Dr. Jawhar Rawwas

Children’s Minnesota

Dr. Rawwas is staff pediatric oncologist at Children’s Minnesota hospitals. His interests include Neuroblastoma and pediatric solid tumors and precision medicine applications in pediatric oncology.

Appointments: (612) 813-5940 to schedule.

2525 Chicago Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: (612) 813-5940
E-mail: jawhar.rawwas@childrensmn.org

Dr Rawwas is a Pediatric Oncologist with special interest in Neuroblastoma and other childhood solid tumors. For the last 11 years he has worked at Children’s Minnesota hospitals. Prior to this, he was on staff at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. Dr. Rawwas is board certified in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. He is also a member of the neuroblastoma biology subcommittee of the Children’s Oncology Group.

1982-1985	BS, Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
1985-1989	MD, Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
1989-1992	Pediatric Residency. State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY
1992-1995	Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Fellowship. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Chang CL, Zhu X, Thoraval DH, Ungar D, Rawwas J, Hora N, Strahler JR,Hanash SM, Radany E. nm23-H1 Mutation in Neuroblastoma. Nature 370:335-336, 1994.

Shulkin BL, Wieland DM, Baro ME, Ungar DR, Mitchell DS, Dole MG, Rawwas J, Castle VP, Sisson JC, Hutchinson RJ. PET Hydroxyephedrine Imaging of Neuroblastoma. J. Nuc. Med. 37: 16-21,1996.

Chun-Lin Chen, Jawhar Rawwas, April Sorrell, Linda Eddy and Fatih M Uckun. Bioavailability and Pharmacokinetic Features of Etoposide in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Patients. Leuk Lymphoma 2001 Jul;42(3):317-27.

Anu Gupta , Bryan RG Williams , Samir M. Hanash and Jawhar Rawwas. Cellular Retinoic Acid*Binding Protein II Is a Direct Transcriptional Target of MycN in Neuroblastoma. Cancer Res 2006 Aug 15; (66): 8100-8108

Anu Gupta, Patricia Kessler, Jawhar Rawwas and Bryan R.G. Williams.
Regulation of CRABP-II expression by MycN in Wilms tumor. Exp Cell Res. 2008 Dec 10;314(20):3663-8.

Pinto N, Mayfield JR, Raca G, Applebaum MA, Chlenski A, Sukhanova M, Bagatell R, Irwin MS, Little A, Rawwas J, Gosiengifiao Y, Delattre O, Janoueix-Lerosey I, Lapouble E, Schleiermacher G and Cohn SL. Segmental Chromosomal Aberrations in Localized Neuroblastoma Can be Detected in Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissue Samples and Are Associated With Recurrence. Pediatric Blood Cancer. 2016 Jun; 63(6):1019-23.