Contact Information
Call us at: (614) 722-5450
Fax us at: (614) 722-2899
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)
Learn more about Samir Kahwash
Biography
Samir Kahwash, MD, is Vice-Chair for Education in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Director of Hematopathology Services, a Pathologist in the Sections of Clinical and Anatomic Pathology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Pathology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is the Program Director of pediatric pathology fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His clinical interests include pediatric lymphomas and leukemias, and pathology education. He is a co-investigator in the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Reference Lab for the Study of Pediatric ALL. He is a reviewer of COG Phase III trial of (myelotarg) treatment for AML in children and young adults (AAML0531) and also a reviewer for COG AAML1031. He is coinvestigator for neuroblastoma pathology review (COG 5285061) and reviewer for major COG clinical trials on ALL, APL and JMML.
Academic and Clinical Areas
Pathology Fellowship
Program Director
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Vice Chair
Anatomic Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Training
Clinical Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Hematopathology
Primary Department
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Primary Section
Anatomic Pathology
Awards, Honors & Organizations
Certificate of Merit in Recognition of Outstanding Service and Years of Distinguished Contributions to RISE Committee, American Society of Clinical Pathology, 2017 Award of Service in Education, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2014 Syrian Medical Association Recognition Award for Outstanding Contributions to the 6th Annual Hosn Medical Conference, 2010 Certificate of Recognition Award for Dedicated Service, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Department of Laboratory Medicine “2007 Educator of the Year”, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Recognition Award: Awarded for Outstanding Commitment and Contribution to Education of Residents and Fellows at the Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, 2004 Certificate of Academic Excellence; Awarded for Ranking 8th Nationwide in the General (Pre-college) Examination - Science Branch, Ministry of Education, Syria, 1977 Listed, Guide to America’s Top Pathologists Chapter President, National Arab American Medical Association, 2007 - 2011 Member, National Arab American Medical Association, 2005 - Present Member, Society of Pediatric Pathology, 1993 - Present Member, Central Ohio Society of Pathologists, 1993 - Present Fellow, College of American Pathologists, 1992 - Present Member, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1990 - Present Academic Merit Scholarship to College/Medical School Combined Program, Damascus University, 1977 - 1983 Member, Consumers Research Council of America
Research
Publications
Guinipero T, Kahwash SB. Morphologic findings often provide guidance when immunophenotypic data overlap: a case of AML with cup-shaped nuclei. Blood. 2022 Sep 22; 140: 1448.
Wong YP, Buckley K, Iwenofu OH, Singhi A, Kahwash SB, Arnold CA, Tan GC, Arnold MA. Selective Immunoreactivity for WT1 Carboxy-Terminus Distinguishes Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor From its Histologic Mimics. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2022 Apr 29; 10935266221088151.
Pollard JA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing R, Brown P, Fox E, Choi J, Fisher B, Hirsch B, Kahwash S, Getz K, Levine J, Brodersen LE, Loken MR, Raimondi S, Tarlock K, Wood A, Sung L, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Meshinchi S, Aplenc R. Sorafenib in Combination With Standard Chemotherapy for Children With High Allelic Ratio FLT3/ITD+ Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Protocol AAML1031. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Mar 29; JCO2101612.
DeMarsh SJ, Kendel NE, Bacha C, Ardoin SP, Kahwash S, Rose MJ. Storming the castle: A case report of multi-system dysregulation in a child with Castleman disease. Clin Case Rep. 2022 Feb; 10: e05491.
Getz KD, Alonzo TA, Sung L, Meshinchi S, Gerbing RB, Raimondi S, Hirsch B, Loken M, Brodersen LE, Kahwash S, Choi J, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Aplenc R. Cytarabine dose reduction in patients with low-risk acute myeloid leukemia: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Jan; 69: e29313.
Kutny MA, Alonzo TA, Abla O, Rajpurkar M, Gerbing RB, Wang YC, Hirsch BA, Raimondi S, Kahwash S, Hardy KK, Hardy S, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS, Kolb EA, Feusner JH, Gregory J Jr. Assessment of Arsenic Trioxide and All-trans Retinoic Acid for the Treatment of Pediatric Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group AAML1331 Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Nov 11;
Pyle-Eilola AL, Kahwash SB, Dennis G, Hubbard N, Leber A. The Brief Case: A 6-Year-Old with Fever, Abdominal Pain, and Recent Travel to Sierra Leone. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 Oct 19; 59: e0053421.
Treinen C, Abu-Arja MH, Kahwash SB, Rangarajan HG, Willen F, Audino AN. A Novel Case of Concurrent T-cell and Early T-cell Precursor Lymphoblastic Lymphoma in an Adolescent Female. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2021 Jul 23;
Balakrishna JP, Kahwash SB. Unusual red blood cell inclusions in an intravenous drug abuse patient. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2021 May; 88: 102509.
Liu H, Guinipero TL, Schieffer KM, Carter C, Colace S, Leonard JR, Orr BA, Kahwash SB, Brennan PJ, Fitch JR, Kelly B, Magrini VJ, White P, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Cottrell CE, Boué DR. De novo primary central nervous system pure erythroid leukemia/sarcoma with t(1;16)(p31;q24) NFIA/CBFA2T3 translocation. Haematologica. 2020 Apr; 105: e194-e197.
Orgel E, Alexander TB, Wood BL, Kahwash SB, Devidas M, Dai Y, Alonzo TA, Mullighan CG, Inaba H, Hunger SP, Raetz EA, Gamis AS, Rabin KR, Carroll AJ 3rd, Heerema NA, Berman JN, Woods WG, Loh ML, Zweidler-McKay PA, Horan JT, Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force.. Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia: A cohort and consensus research strategy from the Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force. Cancer. 2020 Feb 1; 126: 593-601.
Belsky JA, Audino AN, Kahwash SB. Separating Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Involving Marrow From Lymphoblastic Leukemia: It is Time to Update the CutOff Number. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2019 Nov; 41: 658-659.
Carroll AJ, Shago M, Mikhail FM, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Maloney KW, Mattano LA Jr, Larsen EC, Gastier-Foster J, Stonerock E, Ell D, Kahwash S, Devidas M, Harvey RC, Chen IL, Willman CL, Hunger SP, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Rao KW, Heerema NA. Masked hypodiploidy: Hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) mimicking hyperdiploid ALL in children: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Cancer Genet. 2019 Jul 30; 238: 62-68.
McNeer JL, Devidas M, Dai Y, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Gastier-Foster JM, Kahwash SB, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Larsen E, Maloney KW, Mattano L, Winick NJ, Schultz KR, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Loh ML, Raetz EA. Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Does Not Improve the Poor Outcome of Children With Hypodiploid Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From Children's Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Apr 1; 37: 780-789.
Rose GS, Arnold CA, Badizadegan K, Carter CM, Conces MR, Kahwash SB, Nicol KK, Arnold MA. Cytoplasmic Fibrillar Aggregates in Gallbladder Epithelium Are a Frequent Mimic of Cystoisospora in Pediatric Cholecystectomy Specimens. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2019 Apr 10;
Woods GM, Pillay Smiley N, Stanek J, Kahwash S, Kerlin BA, O'Brien SH. Variation in Platelet Delta Granules Over Time in Young Women Undergoing Evaluation for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2019 Mar-Apr; 22: 123-127.
Dvorak CC, Satwani P, Stieglitz E, Cairo MS, Dang H, Pei Q, Gao Y, Wall D, Mazor T, Olshen AB, Parker JS, Kahwash S, Hirsch B, Raimondi S, Patel N, Skeens M, Cooper T, Mehta PA, Grupp SA, Loh ML. Disease burden and conditioning regimens in ASCT1221, a randomized phase II trial in children with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia: A Children's Oncology Group study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Jul; 65: e27034.
Jacobson AE, Kahwash SB, Chawla A. Refractory cytopenias secondary to copper deficiency in children receiving exclusive jejunal nutrition. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Nov; 64:
Guest EM, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing RB, Wang YJ, Kahwash SB, Heerema-McKenney A, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS. Gemtuzumab ozogamicin in infants with AML: results from the Children's Oncology Group trials AAML03P1 and AAML0531. Blood. 2017 Aug 17; 130: 943-945.
Tarlock K, Alonzo TA, Loken MR, Gerbing RB, Ries RE, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Kahwash SB, McKenney A, Kolb EA, Gamis AS, Meshinchi S. Disease Characteristics and Prognostic Implications of Cell-Surface FLT3 Receptor (CD135) Expression in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report from the Children's Oncology Group. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jul 15; 23: 3649-3656.
Conces M, Abu-Arja R, Reed S, Rangarajan HG, Guinipero TL, Loken MR, Brodersen LE, Kahwash SB. Acute Myeloid Leukemia with RAM Immunophenotype: A Pediatric Case with Unusual Morphologic Features. Hematol Rep. 2017 Jun 1; 9: 7057.
Welch JJG, Schwartz CL, Higman M, Chen L, Buxton A, Kanakry JA, Kahwash SB, Hutchison RE, Friedman DL, Ambinder RF. Epstein-Barr virus DNA in serum as an early prognostic marker in children and adolescents with Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2017 Apr 25; 1: 681-684.
Chen RW, Li H, Bernstein SH, Kahwash S, Rimsza LM, Forman SJ, Constine L, Shea TC, Cashen AF, Blum KA, Fenske TS, Barr PM, Phillips T, Leblanc M, Fisher RI, Cheson BD, Smith SM, Faham M, Wilkins J, Leonard JP, Kahl BS, Friedberg JW. RB but not R-HCVAD is a feasible induction regimen prior to auto-HCT in frontline MCL: results of SWOG Study S1106. Br J Haematol. 2017 Mar; 176: 759-769.
