Our multidisciplinary Pediatric Lymphoma Service provides comprehensive care to children, adolescents, and young adults diagnosed with many types of lymphoma. Our pediatric physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and other specialists collaborate to maximize your child’s chance of a cure. Our patients see the same team of healthcare professionals during their entire lymphoma treatment process. This integrated care is personalized to each child’s and family’s needs.
As active members of the treatment team, nurse practitioners and nurses play an essential role in caring for children and young adults. Nurses bring extraordinary knowledge, experience, and expertise to patient care, and will help you and your child through your inpatient or outpatient experience at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Our social workers stay in close contact with families to meet any practical and psychosocial needs. Social workers provide counseling, information, and assistance throughout the course of treatment, and can direct you to additional resources. Our child life specialists, teachers, patient and program coordinators, and session and physician-office assistants also work together to help your child and family in the hospital and at home during treatment periods.
Find more information about our experts below. To make an appointment, please call the Department of Pediatrics at 833-MSK-KIDS.
Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologists
![Christopher J. Forlenza, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/39545/1x1/forlenza_150429_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Physician
![Kavitha Ramaswamy, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/135118/1x1/ramaswamy_170208_02_1x1.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Pediatrician
![Memorial Sloan Kettering pediatric hematologic oncologist Neerav Shukla](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/581/1x1/shukla-neerav_201001_012-1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Chief, Pediatric Translational Medicine Service (PTMS); Bristol-Myers Squibb/James D. Robinson III Junior Faculty Chair
![Memorial Sloan Kettering pediatric oncologist Maria Luisa Sulis](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/167896/1x1/sulis_190214_20_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Chief, Pediatric Hematologic Malignancies Service
![Memorial Sloan Kettering pediatric hematologic oncologist Tanya Trippett](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/639/1x1/trippett-tanya_180523_04_1200x1200_0.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Associate Attending Pediatrician
Pediatric Surgeons
![Memorial Sloan Kettering Pediatric Surgeon Enrico Danzer](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/236671/1x1/danzer-enrico_210920_14-1200x1200-1.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Surgeon
![Memorial Sloan Kettering pediatric surgeon J. Ted Gerstle](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/159919/1x1/gerstle_justin_in-situ_horizontal_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Chief, Pediatric Surgical Service
![Joshua Honeyman](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/264191/1x1/honeyman-joshua-221026-06_rt_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Surgeon
![Michael P. La Quaglia, MD, FACS, FRCS](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/361/1x1/laquaglia_170207_23-1x1.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Joseph H. Burchenal Chair in Pediatrics
Pediatric Radiation Oncologists
![Memorial Sloan Kettering radiation oncologist Suzanne Wolden](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/668/1x1/wolden-suzanne-230829-015_rt_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Director, Pediatric Radiation Oncology
Psychosocial Support Specialists
![Memorial Sloan Kettering psychologist Marie Barnett](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/208399/main_image/barnett_170907_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Psychologist
![Memorial Sloan Kettering Psychologist Laura Cimini](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/219508/1x1/cimini-laura_210518_08-1200x1200-1.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Assistant Attending Psychologist, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Assistant Faculty (Level I), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Assistant Professor
![Julia A. Kearney, MD](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/208402/main_image/kearney_170721_02_3x2.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Clinical Director, Pediatric PsychoOncology Program
![Memorial Sloan Kettering child psychologist Stephen Sands](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/131935/1x1/sands_stephen_in-situ_original-1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Director, Pediatric Neuropsychology
Clinical Trials Nurses
Clinical Trials Nurse
Child Life Specialists
![Jessica Anenberg](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/209056/main_image/anenberg_jessica_in-situ_horizontal_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Child Life Specialist
Advanced Practice Providers
![Maura Byrnes-Casey](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/11644/image/byrnes-casey-maura.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Nurse Practitioner
![Lauren Kushner](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/11645/image/kushner-lauren.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Nurse Practitioner
![Kateri McGuire](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/11646/image/mcguire-kateri.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Nurse Practitioner
![Marjorie Weis, DNP, MPH, CPNP](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/145960/3x2/weis-marjorie_180523_05_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Nurse Practitioner
Social Workers
![Stephanie Fronduto](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/180388/main_image/fronduto-stephanie-230621-09_rt-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Clinical Social Worker