Research Summary

Dr. Lena Winestone is clinically focused on pediatric blood and marrow transplant for high risk leukemias. Dr. Winestone's research explores racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in access to care and outcome of leukemia and lymphoma treatment. She studies access to care across the continuum of pediatric cancer from diagnosis and clinical trial enrollment through treatment and relapse to salvage therapies. Her research has shown that African American children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, and mature B cell lymphoma are two times more likely to present with organ failure at the time of a new cancer diagnosis. Her ongoing work investigates access to highly specialized and complex therapies such as stem cell transplant, chimeric antigen receptor T cells, and MIBG therapy.

Research Funding

  • July 1, 2020 - January 20, 2021 - Barriers to Care Questionnaire for Pediatric Patients with Leukemia, Principal Investigator. Sponsor: American Society of Hematology, Sponsor Award ID:
  • June 15, 2020 - January 20, 2021 - Work Flexibility and Financial Impact Among Families of Children with Cancer, Supervisor. Sponsor: UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute, Sponsor Award ID:
  • February 1, 2020 - January 20, 2021 - Access to MIBG Therapy for High Risk Neuroblastoma Patients, Principal Investigator. Sponsor: American Cancer Society, Sponsor Award ID:
  • December 1, 2018 - January 20, 2021 - In Depth Interviews regarding the Path to a Leukemia Diagnosis, Principal Investivator. Sponsor: Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation, Sponsor Award ID:

Education

University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 2000-2004, Biochemistry
University of Pennsylvania, M.S., 2002-2004, Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine, M.D., 2005-2009, Medicine
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Residency, 2009-2012, Pediatrics
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Fellowship, 2013-2016, Hematology/Oncology
University of Pennsylvania, M.S., 2014-2016, Health Policy

Honors & Awards

  • 2000
    Vagelos Scholars Fellowship in Molecular Life Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2004
    Helix Prize, University of Pennsylvania Biochemistry Program
  • 2006
    Medical Scholars Research Fellowship, Stanford Medical School
  • 2006
    Fulbright-Hays Fellowship–Intensive Advanced Swahili, U.S. Department of Education
  • 2007
    Traveling Scholar Research Fellowship, Stanford Medical School
  • 2008
    Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education
  • 2010 - 2012
    Mary Duke Biddle Clinical Scholars Program
  • 2011 - 2012
    Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholars Program
  • 2015
    Children's Oncology Group Young Investigator Abstract Award
  • 2015
    American Society of Hematology Abstract Achievement Award
  • 2016
    Paul Calabresi Career Development Award for Clinical Oncology, Abramson Cancer Center
  • 2016
    Clinical Research Training Institute, American Society of Hematology
  • 2016
    Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation Young Investigator Award
  • 2016
    Bear Necessities Fellow Award