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Education
Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 02/15/1994
Board Certifications
Anatomic Pathology Clinical Pathology Hematology Pediatric Pathology
Fellowship
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Date Completed: 06/30/1993
Fellowship
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1992
Residency
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1991
Internship
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 12/31/1983
Medical School
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 08/31/1983
Professional Experience
2014 - Present The Ohio State University, Professor – Clinical2000 - 2014 The Ohio State University, Associate Professor – Clinical
Contact Information
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Call us at: (614) 722-5450
Fax us at: (614) 722-2899
700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)
Contact Information
Call us at: (614) 722-5450
Fax us at: (614) 722-2899
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)
Learn more about Samir Kahwash
Biography
Samir Kahwash, MD, is Vice-Chair for Education in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Director of Hematopathology Services, a Pathologist in the Sections of Clinical and Anatomic Pathology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Pathology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is the Program Director of pediatric pathology fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His clinical interests include pediatric lymphomas and leukemias, and pathology education. He is a co-investigator in the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Reference Lab for the Study of Pediatric ALL. He is a reviewer of COG Phase III trial of (myelotarg) treatment for AML in children and young adults (AAML0531) and also a reviewer for COG AAML1031. He is coinvestigator for neuroblastoma pathology review (COG 5285061) and reviewer for major COG clinical trials on ALL, APL and JMML.
Academic and Clinical Areas
Pathology Fellowship
Program Director
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Vice Chair
Anatomic Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Training
Clinical Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Hematopathology
Primary Department
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Primary Section
Anatomic Pathology
Awards, Honors & Organizations
Certificate of Merit in Recognition of Outstanding Service and Years of Distinguished Contributions to RISE Committee, American Society of Clinical Pathology, 2017 Award of Service in Education, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2014 Syrian Medical Association Recognition Award for Outstanding Contributions to the 6th Annual Hosn Medical Conference, 2010 Certificate of Recognition Award for Dedicated Service, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Department of Laboratory Medicine “2007 Educator of the Year”, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Recognition Award: Awarded for Outstanding Commitment and Contribution to Education of Residents and Fellows at the Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, 2004 Certificate of Academic Excellence; Awarded for Ranking 8th Nationwide in the General (Pre-college) Examination - Science Branch, Ministry of Education, Syria, 1977 Listed, Guide to America’s Top Pathologists Chapter President, National Arab American Medical Association, 2007 - 2011 Member, National Arab American Medical Association, 2005 - Present Member, Society of Pediatric Pathology, 1993 - Present Member, Central Ohio Society of Pathologists, 1993 - Present Fellow, College of American Pathologists, 1992 - Present Member, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1990 - Present Academic Merit Scholarship to College/Medical School Combined Program, Damascus University, 1977 - 1983 Member, Consumers Research Council of America
Research
Publications
Guinipero T, Kahwash SB. Morphologic findings often provide guidance when immunophenotypic data overlap: a case of AML with cup-shaped nuclei. Blood. 2022 Sep 22; 140: 1448.
Wong YP, Buckley K, Iwenofu OH, Singhi A, Kahwash SB, Arnold CA, Tan GC, Arnold MA. Selective Immunoreactivity for WT1 Carboxy-Terminus Distinguishes Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor From its Histologic Mimics. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2022 Apr 29; 10935266221088151.
Pollard JA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing R, Brown P, Fox E, Choi J, Fisher B, Hirsch B, Kahwash S, Getz K, Levine J, Brodersen LE, Loken MR, Raimondi S, Tarlock K, Wood A, Sung L, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Meshinchi S, Aplenc R. Sorafenib in Combination With Standard Chemotherapy for Children With High Allelic Ratio FLT3/ITD+ Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Protocol AAML1031. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Mar 29; JCO2101612.
DeMarsh SJ, Kendel NE, Bacha C, Ardoin SP, Kahwash S, Rose MJ. Storming the castle: A case report of multi-system dysregulation in a child with Castleman disease. Clin Case Rep. 2022 Feb; 10: e05491.
Getz KD, Alonzo TA, Sung L, Meshinchi S, Gerbing RB, Raimondi S, Hirsch B, Loken M, Brodersen LE, Kahwash S, Choi J, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Aplenc R. Cytarabine dose reduction in patients with low-risk acute myeloid leukemia: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Jan; 69: e29313.
Kutny MA, Alonzo TA, Abla O, Rajpurkar M, Gerbing RB, Wang YC, Hirsch BA, Raimondi S, Kahwash S, Hardy KK, Hardy S, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS, Kolb EA, Feusner JH, Gregory J Jr. Assessment of Arsenic Trioxide and All-trans Retinoic Acid for the Treatment of Pediatric Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group AAML1331 Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Nov 11;
Pyle-Eilola AL, Kahwash SB, Dennis G, Hubbard N, Leber A. The Brief Case: A 6-Year-Old with Fever, Abdominal Pain, and Recent Travel to Sierra Leone. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 Oct 19; 59: e0053421.
Treinen C, Abu-Arja MH, Kahwash SB, Rangarajan HG, Willen F, Audino AN. A Novel Case of Concurrent T-cell and Early T-cell Precursor Lymphoblastic Lymphoma in an Adolescent Female. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2021 Jul 23;
Balakrishna JP, Kahwash SB. Unusual red blood cell inclusions in an intravenous drug abuse patient. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2021 May; 88: 102509.
Liu H, Guinipero TL, Schieffer KM, Carter C, Colace S, Leonard JR, Orr BA, Kahwash SB, Brennan PJ, Fitch JR, Kelly B, Magrini VJ, White P, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Cottrell CE, Boué DR. De novo primary central nervous system pure erythroid leukemia/sarcoma with t(1;16)(p31;q24) NFIA/CBFA2T3 translocation. Haematologica. 2020 Apr; 105: e194-e197.
Orgel E, Alexander TB, Wood BL, Kahwash SB, Devidas M, Dai Y, Alonzo TA, Mullighan CG, Inaba H, Hunger SP, Raetz EA, Gamis AS, Rabin KR, Carroll AJ 3rd, Heerema NA, Berman JN, Woods WG, Loh ML, Zweidler-McKay PA, Horan JT, Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force.. Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia: A cohort and consensus research strategy from the Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force. Cancer. 2020 Feb 1; 126: 593-601.
Belsky JA, Audino AN, Kahwash SB. Separating Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Involving Marrow From Lymphoblastic Leukemia: It is Time to Update the CutOff Number. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2019 Nov; 41: 658-659.
Carroll AJ, Shago M, Mikhail FM, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Maloney KW, Mattano LA Jr, Larsen EC, Gastier-Foster J, Stonerock E, Ell D, Kahwash S, Devidas M, Harvey RC, Chen IL, Willman CL, Hunger SP, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Rao KW, Heerema NA. Masked hypodiploidy: Hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) mimicking hyperdiploid ALL in children: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Cancer Genet. 2019 Jul 30; 238: 62-68.
McNeer JL, Devidas M, Dai Y, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Gastier-Foster JM, Kahwash SB, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Larsen E, Maloney KW, Mattano L, Winick NJ, Schultz KR, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Loh ML, Raetz EA. Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Does Not Improve the Poor Outcome of Children With Hypodiploid Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From Children's Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Apr 1; 37: 780-789.
Rose GS, Arnold CA, Badizadegan K, Carter CM, Conces MR, Kahwash SB, Nicol KK, Arnold MA. Cytoplasmic Fibrillar Aggregates in Gallbladder Epithelium Are a Frequent Mimic of Cystoisospora in Pediatric Cholecystectomy Specimens. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2019 Apr 10;
Woods GM, Pillay Smiley N, Stanek J, Kahwash S, Kerlin BA, O'Brien SH. Variation in Platelet Delta Granules Over Time in Young Women Undergoing Evaluation for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2019 Mar-Apr; 22: 123-127.
Dvorak CC, Satwani P, Stieglitz E, Cairo MS, Dang H, Pei Q, Gao Y, Wall D, Mazor T, Olshen AB, Parker JS, Kahwash S, Hirsch B, Raimondi S, Patel N, Skeens M, Cooper T, Mehta PA, Grupp SA, Loh ML. Disease burden and conditioning regimens in ASCT1221, a randomized phase II trial in children with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia: A Children's Oncology Group study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Jul; 65: e27034.
Jacobson AE, Kahwash SB, Chawla A. Refractory cytopenias secondary to copper deficiency in children receiving exclusive jejunal nutrition. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Nov; 64:
Guest EM, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing RB, Wang YJ, Kahwash SB, Heerema-McKenney A, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS. Gemtuzumab ozogamicin in infants with AML: results from the Children's Oncology Group trials AAML03P1 and AAML0531. Blood. 2017 Aug 17; 130: 943-945.
Tarlock K, Alonzo TA, Loken MR, Gerbing RB, Ries RE, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Kahwash SB, McKenney A, Kolb EA, Gamis AS, Meshinchi S. Disease Characteristics and Prognostic Implications of Cell-Surface FLT3 Receptor (CD135) Expression in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report from the Children's Oncology Group. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jul 15; 23: 3649-3656.
Conces M, Abu-Arja R, Reed S, Rangarajan HG, Guinipero TL, Loken MR, Brodersen LE, Kahwash SB. Acute Myeloid Leukemia with RAM Immunophenotype: A Pediatric Case with Unusual Morphologic Features. Hematol Rep. 2017 Jun 1; 9: 7057.
Welch JJG, Schwartz CL, Higman M, Chen L, Buxton A, Kanakry JA, Kahwash SB, Hutchison RE, Friedman DL, Ambinder RF. Epstein-Barr virus DNA in serum as an early prognostic marker in children and adolescents with Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2017 Apr 25; 1: 681-684.
Chen RW, Li H, Bernstein SH, Kahwash S, Rimsza LM, Forman SJ, Constine L, Shea TC, Cashen AF, Blum KA, Fenske TS, Barr PM, Phillips T, Leblanc M, Fisher RI, Cheson BD, Smith SM, Faham M, Wilkins J, Leonard JP, Kahl BS, Friedberg JW. RB but not R-HCVAD is a feasible induction regimen prior to auto-HCT in frontline MCL: results of SWOG Study S1106. Br J Haematol. 2017 Mar; 176: 759-769.
