vinti, L., Pemmaraju, N., Cuglievan, B., Kheradpour, A., Hijiya, N., Stein, A., Meshinchi, S., Mughal, T., Pawlowska, A.> ;Ejhaem. 2024 Feb 1
3 citations
Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm: a comprehensive review in pediatrics, adolescents, and young adults (AYA) and an update of novel therapies.
Branko Cuglievan, Jeremy Connors, Jiasen He, Sajad Khazal, Sireesha Yedururi, Julia Dai, Sofia Garces, Andres E Quesada, Michael Roth, Miriam Garcia, David McCall, Amb...> ;Leukemia. 2023 Sep 1
Use of monoclonal antibody therapy in hematologic patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19: A retrospective single-center experience.
Al Malki, M. M., Idoroenyi Amanam, Janny Yao, Alfredo Puing, Ni-Chun Tsai, Diana Samuels, Dat Ngo, Stephanie Ho, Haris Ali, Ahmed Aribi, Shukaib Arslan, Andrew Artz, M...> ;Cancer Medicine. 2023 May 1
11 citations
North American Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm Consortium: position on standards of care and areas of need.
Naveen Pemmaraju, Hagop Kantarjian, Kendra Sweet, Eunice Wang, Jayastu Senapati, Nathaniel R Wilson, Marina Konopleva, Arthur E Frankel, Vikas Gupta, Ruben Mesa, Matth...> ;Blood. 2023 Feb 9
8 citations
A diagnostic classifier for pediatric chronic graft-versus-host disease: results of the ABLE/PBMTC 1202 study.
Geoffrey D E Cuvelier, Bernard Ng, Sayeh Abdossamadi, Eneida R Nemecek, Alexis Melton, Carrie L Kitko, Victor A Lewis, Tal Schechter, David A Jacobsohn, Andrew C Harri...> ;Blood Advances. 2023 Jul 25
1 citations
Haploidentical stem cell transplantation for patients with sickle cell disease: current status.
Anna B Pawlowska, Victoria Sun, Joseph Rosenthal> ;Transfusion and Apheresis Science. 2022 Oct 1
2 citations
Clinical and immunologic responses to extracorporeal photopheresis and low-dose IL-2 in patients with steroid refractory chronic graft-versus host disease.
Amandeep Salhotra, Min Talley, Xiwei Wu, Weimin Tsai, Sally Mokhtari, Hanjun Qin, Monzr M Al-Malki, Ibrahim Aldoss, Badri Modi, Paul Koller, Erin Kopp, Eileen Smith, A...> ;Bone Marrow Transplantation. 2022 Jun 1
11 citations
Metabolomic Identification of Alpha-Ketoglutaric Acid Elevation in Pediatric Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease.
Divya Subburaj, Bernard Ng, Amina Kariminia, Sayeh Abdossamadi, Madeline Lauener, Eneida R. Nemecek, Jacob Rozmus, Sandhya Kharbanda, Carrie L. Kitko, Victor Lewis, Ta...> ;Blood. 2021 Sep 17
3 citations
Reactivation of human herpesvirus 6 in pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients.
Anna B. Pawlowska, Nicole Karras, Huaying Liu, Julie DiMundo, Jerry C. Cheng, Weili Sun, Saro H. Armenian, Dongyun Yang, Joycelynne Palmer, Alison D. Bell, Ahmed Tahou...> ;Transplant Infectious Disease. 2021 Feb 1
2 citations
Long-Term Follow-up of High-Dose Chemotherapy with Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation in Children and Young Adults with Metastatic or Relapsed Ewing Sarcoma: A Singl...
Anna B. Pawlowska, Victoria Sun, George T. Calvert, Nicole Karras, Judith K. Sato, Clarke P. Anderson, Jerry C. Cheng, Julie DiMundo, Joseph D. Femino, J'Rick Lu, Dong...> ;Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. 2021 Jan 1
5 citations
Adaptation of an Intervention to Reduce Disparities in School HRQOL for Latino Childhood Cancer Survivors
Sunita K. Patel, Leticia Miranda, Nicole Delgado, Nicolas Barreto, Anne Nolty, Natalie C Kelly, Karla Wilson, Debbie Toomey, Anna B. Pawlowska> ;Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2020 Sep 1
11 citations
Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm in Children.
Yixian Li, Victoria Sun, Weili Sun, Anna B. Pawlowska> ;Hematology/oncology Clinics of North America. 2020 Jun 1
4 citations
Safety of Isavuconazonium Sulfate in Pediatrics Patients With Hematologic Malignancies and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation With Invasive Fungal Infections: A Real W...