Selected Publications

  1. Ibrahimova A, Winestone LE, Miller TP, Kettler K, Seif AE, Huang YS, Elgarten CW, Myers RM, Fisher BT, Aplenc R, Getz KD Presentation acuity, induction mortality, and resource utilization in infants with acute leukemia.  View on PubMed
  2. Wolfson JA, Bhatia S, Ginsberg J, Becker LK, Bernstein D, Henk HJ, Lyman GH, Nathan PC, Puccetti D, Wilkes JJ, Winestone LE, Kenzik KM Expenditures among young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia by site of care.  View on PubMed
  3. Chow EJ, Doody DR, Wilkes JJ, Becker LK, Chennupati S, Morin PE, Winestone LE, Henk HJ, Lyman GH Adverse events among chronic myelogenous leukemia patients treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors: a real-world analysis of health plan enrollees.  View on PubMed
  4. Bona K, Li Y, Winestone LE, Getz KD, Huang YS, Fisher BT, Desai AV, Richardson T, Hall M, Naranjo A, Henderson TO, Aplenc R, Bagatell R Poverty and Targeted Immunotherapy: Survival in Children's Oncology Group Clinical Trials for High-Risk Neuroblastoma.  View on PubMed
  5. Christine S Higham, Alexis Melton, Sandhya Kharbanda, Jasmeen Dara, Lena E. Winestone, James N Huang, Kristin A. Shimano A Pilot Trial of Pre-Transplant Risk Stratification and Prophylactic Defibrotide to Prevent Serious Thrombotic Microangiopathy in High-Risk Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients.  View on PubMed
  6. Lena E. Winestone, Qian Li, Lori S. Muffly, Kelly D Getz, Elysia Alvarez, Ted Wun, Theresa Keegan Disparities in the Use of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults with Acute Leukemia in California.  View on PubMed
  7. Winestone LE, Hochman LL, Sharpe JE, Alvarez E, Becker L, Chow EJ, Reiter JG, Ginsberg JP, Silber JH Impact of Dependent Coverage Provision of the Affordable Care Act on Insurance Continuity for Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer.  View on PubMed
  8. Wilkes JJ, Lyman GH, Doody DR, Chennupati S, Becker LK, Morin PE, Winestone LE, Henk HJ, Chow EJ Health Care Cost Associated With Contemporary Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Therapy Compared With That of Other Hematologic Malignancies.  View on PubMed
  9. Dandoy CE, Davies SM, Ahn KW, He Y, Kolb AE, Levine J, Bo-Subait S, Abdel-Azim H, Bhatt N, Chewing J, Gadalla S, Gloude N, Hayashi R, Lalefar NR, Law J, MacMillan M, O'Brien T, Prestidge T, Sharma A, Shaw P, Winestone L, Eapen M Comparison of total body irradiation versus non- total body irradiation containing regimens for de novo acute myeloid leukemia in children.  View on PubMed
  10. Julie Anna Wolfson, Smita Bhatia, Jill P. Ginsberg, Laura Becker, David Bernstein, Henry J. Henk, Gary H. Lyman, Paul C. Nathan, Diane Puccetti, Jennifer J Wilkes, Lena Winestone, Kelly Kenzik Health plan expenditures young adults with newly-diagnosed Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) by care at NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers (CCC) vs. other treatment sites (non-CCC).  View on PubMed
  11. Cahen VC, Li Y, Getz KD, Elgarten CW, DiNofia AM, Wilkes JJ, Winestone LE, Huang YV, Miller TP, Gramatges MM, Rabin KR, Fisher BT, Aplenc R, Seif AE Identifying relapses and stem cell transplants in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia using administrative data: Capturing national outcomes irrespective of trial enrollment.  View on PubMed
  12. Penumarthy NL, Goldsby RE, Shiboski SC, Wustrack R, Murphy P, Winestone LE Insurance impacts survival for children, adolescents, and young adults with bone and soft tissue sarcomas.  View on PubMed
  13. Friend BD, Bailey-Olson M, Melton A, Shimano KA, Kharbanda S, Higham C, Winestone LE, Huang J, Stieglitz E, Dvorak CC The impact of total body irradiation-based regimens on outcomes in children and young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.  View on PubMed
  14. Lena E. Winestone, Kelly D Getz, Kira O Bona, Brian T. Fisher, Alan S Gamis, Alix E. Seif, Lillian Sung, Yi-Cheng Wang, Todd A. Alonzo, Richard Aplenc Area-Based Socioeconomic Disparities in Survival of Children with Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Report from the Children's Oncology Group.  View on PubMed
  15. Tamara P. Miller, Kelly D Getz, Biniyam Demissei, Karen R. Rabin, Marla Daves, Philip J. Lupo, Michael E. Scheurer, Evanette Burrows, Brian T. Fisher, Robert W. Grundmeier, Judy Lee, Jennifer J. Wilkes, Lena E. Winestone, Maria Monica J. Gramatges, Richard Aplenc Rates of Laboratory Adverse Events By Chemotherapy Course for Pediatric Acute Leukemia Patients within the Leukemia Electronic Abstraction of Records Network (LEARN).  View on PubMed
  16. Winestone L, Cabana MD 50 Years Ago in TheJournal ofPediatrics: Fifty-Two Forms of Childhood Cancer, United States Mortality Experience, 1960-1966.  View on PubMed
  17. Winestone LE, Aplenc R Disparities in Survival and Health Outcomes in Childhood Leukemia.  View on PubMed
  18. Elysia Marie Alvarez, Lena Winestone, Jeffrey McPheeters, Diane Puccetti, Jennifer Jill Wilkes, Henry J. Henk, Smita Bhatia, Jill P. Ginsberg, Theresa Keegan, Brad H. Pollock Factors impacting time to diagnosis in pediatric, adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients with solid tumors.  View on PubMed
  19. Winestone LE, Getz KD, Rao P, Li Y, Hall M, Huang YV, Seif AE, Fisher BT, Aplenc R Disparities in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) clinical trial enrollment.  View on PubMed
  20. Muffly L, Li Q, Alvarez E, Kahn J, Winestone L, Cress R, Penn DC, Keegan THM Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Young Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A United States Population-Level Analysis.  View on PubMed

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