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Education
Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 02/15/1994
Board Certifications
Anatomic Pathology Clinical Pathology Hematology Pediatric Pathology
Fellowship
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Date Completed: 06/30/1993
Fellowship
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1992
Residency
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1991
Internship
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 12/31/1983
Medical School
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 08/31/1983
Professional Experience
2014 - Present The Ohio State University, Professor – Clinical2000 - 2014 The Ohio State University, Associate Professor – Clinical
Contact Information
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Call us at: (614) 722-5450
Fax us at: (614) 722-2899
700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)
Contact Information
Call us at: (614) 722-5450
Fax us at: (614) 722-2899
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)
Learn more about Samir Kahwash
Contact Information
- Call us at:
- (614) 722-5450
- Fax us at:
- (614) 722-2899
- Pathology & Laboratory Medicine700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)
Learn more about Samir Kahwash
Biography
Samir Kahwash, MD, is Vice-Chair for Education in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Director of Hematopathology Services, a Pathologist in the Sections of Clinical and Anatomic Pathology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Pathology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is the Program Director of pediatric pathology fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His clinical interests include pediatric lymphomas and leukemias, and pathology education. He is a co-investigator in the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Reference Lab for the Study of Pediatric ALL. He is a reviewer of COG Phase III trial of (myelotarg) treatment for AML in children and young adults (AAML0531) and also a reviewer for COG AAML1031. He is coinvestigator for neuroblastoma pathology review (COG 5285061) and reviewer for major COG clinical trials on ALL, APL and JMML.
Biography
Samir Kahwash, MD, is Vice-Chair for Education in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Director of Hematopathology Services, a Pathologist in the Sections of Clinical and Anatomic Pathology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Pathology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is the Program Director of pediatric pathology fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His clinical interests include pediatric lymphomas and leukemias, and pathology education. He is a co-investigator in the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Reference Lab for the Study of Pediatric ALL. He is a reviewer of COG Phase III trial of (myelotarg) treatment for AML in children and young adults (AAML0531) and also a reviewer for COG AAML1031. He is coinvestigator for neuroblastoma pathology review (COG 5285061) and reviewer for major COG clinical trials on ALL, APL and JMML.
Biography
Samir Kahwash, MD, is Vice-Chair for Education in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Director of Hematopathology Services, a Pathologist in the Sections of Clinical and Anatomic Pathology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Pathology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is the Program Director of pediatric pathology fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His clinical interests include pediatric lymphomas and leukemias, and pathology education. He is a co-investigator in the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Reference Lab for the Study of Pediatric ALL. He is a reviewer of COG Phase III trial of (myelotarg) treatment for AML in children and young adults (AAML0531) and also a reviewer for COG AAML1031. He is coinvestigator for neuroblastoma pathology review (COG 5285061) and reviewer for major COG clinical trials on ALL, APL and JMML.
Samir Kahwash, MD, is Vice-Chair for Education in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Director of Hematopathology Services, a Pathologist in the Sections of Clinical and Anatomic Pathology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Pathology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is the Program Director of pediatric pathology fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His clinical interests include pediatric lymphomas and leukemias, and pathology education. He is a co-investigator in the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Reference Lab for the Study of Pediatric ALL. He is a reviewer of COG Phase III trial of (myelotarg) treatment for AML in children and young adults (AAML0531) and also a reviewer for COG AAML1031. He is coinvestigator for neuroblastoma pathology review (COG 5285061) and reviewer for major COG clinical trials on ALL, APL and JMML.
Samir Kahwash, MD, is Vice-Chair for Education in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Director of Hematopathology Services, a Pathologist in the Sections of Clinical and Anatomic Pathology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Pathology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is the Program Director of pediatric pathology fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
His clinical interests include pediatric lymphomas and leukemias, and pathology education. He is a co-investigator in the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Reference Lab for the Study of Pediatric ALL. He is a reviewer of COG Phase III trial of (myelotarg) treatment for AML in children and young adults (AAML0531) and also a reviewer for COG AAML1031. He is coinvestigator for neuroblastoma pathology review (COG 5285061) and reviewer for major COG clinical trials on ALL, APL and JMML.
Academic and Clinical Areas
Pathology Fellowship
Program Director
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Vice Chair
Anatomic Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Training
Clinical Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Hematopathology
Primary Department
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Primary Section
Anatomic Pathology
Academic and Clinical Areas
Pathology Fellowship
Program Director
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Vice Chair
Anatomic Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Training
Clinical Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Hematopathology
Primary Department
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Primary Section
Anatomic Pathology
Academic and Clinical Areas
Pathology Fellowship
Program Director
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Vice Chair
Anatomic Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Training
Clinical Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Hematopathology
Primary Department
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Primary Section
Anatomic Pathology
Pathology Fellowship
Program Director
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Vice Chair
Anatomic Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Training
Clinical Pathology
Vice Chair, Education; Director, Hematopathology
Primary Department
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Primary Section
Anatomic Pathology
- Pathology Fellowship
- Program Director
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Vice Chair
- Anatomic Pathology
- Vice Chair, Education; Director, Pediatric Pathology Fellowship Training
- Clinical Pathology
- Vice Chair, Education; Director, Hematopathology
- Primary Department
- Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Primary Section
- Anatomic Pathology
Awards, Honors & Organizations
Certificate of Merit in Recognition of Outstanding Service and Years of Distinguished Contributions to RISE Committee, American Society of Clinical Pathology, 2017 Award of Service in Education, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2014 Syrian Medical Association Recognition Award for Outstanding Contributions to the 6th Annual Hosn Medical Conference, 2010 Certificate of Recognition Award for Dedicated Service, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Department of Laboratory Medicine “2007 Educator of the Year”, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Recognition Award: Awarded for Outstanding Commitment and Contribution to Education of Residents and Fellows at the Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, 2004 Certificate of Academic Excellence; Awarded for Ranking 8th Nationwide in the General (Pre-college) Examination - Science Branch, Ministry of Education, Syria, 1977 Listed, Guide to America’s Top Pathologists Chapter President, National Arab American Medical Association, 2007 - 2011 Member, National Arab American Medical Association, 2005 - Present Member, Society of Pediatric Pathology, 1993 - Present Member, Central Ohio Society of Pathologists, 1993 - Present Fellow, College of American Pathologists, 1992 - Present Member, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1990 - Present Academic Merit Scholarship to College/Medical School Combined Program, Damascus University, 1977 - 1983 Member, Consumers Research Council of America
Awards, Honors & Organizations
Certificate of Merit in Recognition of Outstanding Service and Years of Distinguished Contributions to RISE Committee, American Society of Clinical Pathology, 2017 Award of Service in Education, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2014 Syrian Medical Association Recognition Award for Outstanding Contributions to the 6th Annual Hosn Medical Conference, 2010 Certificate of Recognition Award for Dedicated Service, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Department of Laboratory Medicine “2007 Educator of the Year”, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Recognition Award: Awarded for Outstanding Commitment and Contribution to Education of Residents and Fellows at the Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, 2004 Certificate of Academic Excellence; Awarded for Ranking 8th Nationwide in the General (Pre-college) Examination - Science Branch, Ministry of Education, Syria, 1977 Listed, Guide to America’s Top Pathologists Chapter President, National Arab American Medical Association, 2007 - 2011 Member, National Arab American Medical Association, 2005 - Present Member, Society of Pediatric Pathology, 1993 - Present Member, Central Ohio Society of Pathologists, 1993 - Present Fellow, College of American Pathologists, 1992 - Present Member, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1990 - Present Academic Merit Scholarship to College/Medical School Combined Program, Damascus University, 1977 - 1983 Member, Consumers Research Council of America
Awards, Honors & Organizations
Certificate of Merit in Recognition of Outstanding Service and Years of Distinguished Contributions to RISE Committee, American Society of Clinical Pathology, 2017 Award of Service in Education, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2014 Syrian Medical Association Recognition Award for Outstanding Contributions to the 6th Annual Hosn Medical Conference, 2010 Certificate of Recognition Award for Dedicated Service, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Department of Laboratory Medicine “2007 Educator of the Year”, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Recognition Award: Awarded for Outstanding Commitment and Contribution to Education of Residents and Fellows at the Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, 2004 Certificate of Academic Excellence; Awarded for Ranking 8th Nationwide in the General (Pre-college) Examination - Science Branch, Ministry of Education, Syria, 1977 Listed, Guide to America’s Top Pathologists Chapter President, National Arab American Medical Association, 2007 - 2011 Member, National Arab American Medical Association, 2005 - Present Member, Society of Pediatric Pathology, 1993 - Present Member, Central Ohio Society of Pathologists, 1993 - Present Fellow, College of American Pathologists, 1992 - Present Member, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1990 - Present Academic Merit Scholarship to College/Medical School Combined Program, Damascus University, 1977 - 1983 Member, Consumers Research Council of America
Certificate of Merit in Recognition of Outstanding Service and Years of Distinguished Contributions to RISE Committee, American Society of Clinical Pathology, 2017 Award of Service in Education, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2014 Syrian Medical Association Recognition Award for Outstanding Contributions to the 6th Annual Hosn Medical Conference, 2010 Certificate of Recognition Award for Dedicated Service, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Department of Laboratory Medicine “2007 Educator of the Year”, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007 Recognition Award: Awarded for Outstanding Commitment and Contribution to Education of Residents and Fellows at the Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, 2004 Certificate of Academic Excellence; Awarded for Ranking 8th Nationwide in the General (Pre-college) Examination - Science Branch, Ministry of Education, Syria, 1977 Listed, Guide to America’s Top Pathologists Chapter President, National Arab American Medical Association, 2007 - 2011 Member, National Arab American Medical Association, 2005 - Present Member, Society of Pediatric Pathology, 1993 - Present Member, Central Ohio Society of Pathologists, 1993 - Present Fellow, College of American Pathologists, 1992 - Present Member, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1990 - Present Academic Merit Scholarship to College/Medical School Combined Program, Damascus University, 1977 - 1983 Member, Consumers Research Council of America
- Certificate of Merit in Recognition of Outstanding Service and Years of Distinguished Contributions to RISE Committee, American Society of Clinical Pathology, 2017
- Award of Service in Education, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2014
- Syrian Medical Association Recognition Award for Outstanding Contributions to the 6th Annual Hosn Medical Conference, 2010
- Certificate of Recognition Award for Dedicated Service, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007
- Department of Laboratory Medicine “2007 Educator of the Year”, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, 2007
- Recognition Award: Awarded for Outstanding Commitment and Contribution to Education of Residents and Fellows at the Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University, 2004
- Certificate of Academic Excellence; Awarded for Ranking 8th Nationwide in the General (Pre-college) Examination - Science Branch, Ministry of Education, Syria, 1977
- Listed, Guide to America’s Top Pathologists
- Chapter President, National Arab American Medical Association, 2007 - 2011
- Member, National Arab American Medical Association, 2005 - Present
- Member, Society of Pediatric Pathology, 1993 - Present
- Member, Central Ohio Society of Pathologists, 1993 - Present
- Fellow, College of American Pathologists, 1992 - Present
- Member, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1990 - Present
- Academic Merit Scholarship to College/Medical School Combined Program, Damascus University, 1977 - 1983
- Member, Consumers Research Council of America
Research
Publications
Guinipero T, Kahwash SB. Morphologic findings often provide guidance when immunophenotypic data overlap: a case of AML with cup-shaped nuclei. Blood. 2022 Sep 22; 140: 1448.
