Biljana Horn, MD (aka Novakovic)

Medical School of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, M.D., 1978-1983, Medicine
Medical School of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, M.P.H., 1984-1988, Pediatrics and Public Health
University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio, 1988-1991, Pediatrics
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1991-1994, Hematology-Oncology
UCSF, San Francisco, California, 1997-1998, Neuro-Oncology

• 1992-95
  Urgent Care Pediatrics, Kaiser Permanente, Washington DC
• 1993-94
  Pediatric Emergency Room Attending, St Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, MD
• 1994-95
  Assistant Professor of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC
• 1996
  General Pediatric Practice, Kaiser Permanente, Northern California
• 1996
  Clinical Practice, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Valley Children's Hospital, Fresno, CA
• 1998-Present
  Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program, University of California, San Francisco, CA

• 1993
  Brigit Leventhal Merit Award for Research in Oncology
• 1994
  AACR Travel Award for Research in Oncology

• Novakovic B, Mitak M., Lang S. Survey of Women's knowledge and attitues about cancer in 1974 and 1981. Libri Oncologici. 1982;1:5-21.
• Mitak M, Lung S, Novakovic B. Ethical and social priorities selected by first-year medical students. Lijecnicki Vjesnik. 1982; 104:123-130.
• Lang S, Novakovic B, Mitak M. Problems in informing women about genital cancer. Srpski Arhiv. 1983;6:741-751. (ref. 15, French summary)
• Vujic M, Novakovic B, Bunarevic A, Derezic D. Pathohistological diagnoses of malignant tumors of the male genito-urinary system. Rad Med Fak Zagrebu. 1985;2-3:99-104.
• Nasic M, Novakovic B, Milicic D, Lang S. Indidence and mortality rates of childhood leukemia and lymphoma inCroatia from 1968-1975. Rad Med Fak Zagrebu. 1985;2-3:113-118.
• Novakovic B, Nasic M, Mitak M, Barsic E, Lang S. The preceived quality of childbirth: pain and pleasure. Lijecnicki Vjesnik. 1986;108:101-104.
• Novakovic B, Nasic M, Juresa V. The role of the guidance clinic in controlling arterial hypertension in rural areas. Medicinar. 1986;1:11-17.
• Vujic B, Novakovic B, Marekovic Z, Derezic D. Epidemiological characteristics of kidney, renal, pelvis and ureter malignany tumors in SR Croatia (from 1968-1975), and clinical aspects of the disease. Rad Med Fak Zagrebu. 1986;27:13-18.
• Vujic M, Novakovic B, Marekovic Z, Derezic D, Cecuk Lj. Malignant tumors of the testis and penis epidemiological and clinical aspects. Libri Oncologici. 1986;15:105-112
• Sosic Z, Juresa V, Marinkovic M, Nasic M, Ivankovic D, Novakovic B. A comprehensive progrm for combating non-infectious disease in basic population groups. The Belec study 2 intervention against hypertension. Lijecnicki Vjesnik. 1987;109:1-6.
• Nasic M, Novakovic B, Juresa V, Sosic Z, Stavljenic A, Vuletic S. A comprehensive program for combating non-infectious disease in basic population groups The Belec study 3 clinical examination of hypertensive patients. Lijecnicki Vjesnik. 1987;109:1-5.
• Novakovic B. Analysis of of ethical dilemmas in pediatric practice. Archive ZMD. 1987;31:197-203.
• Novakovic B, Kolacek S, Roje M, Boko H. Pediatric emergecny room indicators of appropriate usage. Zdravstvo. 1988;30:5-17.
• Novakovic B. US Childhood cancer surcical, 1973-1987. Medical and Pediatric Oncology. 1984;23:480-486.
• Novakovic B, Goldstein A, Wexler L, Tucker M. Increased risk of neuroectodermal tumors and stomach cancer in family members of patients with Ewing's sarcoma family tumors. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 1994;86:1702-1707.
• Miller RW, Young JL, Novakovic B. Childhood cancer incidence and prognosis by histologic type: SEER population based data, 1973-1987. Cancer. 1994;75:395-405.
• Novakovic B, Clark WH, Fears TR, Fraser MC, Tucker MA. Melancoytic nevi, dysplastic nevi and malignant melanoma in children from melanoma-prone families. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 1995;33:631-636.
• Novakovic B, Fears TR, Wexler LH, McClure LL, Wilson DL, McCalla JL, Tucker MA. Experiences of adolescents with Ewing's sarcoma family tumors. Cancer Nursing. 1996;19:54-59.
• Haupt R, Novakovic B, Fears TR, Byrne J, Robison LL, Tucker MA, Reaman GH. Can protocol speficied doses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy be used as a measure of treatment actually received? A CCG/NIH study on long-term survivors of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 1996;49:687-690.
• Novakovic B, Goldstein AM, Tucker MA. Validation of family history of cancer is decesased family members. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 1996;88:1492-1493.
• Novakovic B, Fears TR, Horowitz ME, Tucker MA, Wexler LH. Late effects of therapy in survivors of Ewing's sarcoma family tumor. Jorunal of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology. 1997;19:220-225.
• Horn B, Heideman R, Geyer R, Pollack I, Packer R, Goldwein J, Tomita T, Schomberg P, Ater J, Luchtman-Jones L, Rivlin K, Lamborn K, Prados M, Bollen A, Berger N, Dahl F, McNeil E, Patterson K, Shwa D, Kubalik M, Russo C. A multi-institutional study of intracranial ependymoma in children: Identification of Risk Factors. Journal of Pediatrics Hematology-Oncology. 1999;21:203-211.
• Horn B, Viele M, Mentzer W, Mogck N, DeSantes K, Cowan M. Autoimmune hemolytic anemia in patients with SCID after T-cell depleted BM and PBSC transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant. 1999;24:1009-1013.
• Smyth MD, Horn BN, Russo C, Berger MS. Intracranial ependymomas of childhood: current management strategies. Pediatric Neurosurgery 2000;33:138-150.
• O'Marcaigh, AS, DeSantes K, Hu D, Pabst H, Horn B, Li L, Cowan MJ. Bone Marrow Transplantation for T-B- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease in Athabascan-Speaking Native Americans, Bone Marrow Transplantation, 2001;27:703-709.
• Horn BN, Reiss U, Mattthay K, McMillan A, Cowan M. Veno-occlusive liver disease in children with solid tumors undergoing autologous hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation: The high incidence of disease in patients with neuroblastoma. Bone Marrow Transplantation, 2002;29:409-415.
• Machatschek J, Duda J, Matthay K, Cowan M, Horn B. Immune Reconstitution, Infectious Complications and Post-Transplant Supportive Care Measures After autologous blood and marrow transplantation in children. Bone Marrow Transplantation 2003;32:687-693.