St. Jude INSIDER
Spotlight Series

Scientific Symposium

Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time: 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m. ET)

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Event Information

  

You’re invited to join an exclusive group of our most loyal supporters for a special virtual Scientific Symposium featuring world-renowned St. Jude researchers.

You have to the opportunity to virtually gather with like-minded friends and glimpse the excellent work that occurs here on behalf of children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases — work that that is made possible by supporters like you. We hope you see the impact of your generosity, as well as how additional investments can help advance cures even further. 

We look forward to having you tune in to this wonderful symposium featuring exceptional and engaging St. Jude scientists.

 

Featured St. Jude researchers

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Giles W. Robinson, MD

Director, Division of Neuro-Oncology

10 a.m. CT

 
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Heather C. Mefford, MD, PhD

Department of Cell & Molecular Biology

10:30 a.m. CT

 
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Akshay Sharma, MBBS, MSc.

Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy

11:10 a.m. CT

 
 
 
 

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Asya Agulnik, M.D., M.P.H., is an assistant faculty member at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care. Agulnik is the Director of the St. Jude Global Critical Care Program and Euro Regional Program. She is Director of SAFER Ukraine, an effort to evacuate Ukrainian children with cancer and blood disorders affected by war.

Agulnik lives in Memphis. Tennessee, where St. Jude is located, with her husband and two sons. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 2005. She earned a Master of Public Health degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008 and obtained her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine in 2010.

Agulnik completed her residency (2013) in pediatrics through the Boston Combined Residency Program (Harvard and affiliated hospitals). She also completed a pediatric critical care fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2016. That year, Agulnik joined the St. Jude faculty.

Agulnik is a clinician scientist, with clinical work in the intensive care unit at St. Jude and research focused on global implementation science and improving hospital care for critically ill children with cancer.  Aglunik leads St. Jude’s Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS), called the St. Jude Advanced Warning System (sJAWS), aimed to help identify hospitalized patients who are at high risk for clinical deterioration. Through the St. Jude Global Critical Care Program, she has supported implementation of PEWS in over 70 centers in Latin American through Proyecto EVAT. 

In 2018, Agulnik worked with regional stakeholders to start the St. Jude Global Eurasian Regional Program (now called the Euro Regional Program), which has grown to include nearly 50 institutions in 15 countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, including Ukraine and Poland. This collaborative program facilitated a prompt response to the war in Ukraine in February, 2022, now called the “Supporting Action for Emergency Respnose in Ukraine (SAFER Ukraine)” program, which Agulnik directs. 

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