Wong YP, Buckley K, Iwenofu OH, Singhi A, Kahwash SB, Arnold CA, Tan GC, Arnold MA. Selective Immunoreactivity for WT1 Carboxy-Terminus Distinguishes Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor From its Histologic Mimics. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2022 Apr 29; 10935266221088151.
Pollard JA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing R, Brown P, Fox E, Choi J, Fisher B, Hirsch B, Kahwash S, Getz K, Levine J, Brodersen LE, Loken MR, Raimondi S, Tarlock K, Wood A, Sung L, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Meshinchi S, Aplenc R. Sorafenib in Combination With Standard Chemotherapy for Children With High Allelic Ratio FLT3/ITD+ Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Protocol AAML1031. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Mar 29; JCO2101612.
DeMarsh SJ, Kendel NE, Bacha C, Ardoin SP, Kahwash S, Rose MJ. Storming the castle: A case report of multi-system dysregulation in a child with Castleman disease. Clin Case Rep. 2022 Feb; 10: e05491.
Getz KD, Alonzo TA, Sung L, Meshinchi S, Gerbing RB, Raimondi S, Hirsch B, Loken M, Brodersen LE, Kahwash S, Choi J, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Aplenc R. Cytarabine dose reduction in patients with low-risk acute myeloid leukemia: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Jan; 69: e29313.
Kutny MA, Alonzo TA, Abla O, Rajpurkar M, Gerbing RB, Wang YC, Hirsch BA, Raimondi S, Kahwash S, Hardy KK, Hardy S, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS, Kolb EA, Feusner JH, Gregory J Jr. Assessment of Arsenic Trioxide and All-trans Retinoic Acid for the Treatment of Pediatric Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group AAML1331 Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Nov 11;
Pyle-Eilola AL, Kahwash SB, Dennis G, Hubbard N, Leber A. The Brief Case: A 6-Year-Old with Fever, Abdominal Pain, and Recent Travel to Sierra Leone. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 Oct 19; 59: e0053421.
Treinen C, Abu-Arja MH, Kahwash SB, Rangarajan HG, Willen F, Audino AN. A Novel Case of Concurrent T-cell and Early T-cell Precursor Lymphoblastic Lymphoma in an Adolescent Female. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2021 Jul 23;
Balakrishna JP, Kahwash SB. Unusual red blood cell inclusions in an intravenous drug abuse patient. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2021 May; 88: 102509.
Liu H, Guinipero TL, Schieffer KM, Carter C, Colace S, Leonard JR, Orr BA, Kahwash SB, Brennan PJ, Fitch JR, Kelly B, Magrini VJ, White P, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Cottrell CE, Boué DR. De novo primary central nervous system pure erythroid leukemia/sarcoma with t(1;16)(p31;q24) NFIA/CBFA2T3 translocation. Haematologica. 2020 Apr; 105: e194-e197.
Orgel E, Alexander TB, Wood BL, Kahwash SB, Devidas M, Dai Y, Alonzo TA, Mullighan CG, Inaba H, Hunger SP, Raetz EA, Gamis AS, Rabin KR, Carroll AJ 3rd, Heerema NA, Berman JN, Woods WG, Loh ML, Zweidler-McKay PA, Horan JT, Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force.. Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia: A cohort and consensus research strategy from the Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force. Cancer. 2020 Feb 1; 126: 593-601.
Belsky JA, Audino AN, Kahwash SB. Separating Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Involving Marrow From Lymphoblastic Leukemia: It is Time to Update the CutOff Number. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2019 Nov; 41: 658-659.
Carroll AJ, Shago M, Mikhail FM, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Maloney KW, Mattano LA Jr, Larsen EC, Gastier-Foster J, Stonerock E, Ell D, Kahwash S, Devidas M, Harvey RC, Chen IL, Willman CL, Hunger SP, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Rao KW, Heerema NA. Masked hypodiploidy: Hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) mimicking hyperdiploid ALL in children: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Cancer Genet. 2019 Jul 30; 238: 62-68.
McNeer JL, Devidas M, Dai Y, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Gastier-Foster JM, Kahwash SB, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Larsen E, Maloney KW, Mattano L, Winick NJ, Schultz KR, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Loh ML, Raetz EA. Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Does Not Improve the Poor Outcome of Children With Hypodiploid Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From Children's Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Apr 1; 37: 780-789.
Rose GS, Arnold CA, Badizadegan K, Carter CM, Conces MR, Kahwash SB, Nicol KK, Arnold MA. Cytoplasmic Fibrillar Aggregates in Gallbladder Epithelium Are a Frequent Mimic of Cystoisospora in Pediatric Cholecystectomy Specimens. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2019 Apr 10;
Woods GM, Pillay Smiley N, Stanek J, Kahwash S, Kerlin BA, O'Brien SH. Variation in Platelet Delta Granules Over Time in Young Women Undergoing Evaluation for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2019 Mar-Apr; 22: 123-127.
Dvorak CC, Satwani P, Stieglitz E, Cairo MS, Dang H, Pei Q, Gao Y, Wall D, Mazor T, Olshen AB, Parker JS, Kahwash S, Hirsch B, Raimondi S, Patel N, Skeens M, Cooper T, Mehta PA, Grupp SA, Loh ML. Disease burden and conditioning regimens in ASCT1221, a randomized phase II trial in children with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia: A Children's Oncology Group study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Jul; 65: e27034.
Jacobson AE, Kahwash SB, Chawla A. Refractory cytopenias secondary to copper deficiency in children receiving exclusive jejunal nutrition. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Nov; 64:
Guest EM, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing RB, Wang YJ, Kahwash SB, Heerema-McKenney A, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS. Gemtuzumab ozogamicin in infants with AML: results from the Children's Oncology Group trials AAML03P1 and AAML0531. Blood. 2017 Aug 17; 130: 943-945.
Tarlock K, Alonzo TA, Loken MR, Gerbing RB, Ries RE, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Kahwash SB, McKenney A, Kolb EA, Gamis AS, Meshinchi S. Disease Characteristics and Prognostic Implications of Cell-Surface FLT3 Receptor (CD135) Expression in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report from the Children's Oncology Group. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jul 15; 23: 3649-3656.
Conces M, Abu-Arja R, Reed S, Rangarajan HG, Guinipero TL, Loken MR, Brodersen LE, Kahwash SB. Acute Myeloid Leukemia with RAM Immunophenotype: A Pediatric Case with Unusual Morphologic Features. Hematol Rep. 2017 Jun 1; 9: 7057.
Welch JJG, Schwartz CL, Higman M, Chen L, Buxton A, Kanakry JA, Kahwash SB, Hutchison RE, Friedman DL, Ambinder RF. Epstein-Barr virus DNA in serum as an early prognostic marker in children and adolescents with Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2017 Apr 25; 1: 681-684.
Chen RW, Li H, Bernstein SH, Kahwash S, Rimsza LM, Forman SJ, Constine L, Shea TC, Cashen AF, Blum KA, Fenske TS, Barr PM, Phillips T, Leblanc M, Fisher RI, Cheson BD, Smith SM, Faham M, Wilkins J, Leonard JP, Kahl BS, Friedberg JW. RB but not R-HCVAD is a feasible induction regimen prior to auto-HCT in frontline MCL: results of SWOG Study S1106. Br J Haematol. 2017 Mar; 176: 759-769.
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Research
Publications
Guinipero T, Kahwash SB. Morphologic findings often provide guidance when immunophenotypic data overlap: a case of AML with cup-shaped nuclei. Blood. 2022 Sep 22; 140: 1448.
Wong YP, Buckley K, Iwenofu OH, Singhi A, Kahwash SB, Arnold CA, Tan GC, Arnold MA. Selective Immunoreactivity for WT1 Carboxy-Terminus Distinguishes Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor From its Histologic Mimics. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2022 Apr 29; 10935266221088151.
Pollard JA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing R, Brown P, Fox E, Choi J, Fisher B, Hirsch B, Kahwash S, Getz K, Levine J, Brodersen LE, Loken MR, Raimondi S, Tarlock K, Wood A, Sung L, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Meshinchi S, Aplenc R. Sorafenib in Combination With Standard Chemotherapy for Children With High Allelic Ratio FLT3/ITD+ Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Protocol AAML1031. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Mar 29; JCO2101612.
DeMarsh SJ, Kendel NE, Bacha C, Ardoin SP, Kahwash S, Rose MJ. Storming the castle: A case report of multi-system dysregulation in a child with Castleman disease. Clin Case Rep. 2022 Feb; 10: e05491.
