The Hematology/Oncology Division provides state-of-the-art care to children with blood disorders and cancer. The division serves all of San Diego and Imperial Counties, and patients in South Riverside County.

Through collaborations with the UCSD Moores Cancer Center, which has achieved the National Cancer Institute designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Division of Pediatric Hema­tology/ Oncology is also devoted to basic and translational cancer research, experimental therapeutics and medical education.

Division Chief

jj.jpgWilliam D. Roberts, M.D.

2008 Visiting Professor, Danny Thomas Lecture Series, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, The St. Jude/RCHSD Alliance: An early success in international outreach in Tijuana, Mexico, Nashville, TN, October 2008

Presenter, Approach to Childhood Anemia, XXVI Binational Pediatric Conference, Pediatric College of Baja California, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, February 2008

Features

News

Moore's Cancer Center Awards $100K to Dr. Durden, Dr. Frazer, and Dr. Crawford from Pediatrics for Early Clinical Trials.

Dr. Roberts on The Power of Collaboration
Dr. Roberts is an active proponent of collaborative medicine to caring and curing kids – especially kids with cancer.

Durden joins Pediatrics as New Vice Chair of Research

Donald Durden, M.D., Ph.D. – an internationally acclaimed physician scientist known for his work on childhood cancer research and drug therapies - has been appointed the new Vice-Chair of Research in the Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego.

 

Alice Yu, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatric hematology/oncology
New therapy improves chances of living disease-free with difficult-to-treat childhood cancer (Neuroblastoma)