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POE Lunch & Learn Series 2025

The POE Lunch & Learn series is required for all POE students. All St. Jude personnel are most welcome to attend. Attendees are to bring their own lunch. The location will vary, but will be announced in St. Jude Today.

Day

Date

Speaker 

Topic

Tuesday

5/27/25

Victor Santana, MD

St. Jude: Past, Present, and Future

Wednesday

5/28/25

Brittany Cowfer, MD

Pediatric Leukemia

Thursday

5/29/25

Gabriela Gheorghe, MD

The Laboratory Diagnosis of Pediatric Leukemias

Friday

5/30/25

Motomi Mori, PhD, MBA

Biostatistics

Monday

6/2/25

Gerard Zambetti, PhD

Responsible Conduct of Research

Tuesday

6/3/25

Gabriela Maron Alfaro, MD

Ethical Issues in Pediatric Research 

Wednesday

6/4/25

Matt Ehrhardt, MD, MD

Pediatric Lymphomas

Thursday

6/5/25

Todd Tillmanns, MD, FACOG, West Cancer Center & Research Institute

Adult Oncology

Friday

6/6/25

Beth Stewart, MD 

Pediatric Body Tumors

Monday

6/9/25

Andrew Davidoff, MD 

Pediatric Surgical Oncology

Tuesday

6/10/25

Kara Parikh, MD

Pediatric Brain and Spine (CNS) Tumor Surgery

Wednesday

6/11/25

St. Jude Graduate School Deans

The St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences 

Thursday

6/12/25

Brent Orr, MD, PhD 

The Role of the Surgical Pathologist in Pediatric Cancer Diagnosis 

Friday

6/13/25

Brooke Bernhardt, PharmD

Chemotherapy in Pediatric Oncology

Monday

6/16/25

Zachary Abramson, MD, DMD

Diagnostic Imaging in Pediatric Oncology

Tuesday

6/17/25

Michael Frett, MD 

Anesthesia and Pain Management in Pediatric Oncology

Wednesday

6/18/25

St. Jude Panelists

St. Jude Career Paths

Thursday

6/19/25

St. Jude Holiday

St. Jude Holiday

Friday

6/20/25

St. Jude Panelists

St. Jude Career Paths

Monday

6/23/25

Lisa Jacola, PhD

Psychology in Pediatric Oncology

Tuesday

6/24/25

Paulina Velasquez, MD and Swati Naik, MBBS

Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Wednesday

6/25/25

Christopher Tinkle, MD, PhD

Radiation Therapy in Pediatric Oncology

Thursday

6/26/25

Jinghui Zhang, PhD

Computational Biology in Cancer Research

Friday

6/27/25

Charles Mullighan, MBBS(Hons), MSc, MD

The Genetics of Leukemia

Monday

6/30/25

Gerard Zambetti, PhD 

The p53 Tumor Suppressor Signaling Pathway and Cancer

Tuesday

7/1/25

Paul Thomas, PhD 

Immunotherapy in the treatment of pediatric cancer 

Wednesday

7/2/25

Suzanne Baker, PhD 

Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Infant High-Grade Glioma

Thursday

7/3/25

No Lunch & Learn

No Lunch & Learn

Friday

7/4/25

St. Jude Holiday

St. Jude Holiday

Monday

7/7/25

Hana Hakim, MD 

Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Oncology

Tuesday

7/8/25

Alexis Leonard, MD

Sickle Cell Disease

Wednesday

7/9/25

Deena Levine, MD

Integrating Palliative Care into Pediatric Oncology Practice

Thursday

7/10/25

Kim Nichols, MD

Cancer Predisposition

Friday

7/11/25

Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD 

Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Worldwide: the St. Jude Contribution

Monday

7/14/25

Diego Hijano, MD, MSc

Lessons from the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Pandemic

Tuesday

7/15/25

Stephanie Dixon, MD

Late Effects in Childhood Cancer Survivors: The Cost of Cure

Wednesday

7/16/25

Aditya Gaur, MD

HIV

Thursday

7/17/25

POE project reports

 

Friday

7/18/25

POE project reports

 

Monday

7/21/25

POE project reports

 

Tuesday

7/22/25

POE project reports

 

Wednesday

7/23/25

POE project reports

 

Thursday

7/24/25

POE project reports

 

Friday

7/25/25

POE project reports

 

Monday

7/28/25

POE project reports

 

Tuesday

7/29/25

POE project reports

 

Wednesday

7/30/25

POE project reports

 

Thursday

7/31/25

POE project reports

 

Friday

8/1/25

POE project reports

 

Monday

8/4/25

POE project reports

 

Tuesday

8/5/25

POE project reports

 

Wednesday

8/6/25

POE project reports

 

Thursday

8/7/25

POE project reports

 

Friday

8/8/25

POE project reports

 
 
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