Getz KD, Alonzo TA, Sung L, Meshinchi S, Gerbing RB, Raimondi S, Hirsch B, Loken M, Brodersen LE, Kahwash S, Choi J, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Aplenc R. Cytarabine dose reduction in patients with low-risk acute myeloid leukemia: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Jan; 69: e29313.
Kutny MA, Alonzo TA, Abla O, Rajpurkar M, Gerbing RB, Wang YC, Hirsch BA, Raimondi S, Kahwash S, Hardy KK, Hardy S, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS, Kolb EA, Feusner JH, Gregory J Jr. Assessment of Arsenic Trioxide and All-trans Retinoic Acid for the Treatment of Pediatric Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group AAML1331 Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Nov 11;
Pyle-Eilola AL, Kahwash SB, Dennis G, Hubbard N, Leber A. The Brief Case: A 6-Year-Old with Fever, Abdominal Pain, and Recent Travel to Sierra Leone. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 Oct 19; 59: e0053421.
Treinen C, Abu-Arja MH, Kahwash SB, Rangarajan HG, Willen F, Audino AN. A Novel Case of Concurrent T-cell and Early T-cell Precursor Lymphoblastic Lymphoma in an Adolescent Female. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2021 Jul 23;
Balakrishna JP, Kahwash SB. Unusual red blood cell inclusions in an intravenous drug abuse patient. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2021 May; 88: 102509.
Liu H, Guinipero TL, Schieffer KM, Carter C, Colace S, Leonard JR, Orr BA, Kahwash SB, Brennan PJ, Fitch JR, Kelly B, Magrini VJ, White P, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Cottrell CE, Boué DR. De novo primary central nervous system pure erythroid leukemia/sarcoma with t(1;16)(p31;q24) NFIA/CBFA2T3 translocation. Haematologica. 2020 Apr; 105: e194-e197.
Orgel E, Alexander TB, Wood BL, Kahwash SB, Devidas M, Dai Y, Alonzo TA, Mullighan CG, Inaba H, Hunger SP, Raetz EA, Gamis AS, Rabin KR, Carroll AJ 3rd, Heerema NA, Berman JN, Woods WG, Loh ML, Zweidler-McKay PA, Horan JT, Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force.. Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia: A cohort and consensus research strategy from the Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force. Cancer. 2020 Feb 1; 126: 593-601.
Belsky JA, Audino AN, Kahwash SB. Separating Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Involving Marrow From Lymphoblastic Leukemia: It is Time to Update the CutOff Number. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2019 Nov; 41: 658-659.
Carroll AJ, Shago M, Mikhail FM, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Maloney KW, Mattano LA Jr, Larsen EC, Gastier-Foster J, Stonerock E, Ell D, Kahwash S, Devidas M, Harvey RC, Chen IL, Willman CL, Hunger SP, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Rao KW, Heerema NA. Masked hypodiploidy: Hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) mimicking hyperdiploid ALL in children: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Cancer Genet. 2019 Jul 30; 238: 62-68.
McNeer JL, Devidas M, Dai Y, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Gastier-Foster JM, Kahwash SB, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Larsen E, Maloney KW, Mattano L, Winick NJ, Schultz KR, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Loh ML, Raetz EA. Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Does Not Improve the Poor Outcome of Children With Hypodiploid Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From Children's Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Apr 1; 37: 780-789.
Rose GS, Arnold CA, Badizadegan K, Carter CM, Conces MR, Kahwash SB, Nicol KK, Arnold MA. Cytoplasmic Fibrillar Aggregates in Gallbladder Epithelium Are a Frequent Mimic of Cystoisospora in Pediatric Cholecystectomy Specimens. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2019 Apr 10;
Woods GM, Pillay Smiley N, Stanek J, Kahwash S, Kerlin BA, O'Brien SH. Variation in Platelet Delta Granules Over Time in Young Women Undergoing Evaluation for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2019 Mar-Apr; 22: 123-127.
Dvorak CC, Satwani P, Stieglitz E, Cairo MS, Dang H, Pei Q, Gao Y, Wall D, Mazor T, Olshen AB, Parker JS, Kahwash S, Hirsch B, Raimondi S, Patel N, Skeens M, Cooper T, Mehta PA, Grupp SA, Loh ML. Disease burden and conditioning regimens in ASCT1221, a randomized phase II trial in children with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia: A Children's Oncology Group study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Jul; 65: e27034.
Jacobson AE, Kahwash SB, Chawla A. Refractory cytopenias secondary to copper deficiency in children receiving exclusive jejunal nutrition. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Nov; 64:
Guest EM, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing RB, Wang YJ, Kahwash SB, Heerema-McKenney A, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS. Gemtuzumab ozogamicin in infants with AML: results from the Children's Oncology Group trials AAML03P1 and AAML0531. Blood. 2017 Aug 17; 130: 943-945.
Tarlock K, Alonzo TA, Loken MR, Gerbing RB, Ries RE, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Kahwash SB, McKenney A, Kolb EA, Gamis AS, Meshinchi S. Disease Characteristics and Prognostic Implications of Cell-Surface FLT3 Receptor (CD135) Expression in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report from the Children's Oncology Group. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jul 15; 23: 3649-3656.
Conces M, Abu-Arja R, Reed S, Rangarajan HG, Guinipero TL, Loken MR, Brodersen LE, Kahwash SB. Acute Myeloid Leukemia with RAM Immunophenotype: A Pediatric Case with Unusual Morphologic Features. Hematol Rep. 2017 Jun 1; 9: 7057.
Welch JJG, Schwartz CL, Higman M, Chen L, Buxton A, Kanakry JA, Kahwash SB, Hutchison RE, Friedman DL, Ambinder RF. Epstein-Barr virus DNA in serum as an early prognostic marker in children and adolescents with Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2017 Apr 25; 1: 681-684.
Chen RW, Li H, Bernstein SH, Kahwash S, Rimsza LM, Forman SJ, Constine L, Shea TC, Cashen AF, Blum KA, Fenske TS, Barr PM, Phillips T, Leblanc M, Fisher RI, Cheson BD, Smith SM, Faham M, Wilkins J, Leonard JP, Kahl BS, Friedberg JW. RB but not R-HCVAD is a feasible induction regimen prior to auto-HCT in frontline MCL: results of SWOG Study S1106. Br J Haematol. 2017 Mar; 176: 759-769.
View More Publications
Research
Publications
Guinipero T, Kahwash SB. Morphologic findings often provide guidance when immunophenotypic data overlap: a case of AML with cup-shaped nuclei. Blood. 2022 Sep 22; 140: 1448.
Wong YP, Buckley K, Iwenofu OH, Singhi A, Kahwash SB, Arnold CA, Tan GC, Arnold MA. Selective Immunoreactivity for WT1 Carboxy-Terminus Distinguishes Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor From its Histologic Mimics. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2022 Apr 29; 10935266221088151.
Pollard JA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing R, Brown P, Fox E, Choi J, Fisher B, Hirsch B, Kahwash S, Getz K, Levine J, Brodersen LE, Loken MR, Raimondi S, Tarlock K, Wood A, Sung L, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Meshinchi S, Aplenc R. Sorafenib in Combination With Standard Chemotherapy for Children With High Allelic Ratio FLT3/ITD+ Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Protocol AAML1031. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Mar 29; JCO2101612.
DeMarsh SJ, Kendel NE, Bacha C, Ardoin SP, Kahwash S, Rose MJ. Storming the castle: A case report of multi-system dysregulation in a child with Castleman disease. Clin Case Rep. 2022 Feb; 10: e05491.
Getz KD, Alonzo TA, Sung L, Meshinchi S, Gerbing RB, Raimondi S, Hirsch B, Loken M, Brodersen LE, Kahwash S, Choi J, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Aplenc R. Cytarabine dose reduction in patients with low-risk acute myeloid leukemia: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Jan; 69: e29313.
Kutny MA, Alonzo TA, Abla O, Rajpurkar M, Gerbing RB, Wang YC, Hirsch BA, Raimondi S, Kahwash S, Hardy KK, Hardy S, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS, Kolb EA, Feusner JH, Gregory J Jr. Assessment of Arsenic Trioxide and All-trans Retinoic Acid for the Treatment of Pediatric Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group AAML1331 Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Nov 11;
Pyle-Eilola AL, Kahwash SB, Dennis G, Hubbard N, Leber A. The Brief Case: A 6-Year-Old with Fever, Abdominal Pain, and Recent Travel to Sierra Leone. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 Oct 19; 59: e0053421.
Treinen C, Abu-Arja MH, Kahwash SB, Rangarajan HG, Willen F, Audino AN. A Novel Case of Concurrent T-cell and Early T-cell Precursor Lymphoblastic Lymphoma in an Adolescent Female. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2021 Jul 23;
Balakrishna JP, Kahwash SB. Unusual red blood cell inclusions in an intravenous drug abuse patient. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2021 May; 88: 102509.
Liu H, Guinipero TL, Schieffer KM, Carter C, Colace S, Leonard JR, Orr BA, Kahwash SB, Brennan PJ, Fitch JR, Kelly B, Magrini VJ, White P, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Cottrell CE, Boué DR. De novo primary central nervous system pure erythroid leukemia/sarcoma with t(1;16)(p31;q24) NFIA/CBFA2T3 translocation. Haematologica. 2020 Apr; 105: e194-e197.
Orgel E, Alexander TB, Wood BL, Kahwash SB, Devidas M, Dai Y, Alonzo TA, Mullighan CG, Inaba H, Hunger SP, Raetz EA, Gamis AS, Rabin KR, Carroll AJ 3rd, Heerema NA, Berman JN, Woods WG, Loh ML, Zweidler-McKay PA, Horan JT, Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force.. Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia: A cohort and consensus research strategy from the Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force. Cancer. 2020 Feb 1; 126: 593-601.
