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Dr. William Roberts
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
[/cs_text][cs_text]Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
University of California San Diego School of Medicine
Medical Director, Peckham Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
VP/Medical Director, Children’s Specialists San Diego
Appointments: (858) 966-5811 to schedule.
3020 Children’s Way, MC 5035
San Diego, CA 92123
Phone: (858) 966-5811
E-mail: wroberts@rchsd.org[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section parallax=”false” separator_top_type=”none” separator_top_height=”50px” separator_top_angle_point=”50″ separator_bottom_type=”none” separator_bottom_height=”50px” separator_bottom_angle_point=”50″ style=”margin: 0px;padding: 0 0px 45px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_tab_nav type=”three-up” float=”top”][x_tab_nav_item title=”Background” active=”true”][x_tab_nav_item title=”Education” active=”true”][x_tab_nav_item title=”Selected Publications” active=”false”][/x_tab_nav][x_tabs][x_tab active=”true”]Dr. Roberts is the Division Chief of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California San Diego, and the Medical Director of the Peckham Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. He has been a Hematologist/Oncologist for 25 years and has participated in a wide variety of clinical trials. He served as the vice-chair of COG A9952, a group-wide Phase III study of Low-Grade Astrocytoma. He is currently a study committee member for several Beat Childhood Cancer (formerly NMTRC) clinical trials. He is the Rady Children’s Hospital Principal Investigator for the Beat Childhood Cancer Consortium and the Children’s Oncology Group. He has also worked in the area of international outreach to develop models for successful implementation of joint Pediatric Oncology Programs in Mexico and the US.
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September 1976 – May 1980 |
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA Bachelor of Science, Biology, cum laude |
September 1982 – May 1986 |
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Doctor of Medicine |
June 1986 – June 1989 |
Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI Pediatric Residency |
July 1989 – June 1992 |
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, USC, Los Angeles, CA Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship |
[/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]Aristizabal P, Burns L, Rivera-Gomez R, Levy ML, Roberts W, Crawford JR. Medulloblastoma With Extensive Nodularity: Tailored Therapy in a Low-resource Setting. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2017 Mar 6. doi: 10.1097 [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 28267079
Aristizabal P, Fuller S, Rivera-Gomez R, Ornelas M, Nuno L, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Ribeiro R, Roberts W. Addressing regional disparities in pediatric oncology: Results of a collaborative initiative across the Mexican-North American border. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2016 Dec 21. doi: 10.1002/pbc.26387. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 28000395
Mitchell D, Bergendahl G, Ferguson W, Roberts W, Higgins T, Ashikaga T, DeSarno M, Kaplan J, Kraveka J, Eslin D, Werff AV, Hanna GK, Sholler GL. A phase 1 trial of TPI 287 as a single agent and in combination with temozolomide in patients with refractory or recurrent neuroblastoma or medulloblastoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015 Jul 31; doi: 0.1002/pbc.25687.
PMID: 26235333
Aristizabal P, Fuller S, Rivera R, Beyda D, Ribeiro RC, Roberts W. Improving Pediatric Cancer Care Disparities across the United States – Mexico Border: Lessons Learned from a Transcultural Partnership between San Diego and Tijuana. Front. Public Health. 2015 Jun 22; 3:159. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00159. PMID: 26157788
Saulnier Sholler GL, Gerner EW, Bergendahl G, MacArthur RB, VanderWerff A, Ashikaga T, Bond JP, Ferguson W, Roberts W, Wada RK, Eslin D, Kraveka JM, Kaplan J, Mitchell D, Parikh NS, Neville K, Sender L, Higgins T, Kawakita M, Hiramatsu K, Moriya SS, Bachmann AS. A Phase I Trial of DFMO Targeting Polyamine Addiction in Patients with Relapsed/Refractory Neuroblastoma. PLoS One. 2015 May 27; 10(5):e0127246. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127246. PMID: 26018967
Saulnier Sholler GL, Bond JP, Bergendahl G, Dutta A, Dragon J, Neville K, Ferguson W, Roberts W, Eslin D, Kraveka J, Kaplan J, Mitchell D, Parikh N, Merchant M, Ashikaga T, Hanna G, Lescault PJ, Siniard A, Corneveaux J, Huentelman M, Trent J. Feasibility of implementing molecular-guided therapy for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory neuroblastoma. Cancer Med. 2015 Feb 26. doi: 10.1002/cam4.436. PMID: 25720842
Kang Y, Hodges A, Ong O, Roberts W, Piermarocchi C, Paternostro G. Identification of Drug Combinations Containing Imatinib for Treatment of BCR-ABL+ Leukemias. PLoS One, 2014 Jul 16; 9(7):e102221. doi: 10.137/journal.pone.012221. eCollection 2014. PMID: 25029499
Walsh KM, de Smith AJ, Welch TC, Smirnov I, Cunningham MJ, Ma X, Chokkalingam AP, Dahl GV, Roberts W, Barcellos LF, Buffler PA, Metayer C, Wiemels JL. Genomic ancestry and somatic alterations correlate with age at diagnosis in Hispanic children with B-cell ALL. American Journal of Hematology, 2014 Apr 3. doi: 10.1002/ajh.23727. PMID: 24753091
Huang JS, Dillon L, Terrones L, Schubert L, Roberts W, Finklestein J, Swartz MC, Norman GJ, Patrick K. Fit4Life: A Weight Loss Intervention for Children who have survived Childhood Leukemia. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 2014 Jan 16. doi: 10.1002/pbc.24937. PMID: 24436138
Tiziani S, Kang Y, Harjanto R, Axelrod J, Piermarocchi C, Roberts W, Paternostro G.
Metabolomics of the Tumor Microenvironment in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. PLoS One, 2013 Dec 13;8(12):e82859. PMID: 24349380
Walsh KM, de Smith AJ, Chokkalingam AP, Metayer C, Roberts W, Barcellos LF, Wiemels JL, Buffler PA. GATA3 risk alleles are associated with ancestral components in Hispanic Children with ALL. Blood, 2013 Nov 7;122(19):3385-7. PMID: 24203929
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