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St.Vincent Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases is one family reaching out to another family. Read on for more about the people behind the treatment, care, love and dedication at the center.
Bassem Razzouk, MD, medical director of the St.Vincent Children's Hospital Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, comes to St.Vincent Children's from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where he has spent the past eight and half years in the Department of Hematology/Oncology as an active clinician and researcher who is recognized nationally and internationally in the field of pediatric leukemia. He received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut School of Medicine in Lebanon, where he also completed his pediatric residency. He also completed his pediatric residency at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse and served one more year there as chief resident; and his Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at St. Jude.
Associate physician Carlos Suarez, MD, joined St.Vincent Children's Hospital Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases on April 1, 2007. Dr. Suarez comes to St.Vincent Children’s from the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico, where he spent the past two years in the Department of Pediatrics and Hematology/ Oncology Pediatrics as a professor and department chair. Before that, he was associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. For nearly 20 years, Dr. Suarez served the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine as director of Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology; director, Continuing Medical Education; director, Quality Assurance; and as a member of the Foster G. McGaw Hospital, Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center Coordinating Council.
Dr. Suarez received his medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico Medical School, and completed his pediatric internship and residency at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Division of Pediatrics in Rochester, MN. He also completed his Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellowships at Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center in New York City.
In August 2007, Jessica Goodman, MD will be joining the St.Vincent Children's Hospital Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases department. Dr. Goodman received her medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Michigan. She completed her fellowship in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the University of Colorado in Denver.
Cheryl Jamison, RN, PNP, has been caring for children with cancer for over 20 years and loving every minute of it. Her extensive clinical experience includes inpatient and outpatient pediatric oncology. Outside the hospital loves spending time with her family.
To maintain its status as a member of the prestigious Children's Oncology Group (COG), the St.Vincent Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases must do a lot of behind-the-scenes work to offer the safest, most effective cancer therapies. While many might not know her name or face, Linda Cheatham works as the data manager of the COG database and plays a significant part in your child's treatment.
Support Services
While the core team of people mentioned previously have the most interaction with you and your child, there are countless others who contribute to your child's treatment from behind the scenes. Their contributions are invaluable. They help us every day, with every patient. And they also care deeply about the care and health of your child.
Known fondly as the "play ladies," Child Life Specialists help reduce children's fears and anxieties about being in the hospital and upcoming procedures. They help children get through tests, procedures, hospitalizations and other "have-to's" with cancer and blood disease therapies.
If your child requires an inpatient hospital stay, you will meet our excellent inpatient nurses. These inpatient nurses become like family.
Radiology, medical imaging, nuclear medicine, the lab, social work and the blood bank also contribute to a patient's care as needed.
Other Treatment Team Specialists
Depending on your child's diagnosis and treatment plan, additional specialists may be part of the team. We have a great team of physician specialists who are highly regarded by our center. Having them available to the treatment team adds to the superior clinical care that children receive here.
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