Belsky JA, Audino AN, Kahwash SB. Separating Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Involving Marrow From Lymphoblastic Leukemia: It is Time to Update the CutOff Number. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2019 Nov; 41: 658-659.
Carroll AJ, Shago M, Mikhail FM, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Maloney KW, Mattano LA Jr, Larsen EC, Gastier-Foster J, Stonerock E, Ell D, Kahwash S, Devidas M, Harvey RC, Chen IL, Willman CL, Hunger SP, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Rao KW, Heerema NA. Masked hypodiploidy: Hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) mimicking hyperdiploid ALL in children: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Cancer Genet. 2019 Jul 30; 238: 62-68.
McNeer JL, Devidas M, Dai Y, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Gastier-Foster JM, Kahwash SB, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Larsen E, Maloney KW, Mattano L, Winick NJ, Schultz KR, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Loh ML, Raetz EA. Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Does Not Improve the Poor Outcome of Children With Hypodiploid Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From Children's Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Apr 1; 37: 780-789.
Rose GS, Arnold CA, Badizadegan K, Carter CM, Conces MR, Kahwash SB, Nicol KK, Arnold MA. Cytoplasmic Fibrillar Aggregates in Gallbladder Epithelium Are a Frequent Mimic of Cystoisospora in Pediatric Cholecystectomy Specimens. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2019 Apr 10;
Woods GM, Pillay Smiley N, Stanek J, Kahwash S, Kerlin BA, O'Brien SH. Variation in Platelet Delta Granules Over Time in Young Women Undergoing Evaluation for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2019 Mar-Apr; 22: 123-127.
Dvorak CC, Satwani P, Stieglitz E, Cairo MS, Dang H, Pei Q, Gao Y, Wall D, Mazor T, Olshen AB, Parker JS, Kahwash S, Hirsch B, Raimondi S, Patel N, Skeens M, Cooper T, Mehta PA, Grupp SA, Loh ML. Disease burden and conditioning regimens in ASCT1221, a randomized phase II trial in children with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia: A Children's Oncology Group study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Jul; 65: e27034.
Jacobson AE, Kahwash SB, Chawla A. Refractory cytopenias secondary to copper deficiency in children receiving exclusive jejunal nutrition. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Nov; 64:
Guest EM, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing RB, Wang YJ, Kahwash SB, Heerema-McKenney A, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS. Gemtuzumab ozogamicin in infants with AML: results from the Children's Oncology Group trials AAML03P1 and AAML0531. Blood. 2017 Aug 17; 130: 943-945.
Tarlock K, Alonzo TA, Loken MR, Gerbing RB, Ries RE, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Kahwash SB, McKenney A, Kolb EA, Gamis AS, Meshinchi S. Disease Characteristics and Prognostic Implications of Cell-Surface FLT3 Receptor (CD135) Expression in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report from the Children's Oncology Group. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jul 15; 23: 3649-3656.
Conces M, Abu-Arja R, Reed S, Rangarajan HG, Guinipero TL, Loken MR, Brodersen LE, Kahwash SB. Acute Myeloid Leukemia with RAM Immunophenotype: A Pediatric Case with Unusual Morphologic Features. Hematol Rep. 2017 Jun 1; 9: 7057.
Welch JJG, Schwartz CL, Higman M, Chen L, Buxton A, Kanakry JA, Kahwash SB, Hutchison RE, Friedman DL, Ambinder RF. Epstein-Barr virus DNA in serum as an early prognostic marker in children and adolescents with Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2017 Apr 25; 1: 681-684.
Chen RW, Li H, Bernstein SH, Kahwash S, Rimsza LM, Forman SJ, Constine L, Shea TC, Cashen AF, Blum KA, Fenske TS, Barr PM, Phillips T, Leblanc M, Fisher RI, Cheson BD, Smith SM, Faham M, Wilkins J, Leonard JP, Kahl BS, Friedberg JW. RB but not R-HCVAD is a feasible induction regimen prior to auto-HCT in frontline MCL: results of SWOG Study S1106. Br J Haematol. 2017 Mar; 176: 759-769.
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Publications
Guinipero T, Kahwash SB. Morphologic findings often provide guidance when immunophenotypic data overlap: a case of AML with cup-shaped nuclei. Blood. 2022 Sep 22; 140: 1448.
Wong YP, Buckley K, Iwenofu OH, Singhi A, Kahwash SB, Arnold CA, Tan GC, Arnold MA. Selective Immunoreactivity for WT1 Carboxy-Terminus Distinguishes Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor From its Histologic Mimics. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2022 Apr 29; 10935266221088151.
Pollard JA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing R, Brown P, Fox E, Choi J, Fisher B, Hirsch B, Kahwash S, Getz K, Levine J, Brodersen LE, Loken MR, Raimondi S, Tarlock K, Wood A, Sung L, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Meshinchi S, Aplenc R. Sorafenib in Combination With Standard Chemotherapy for Children With High Allelic Ratio FLT3/ITD+ Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Protocol AAML1031. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Mar 29; JCO2101612.
DeMarsh SJ, Kendel NE, Bacha C, Ardoin SP, Kahwash S, Rose MJ. Storming the castle: A case report of multi-system dysregulation in a child with Castleman disease. Clin Case Rep. 2022 Feb; 10: e05491.
Getz KD, Alonzo TA, Sung L, Meshinchi S, Gerbing RB, Raimondi S, Hirsch B, Loken M, Brodersen LE, Kahwash S, Choi J, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Aplenc R. Cytarabine dose reduction in patients with low-risk acute myeloid leukemia: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Jan; 69: e29313.
Kutny MA, Alonzo TA, Abla O, Rajpurkar M, Gerbing RB, Wang YC, Hirsch BA, Raimondi S, Kahwash S, Hardy KK, Hardy S, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS, Kolb EA, Feusner JH, Gregory J Jr. Assessment of Arsenic Trioxide and All-trans Retinoic Acid for the Treatment of Pediatric Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group AAML1331 Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Nov 11;
Pyle-Eilola AL, Kahwash SB, Dennis G, Hubbard N, Leber A. The Brief Case: A 6-Year-Old with Fever, Abdominal Pain, and Recent Travel to Sierra Leone. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 Oct 19; 59: e0053421.
Treinen C, Abu-Arja MH, Kahwash SB, Rangarajan HG, Willen F, Audino AN. A Novel Case of Concurrent T-cell and Early T-cell Precursor Lymphoblastic Lymphoma in an Adolescent Female. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2021 Jul 23;
Balakrishna JP, Kahwash SB. Unusual red blood cell inclusions in an intravenous drug abuse patient. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2021 May; 88: 102509.
Liu H, Guinipero TL, Schieffer KM, Carter C, Colace S, Leonard JR, Orr BA, Kahwash SB, Brennan PJ, Fitch JR, Kelly B, Magrini VJ, White P, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Cottrell CE, Boué DR. De novo primary central nervous system pure erythroid leukemia/sarcoma with t(1;16)(p31;q24) NFIA/CBFA2T3 translocation. Haematologica. 2020 Apr; 105: e194-e197.
Orgel E, Alexander TB, Wood BL, Kahwash SB, Devidas M, Dai Y, Alonzo TA, Mullighan CG, Inaba H, Hunger SP, Raetz EA, Gamis AS, Rabin KR, Carroll AJ 3rd, Heerema NA, Berman JN, Woods WG, Loh ML, Zweidler-McKay PA, Horan JT, Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force.. Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia: A cohort and consensus research strategy from the Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force. Cancer. 2020 Feb 1; 126: 593-601.
Belsky JA, Audino AN, Kahwash SB. Separating Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Involving Marrow From Lymphoblastic Leukemia: It is Time to Update the CutOff Number. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2019 Nov; 41: 658-659.
Carroll AJ, Shago M, Mikhail FM, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Maloney KW, Mattano LA Jr, Larsen EC, Gastier-Foster J, Stonerock E, Ell D, Kahwash S, Devidas M, Harvey RC, Chen IL, Willman CL, Hunger SP, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Rao KW, Heerema NA. Masked hypodiploidy: Hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) mimicking hyperdiploid ALL in children: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Cancer Genet. 2019 Jul 30; 238: 62-68.
McNeer JL, Devidas M, Dai Y, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Gastier-Foster JM, Kahwash SB, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Larsen E, Maloney KW, Mattano L, Winick NJ, Schultz KR, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Loh ML, Raetz EA. Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Does Not Improve the Poor Outcome of Children With Hypodiploid Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From Children's Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Apr 1; 37: 780-789.
Rose GS, Arnold CA, Badizadegan K, Carter CM, Conces MR, Kahwash SB, Nicol KK, Arnold MA. Cytoplasmic Fibrillar Aggregates in Gallbladder Epithelium Are a Frequent Mimic of Cystoisospora in Pediatric Cholecystectomy Specimens. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2019 Apr 10;
Woods GM, Pillay Smiley N, Stanek J, Kahwash S, Kerlin BA, O'Brien SH. Variation in Platelet Delta Granules Over Time in Young Women Undergoing Evaluation for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2019 Mar-Apr; 22: 123-127.
Dvorak CC, Satwani P, Stieglitz E, Cairo MS, Dang H, Pei Q, Gao Y, Wall D, Mazor T, Olshen AB, Parker JS, Kahwash S, Hirsch B, Raimondi S, Patel N, Skeens M, Cooper T, Mehta PA, Grupp SA, Loh ML. Disease burden and conditioning regimens in ASCT1221, a randomized phase II trial in children with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia: A Children's Oncology Group study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Jul; 65: e27034.
Jacobson AE, Kahwash SB, Chawla A. Refractory cytopenias secondary to copper deficiency in children receiving exclusive jejunal nutrition. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Nov; 64:
Guest EM, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing RB, Wang YJ, Kahwash SB, Heerema-McKenney A, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS. Gemtuzumab ozogamicin in infants with AML: results from the Children's Oncology Group trials AAML03P1 and AAML0531. Blood. 2017 Aug 17; 130: 943-945.