J. Ross, Nicole Karras, Bernard Tegtmeier, Chris Yamada, Jason Chen, Weili Sun, Anna B. Pawlowska, Joseph Rosenthal, John A. Zaia, Sanjeet Dadwal> ;Journal of Pediatric Hematology/oncology. 2020 May 1
41 citations
Immune profile differences between chronic GVHD and late acute GVHD: results of the ABLE/PBMTC 1202 studies.
Kirk R. Schultz, Amina Kariminia, Bernard Ng, Sayeh Abdossamadi, Madeline Lauener, Eneida R. Nemecek, Justin T. Wahlstrom, Carrie L. Kitko, Victor Lewis, Tal Schechter...> ;Blood. 2020 Apr 9
48 citations
Benefits and challenges with diagnosing chronic and late acute GVHD in children using the NIH consensus criteria.
Geoffrey D.E. Cuvelier, Eneida R. Nemecek, Justin T. Wahlstrom, Carrie L. Kitko, Victor Lewis, Tal Schechter, David A. Jacobsohn, Andrew C. Harris, Michael A. Pulsiphe...> ;Blood. 2019 Jul 18
40 citations
First pediatric experience of SL-401, a CD123-targeted therapy, in patients with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm: report of three cases.
Weili Sun, Huaying Liu, Young L. Kim, Nicole Karras, Anna B. Pawlowska, Debbie Toomey, Wade Kyono, Paul S. Gaynon, Joseph Rosenthal, Anthony S. Stein> ;Journal of Hematology & Oncology. 2018 May 2
32 citations
HLA Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplant with Pretransplant Immunosuppression for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
Anna B. Pawlowska, Jerry C. Cheng, Nicole Karras, Weili Sun, Leo D. Wang, Alison D. Bell, Lisa Gutierrez, Joseph Rosenthal> ;Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 2018 Jan 1
64 citations
Phase I Trial of Total Marrow and Lymphoid Irradiation Transplantation Conditioning in Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Acute Leukemia.
Anthony S. Stein, Joycelynne Palmer, Ni-Chun Tsai, Monzr M. Al Malki, Ibrahim Aldoss, Haris Ali, Ahmed Aribi, Len Farol, Chatchada Karanes, Samer K. Khaled, An Liu, Ma...> ;Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 2017 Apr 1
11 citations
Pediatric mast cell sarcoma of temporal bone with novel L799F (2395 C>T) KIT mutation, mimicking histiocytic neoplasm
Young S. Kim, Huiqing Wu, Anna B. Pawlowska, Marnelli A. Bautista-Quach, Qin Huang, Karl Gaal, Karen L. Chang> ;The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 2013 Mar 1
32 citations
Transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy in pediatric patients treated with sirolimus and tacrolimus.
Joseph Rosenthal, Anna B. Pawlowska, E. Bolotin, Cheryl Cervantes, Sean Maroongroge, Sandra H. Thomas, Stephen J. Forman> ;Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 2011 Jul 15
21 citations
Hematopoietic cell transplantation with autologous cord blood in patients with severe aplastic anemia: an opportunity to revisit the controversy regarding cord blood b...
Joseph Rosenthal, Ann E. Woolfrey, Anna B. Pawlowska, Sandra H. Thomas, Frederick R. Appelbaum, Stephen J. Forman> ;Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 2011 Jul 1
4 citations
High-dose chemotherapy and stem cell rescue for high-risk Ewing's family of tumors.
Joseph Rosenthal, Anna B. Pawlowska> ;Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy. 2011 Feb 1
19 citations
High-dose therapy with hematopoietic stem cell rescue in patients with poor prognosis Ewing family tumors
Joseph Rosenthal, E. Bolotin, Marianna Shakhnovits, Anna B. Pawlowska, Peter M. Falk, Dajun Qian, C. Oliver, Judith K. Sato, James S. Miser, Stephen J. Forman> ;Bone Marrow Transplantation. 2008 Sep 1
45 citations
In vitro tumor-pulsed or in vivo Flt3 ligand-generated dendritic cells provide protection against acute myelogenous leukemia in nontransplanted or syngeneic bone marro...
Anna B. Pawlowska, Satoshi Hashino, Hilary J. McKenna, Brenda J. Weigel, Patricia A. Taylor, Bruce R. Blazar> ;Blood. 2001 Mar 1
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Abstracts/Posters

Updated Analysis: Novel Machine-Learning-Based Sepsis Prediction Model for Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (Early Sepsis Prediction/Identif...
Anna B Pawlowska, 61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting, Orlando, FL, 12/9/2019