Leadership
David Poplack, M.D.
Director
Texas Children's Cancer Center
Elise C. Young Professor of Pediatric Oncology
Head, Hematology-Oncology Section
Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Deputy Director
Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Poplack is the Director of the Texas Children’s Cancer Center and Deputy Director of BCM’s Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center. He is Principal Investigator of an NCI K12 Pediatric Oncology Clinical Research Training Grant. Dr. Poplack has authored 357 original articles and book chapters relating to pediatric oncology and serves on the editorial board of numerous subspecialty journals. He is co-editor of Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology, the leading textbook of pediatric oncology, which is in its sixth edition. He has also served on numerous NIH, FDA and Institute of Medicine Committees. Dr. Poplack is a member of the National Cancer Institutes’ Board of Scientific Counselors.
Welcome Letter from Dr. Poplack
Susan Blaney, M.D.
Vice Chair for Research
Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Deputy Director
Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers
Martha Ann and Harold M. Selzman, M.D. Endowed Chair
Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Associate Director for Clinical Research
Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Co-Director, Clinical Pharmacology Program
Texas Children's Cancer Center
Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology
Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Susan Blaney is the Co-Director of the Clinical Pharmacology Program at Texas Children’s Cancer Center. She performs pre-clinical and clinical studies of new antineoplastic agents and serves as the Chair for Developmental Therapeutics for the Children’s Oncology Group. A primary focus of her research is the development of new drugs for the treatment of central nervous system tumors in children with a particular emphasis on the development of new agents for intrathecal administration.