Tarlock K, Alonzo TA, Loken MR, Gerbing RB, Ries RE, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Kahwash SB, McKenney A, Kolb EA, Gamis AS, Meshinchi S. Disease Characteristics and Prognostic Implications of Cell-Surface FLT3 Receptor (CD135) Expression in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report from the Children's Oncology Group. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jul 15; 23: 3649-3656.
Conces M, Abu-Arja R, Reed S, Rangarajan HG, Guinipero TL, Loken MR, Brodersen LE, Kahwash SB. Acute Myeloid Leukemia with RAM Immunophenotype: A Pediatric Case with Unusual Morphologic Features. Hematol Rep. 2017 Jun 1; 9: 7057.
Welch JJG, Schwartz CL, Higman M, Chen L, Buxton A, Kanakry JA, Kahwash SB, Hutchison RE, Friedman DL, Ambinder RF. Epstein-Barr virus DNA in serum as an early prognostic marker in children and adolescents with Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2017 Apr 25; 1: 681-684.
Chen RW, Li H, Bernstein SH, Kahwash S, Rimsza LM, Forman SJ, Constine L, Shea TC, Cashen AF, Blum KA, Fenske TS, Barr PM, Phillips T, Leblanc M, Fisher RI, Cheson BD, Smith SM, Faham M, Wilkins J, Leonard JP, Kahl BS, Friedberg JW. RB but not R-HCVAD is a feasible induction regimen prior to auto-HCT in frontline MCL: results of SWOG Study S1106. Br J Haematol. 2017 Mar; 176: 759-769.
View More Publications
Guinipero T, Kahwash SB. Morphologic findings often provide guidance when immunophenotypic data overlap: a case of AML with cup-shaped nuclei. Blood. 2022 Sep 22; 140: 1448.
Wong YP, Buckley K, Iwenofu OH, Singhi A, Kahwash SB, Arnold CA, Tan GC, Arnold MA. Selective Immunoreactivity for WT1 Carboxy-Terminus Distinguishes Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor From its Histologic Mimics. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2022 Apr 29; 10935266221088151.
Pollard JA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing R, Brown P, Fox E, Choi J, Fisher B, Hirsch B, Kahwash S, Getz K, Levine J, Brodersen LE, Loken MR, Raimondi S, Tarlock K, Wood A, Sung L, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Meshinchi S, Aplenc R. Sorafenib in Combination With Standard Chemotherapy for Children With High Allelic Ratio FLT3/ITD+ Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Protocol AAML1031. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Mar 29; JCO2101612.
DeMarsh SJ, Kendel NE, Bacha C, Ardoin SP, Kahwash S, Rose MJ. Storming the castle: A case report of multi-system dysregulation in a child with Castleman disease. Clin Case Rep. 2022 Feb; 10: e05491.
Getz KD, Alonzo TA, Sung L, Meshinchi S, Gerbing RB, Raimondi S, Hirsch B, Loken M, Brodersen LE, Kahwash S, Choi J, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Aplenc R. Cytarabine dose reduction in patients with low-risk acute myeloid leukemia: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Jan; 69: e29313.
Kutny MA, Alonzo TA, Abla O, Rajpurkar M, Gerbing RB, Wang YC, Hirsch BA, Raimondi S, Kahwash S, Hardy KK, Hardy S, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS, Kolb EA, Feusner JH, Gregory J Jr. Assessment of Arsenic Trioxide and All-trans Retinoic Acid for the Treatment of Pediatric Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group AAML1331 Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Nov 11;
Pyle-Eilola AL, Kahwash SB, Dennis G, Hubbard N, Leber A. The Brief Case: A 6-Year-Old with Fever, Abdominal Pain, and Recent Travel to Sierra Leone. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 Oct 19; 59: e0053421.
Treinen C, Abu-Arja MH, Kahwash SB, Rangarajan HG, Willen F, Audino AN. A Novel Case of Concurrent T-cell and Early T-cell Precursor Lymphoblastic Lymphoma in an Adolescent Female. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2021 Jul 23;
Balakrishna JP, Kahwash SB. Unusual red blood cell inclusions in an intravenous drug abuse patient. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2021 May; 88: 102509.
Liu H, Guinipero TL, Schieffer KM, Carter C, Colace S, Leonard JR, Orr BA, Kahwash SB, Brennan PJ, Fitch JR, Kelly B, Magrini VJ, White P, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Cottrell CE, Boué DR. De novo primary central nervous system pure erythroid leukemia/sarcoma with t(1;16)(p31;q24) NFIA/CBFA2T3 translocation. Haematologica. 2020 Apr; 105: e194-e197.
Orgel E, Alexander TB, Wood BL, Kahwash SB, Devidas M, Dai Y, Alonzo TA, Mullighan CG, Inaba H, Hunger SP, Raetz EA, Gamis AS, Rabin KR, Carroll AJ 3rd, Heerema NA, Berman JN, Woods WG, Loh ML, Zweidler-McKay PA, Horan JT, Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force.. Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia: A cohort and consensus research strategy from the Children's Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force. Cancer. 2020 Feb 1; 126: 593-601.
Belsky JA, Audino AN, Kahwash SB. Separating Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Involving Marrow From Lymphoblastic Leukemia: It is Time to Update the CutOff Number. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2019 Nov; 41: 658-659.
Carroll AJ, Shago M, Mikhail FM, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Maloney KW, Mattano LA Jr, Larsen EC, Gastier-Foster J, Stonerock E, Ell D, Kahwash S, Devidas M, Harvey RC, Chen IL, Willman CL, Hunger SP, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Rao KW, Heerema NA. Masked hypodiploidy: Hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) mimicking hyperdiploid ALL in children: A report from the Children's Oncology Group. Cancer Genet. 2019 Jul 30; 238: 62-68.
McNeer JL, Devidas M, Dai Y, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Gastier-Foster JM, Kahwash SB, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Larsen E, Maloney KW, Mattano L, Winick NJ, Schultz KR, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Loh ML, Raetz EA. Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Does Not Improve the Poor Outcome of Children With Hypodiploid Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From Children's Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Apr 1; 37: 780-789.
Rose GS, Arnold CA, Badizadegan K, Carter CM, Conces MR, Kahwash SB, Nicol KK, Arnold MA. Cytoplasmic Fibrillar Aggregates in Gallbladder Epithelium Are a Frequent Mimic of Cystoisospora in Pediatric Cholecystectomy Specimens. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2019 Apr 10;
Woods GM, Pillay Smiley N, Stanek J, Kahwash S, Kerlin BA, O'Brien SH. Variation in Platelet Delta Granules Over Time in Young Women Undergoing Evaluation for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2019 Mar-Apr; 22: 123-127.
Dvorak CC, Satwani P, Stieglitz E, Cairo MS, Dang H, Pei Q, Gao Y, Wall D, Mazor T, Olshen AB, Parker JS, Kahwash S, Hirsch B, Raimondi S, Patel N, Skeens M, Cooper T, Mehta PA, Grupp SA, Loh ML. Disease burden and conditioning regimens in ASCT1221, a randomized phase II trial in children with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia: A Children's Oncology Group study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Jul; 65: e27034.
Jacobson AE, Kahwash SB, Chawla A. Refractory cytopenias secondary to copper deficiency in children receiving exclusive jejunal nutrition. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Nov; 64:
Guest EM, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing RB, Wang YJ, Kahwash SB, Heerema-McKenney A, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS. Gemtuzumab ozogamicin in infants with AML: results from the Children's Oncology Group trials AAML03P1 and AAML0531. Blood. 2017 Aug 17; 130: 943-945.
Tarlock K, Alonzo TA, Loken MR, Gerbing RB, Ries RE, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Kahwash SB, McKenney A, Kolb EA, Gamis AS, Meshinchi S. Disease Characteristics and Prognostic Implications of Cell-Surface FLT3 Receptor (CD135) Expression in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report from the Children's Oncology Group. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jul 15; 23: 3649-3656.
Conces M, Abu-Arja R, Reed S, Rangarajan HG, Guinipero TL, Loken MR, Brodersen LE, Kahwash SB. Acute Myeloid Leukemia with RAM Immunophenotype: A Pediatric Case with Unusual Morphologic Features. Hematol Rep. 2017 Jun 1; 9: 7057.
Welch JJG, Schwartz CL, Higman M, Chen L, Buxton A, Kanakry JA, Kahwash SB, Hutchison RE, Friedman DL, Ambinder RF. Epstein-Barr virus DNA in serum as an early prognostic marker in children and adolescents with Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2017 Apr 25; 1: 681-684.
Chen RW, Li H, Bernstein SH, Kahwash S, Rimsza LM, Forman SJ, Constine L, Shea TC, Cashen AF, Blum KA, Fenske TS, Barr PM, Phillips T, Leblanc M, Fisher RI, Cheson BD, Smith SM, Faham M, Wilkins J, Leonard JP, Kahl BS, Friedberg JW. RB but not R-HCVAD is a feasible induction regimen prior to auto-HCT in frontline MCL: results of SWOG Study S1106. Br J Haematol. 2017 Mar; 176: 759-769.
View More Publications
- Guinipero T, Kahwash SB. Morphologic findings often provide guidance when immunophenotypic data overlap: a case of AML with cup-shaped nuclei. Blood. 2022 Sep 22; 140: 1448.
- Wong YP, Buckley K, Iwenofu OH, Singhi A, Kahwash SB, Arnold CA, Tan GC, Arnold MA. Selective Immunoreactivity for WT1 Carboxy-Terminus Distinguishes Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor From its Histologic Mimics. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2022 Apr 29; 10935266221088151.
- Pollard JA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing R, Brown P, Fox E, Choi J, Fisher B, Hirsch B, Kahwash S, Getz K, Levine J, Brodersen LE, Loken MR, Raimondi S, Tarlock K, Wood A, Sung L, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Meshinchi S, Aplenc R. Sorafenib in Combination With Standard Chemotherapy for Children With High Allelic Ratio FLT3/ITD+ Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report From the Children’s Oncology Group Protocol AAML1031. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Mar 29; JCO2101612.
- DeMarsh SJ, Kendel NE, Bacha C, Ardoin SP, Kahwash S, Rose MJ. Storming the castle: A case report of multi-system dysregulation in a child with Castleman disease. Clin Case Rep. 2022 Feb; 10: e05491.
- Getz KD, Alonzo TA, Sung L, Meshinchi S, Gerbing RB, Raimondi S, Hirsch B, Loken M, Brodersen LE, Kahwash S, Choi J, Kolb EA, Gamis A, Aplenc R. Cytarabine dose reduction in patients with low-risk acute myeloid leukemia: A report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Jan; 69: e29313.
- Kutny MA, Alonzo TA, Abla O, Rajpurkar M, Gerbing RB, Wang YC, Hirsch BA, Raimondi S, Kahwash S, Hardy KK, Hardy S, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS, Kolb EA, Feusner JH, Gregory J Jr. Assessment of Arsenic Trioxide and All-trans Retinoic Acid for the Treatment of Pediatric Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: A Report From the Children’s Oncology Group AAML1331 Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Nov 11;
- Pyle-Eilola AL, Kahwash SB, Dennis G, Hubbard N, Leber A. The Brief Case: A 6-Year-Old with Fever, Abdominal Pain, and Recent Travel to Sierra Leone. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 Oct 19; 59: e0053421.
- Treinen C, Abu-Arja MH, Kahwash SB, Rangarajan HG, Willen F, Audino AN. A Novel Case of Concurrent T-cell and Early T-cell Precursor Lymphoblastic Lymphoma in an Adolescent Female. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2021 Jul 23;
- Balakrishna JP, Kahwash SB. Unusual red blood cell inclusions in an intravenous drug abuse patient. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2021 May; 88: 102509.
- Liu H, Guinipero TL, Schieffer KM, Carter C, Colace S, Leonard JR, Orr BA, Kahwash SB, Brennan PJ, Fitch JR, Kelly B, Magrini VJ, White P, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Cottrell CE, Boué DR. De novo primary central nervous system pure erythroid leukemia/sarcoma with t(1;16)(p31;q24) NFIA/CBFA2T3 translocation. Haematologica. 2020 Apr; 105: e194-e197.
- Orgel E, Alexander TB, Wood BL, Kahwash SB, Devidas M, Dai Y, Alonzo TA, Mullighan CG, Inaba H, Hunger SP, Raetz EA, Gamis AS, Rabin KR, Carroll AJ 3rd, Heerema NA, Berman JN, Woods WG, Loh ML, Zweidler-McKay PA, Horan JT, Children’s Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force.. Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia: A cohort and consensus research strategy from the Children’s Oncology Group Acute Leukemia of Ambiguous Lineage Task Force. Cancer. 2020 Feb 1; 126: 593-601.
- Belsky JA, Audino AN, Kahwash SB. Separating Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Involving Marrow From Lymphoblastic Leukemia: It is Time to Update the CutOff Number. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2019 Nov; 41: 658-659.
- Carroll AJ, Shago M, Mikhail FM, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Loh ML, Raetz EA, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Maloney KW, Mattano LA Jr, Larsen EC, Gastier-Foster J, Stonerock E, Ell D, Kahwash S, Devidas M, Harvey RC, Chen IL, Willman CL, Hunger SP, Winick NJ, Carroll WL, Rao KW, Heerema NA. Masked hypodiploidy: Hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) mimicking hyperdiploid ALL in children: A report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Cancer Genet. 2019 Jul 30; 238: 62-68.
- McNeer JL, Devidas M, Dai Y, Carroll AJ, Heerema NA, Gastier-Foster JM, Kahwash SB, Borowitz MJ, Wood BL, Larsen E, Maloney KW, Mattano L, Winick NJ, Schultz KR, Hunger SP, Carroll WL, Loh ML, Raetz EA. Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Does Not Improve the Poor Outcome of Children With Hypodiploid Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From Children’s Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Apr 1; 37: 780-789.
- Rose GS, Arnold CA, Badizadegan K, Carter CM, Conces MR, Kahwash SB, Nicol KK, Arnold MA. Cytoplasmic Fibrillar Aggregates in Gallbladder Epithelium Are a Frequent Mimic of Cystoisospora in Pediatric Cholecystectomy Specimens. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2019 Apr 10;
- Woods GM, Pillay Smiley N, Stanek J, Kahwash S, Kerlin BA, O’Brien SH. Variation in Platelet Delta Granules Over Time in Young Women Undergoing Evaluation for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2019 Mar-Apr; 22: 123-127.
- Dvorak CC, Satwani P, Stieglitz E, Cairo MS, Dang H, Pei Q, Gao Y, Wall D, Mazor T, Olshen AB, Parker JS, Kahwash S, Hirsch B, Raimondi S, Patel N, Skeens M, Cooper T, Mehta PA, Grupp SA, Loh ML. Disease burden and conditioning regimens in ASCT1221, a randomized phase II trial in children with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia: A Children’s Oncology Group study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Jul; 65: e27034.
- Jacobson AE, Kahwash SB, Chawla A. Refractory cytopenias secondary to copper deficiency in children receiving exclusive jejunal nutrition. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Nov; 64:
- Guest EM, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Alonzo TA, Gerbing RB, Wang YJ, Kahwash SB, Heerema-McKenney A, Meshinchi S, Gamis AS. Gemtuzumab ozogamicin in infants with AML: results from the Children’s Oncology Group trials AAML03P1 and AAML0531. Blood. 2017 Aug 17; 130: 943-945.
- Tarlock K, Alonzo TA, Loken MR, Gerbing RB, Ries RE, Aplenc R, Sung L, Raimondi SC, Hirsch BA, Kahwash SB, McKenney A, Kolb EA, Gamis AS, Meshinchi S. Disease Characteristics and Prognostic Implications of Cell-Surface FLT3 Receptor (CD135) Expression in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jul 15; 23: 3649-3656.
- Conces M, Abu-Arja R, Reed S, Rangarajan HG, Guinipero TL, Loken MR, Brodersen LE, Kahwash SB. Acute Myeloid Leukemia with RAM Immunophenotype: A Pediatric Case with Unusual Morphologic Features. Hematol Rep. 2017 Jun 1; 9: 7057.
- Welch JJG, Schwartz CL, Higman M, Chen L, Buxton A, Kanakry JA, Kahwash SB, Hutchison RE, Friedman DL, Ambinder RF. Epstein-Barr virus DNA in serum as an early prognostic marker in children and adolescents with Hodgkin lymphoma. Blood Adv. 2017 Apr 25; 1: 681-684.
- Chen RW, Li H, Bernstein SH, Kahwash S, Rimsza LM, Forman SJ, Constine L, Shea TC, Cashen AF, Blum KA, Fenske TS, Barr PM, Phillips T, Leblanc M, Fisher RI, Cheson BD, Smith SM, Faham M, Wilkins J, Leonard JP, Kahl BS, Friedberg JW. RB but not R-HCVAD is a feasible induction regimen prior to auto-HCT in frontline MCL: results of SWOG Study S1106. Br J Haematol. 2017 Mar; 176: 759-769.
Education
Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 02/15/1994
Board Certifications
Anatomic Pathology Clinical Pathology Hematology Pediatric Pathology
Fellowship
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Date Completed: 06/30/1993
Fellowship
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1992
Residency
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1991
Internship
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 12/31/1983
Medical School
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 08/31/1983
Education
Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 02/15/1994
Board Certifications
Anatomic Pathology Clinical Pathology Hematology Pediatric Pathology
Fellowship
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Date Completed: 06/30/1993
Fellowship
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1992
Residency
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1991
Internship
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 12/31/1983
Medical School
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 08/31/1983
Education
Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 02/15/1994
Board Certifications
Anatomic Pathology Clinical Pathology Hematology Pediatric Pathology
Fellowship
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Date Completed: 06/30/1993
Fellowship
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1992
Residency
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1991
Internship
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 12/31/1983
Medical School
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 08/31/1983
Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 02/15/1994
Board Certifications
Anatomic Pathology Clinical Pathology Hematology Pediatric Pathology
Fellowship
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Date Completed: 06/30/1993
Fellowship
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1992
Residency
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1991
Internship
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 12/31/1983
Medical School
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 08/31/1983
Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 02/15/1994
Board Certifications
Anatomic Pathology Clinical Pathology Hematology Pediatric Pathology
Fellowship
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Date Completed: 06/30/1993
Fellowship
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1992
Residency
Medical College of Pennsylvania / Allegheny Genera
Date Completed: 06/30/1991
Internship
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 12/31/1983
Medical School
Damascus University Hospitals
Date Completed: 08/31/1983
- Anatomic Pathology
- Clinical Pathology
- Hematology
- Pediatric Pathology
Professional Experience
2014 - Present The Ohio State University, Professor – Clinical2000 - 2014 The Ohio State University, Associate Professor – Clinical
Professional Experience
2014 - Present The Ohio State University, Professor – Clinical2000 - 2014 The Ohio State University, Associate Professor – Clinical
Professional Experience
2014 - Present The Ohio State University, Professor – Clinical2000 - 2014 The Ohio State University, Associate Professor – Clinical
2014 - Present The Ohio State University, Professor – Clinical2000 - 2014 The Ohio State University, Associate Professor – Clinical
2014 - Present The Ohio State University, Professor – Clinical
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Contact Information
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Call us at: (614) 722-5450
Fax us at: (614) 722-2899
700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)
Contact Information
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Call us at: (614) 722-5450
Fax us at: (614) 722-2899
700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Call us at: (614) 722-5450
Fax us at: (614) 722-2899
700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)
Call us at: (614) 722-5450
Fax us at: (614) 722-2899
700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)
Call us at: (614) 722-5450
Fax us at: (614) 722-2899
700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)
- Call us at:
- (614) 722-5450
- Fax us at:
- (614) 722-2899
- 700 Childrens DrColumbus, OH 43205 (map)