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Jennifer Michlitsch

Jennifer Michlitsch

MD

Pediatric hematologist-oncologist

Dr. Jennifer Michlitsch is a specialist in pediatric blood diseases whose focus is on caring for children with sarcomas, cancerous tumors in bone or other tissues. She has a special interest in treating patients with relapsed sarcomas and other childhood cancers.

Michlitsch's research focuses on new treatments for children with relapsed and treatment-resistant cancers. She has a particular interest in bringing these therapies to all patients at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, regardless of socioeconomic status.

Michlitsch earned her medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and a fellowship in pediatric hematology and oncology at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.

Michlitsch is a member of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children's Oncology Group (COG) and COG's young investigator mentorship program.

  • Board Certifications

    American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, 2011

  • Fellowships

    UCSF, Ped. Hema/Oncology, 2009

  • Residencies

    Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Pediatrics, 2004

  • Degree

    University of Southern California/Hoag Hospital, 2001

  • Languages

    English

Where I see patients (5)

    Decorative Caduceus

    Project: Every Child for Younger Patients With Cancer

    The number of patients who agree to be in the Biobanking part of the study and have leftover tumor tissue and some normal blood, bone marrow, or other tissue saved for future research.

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    Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Very Low-Risk and Low Risk Fusi...

    The Kaplan-Meier method will be used to estimate 3-year FFS along with 80% log-minus-log transformed confidence limits for very low risk (VLR) patients.

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    Inotuzumab Ozogamicin and Post-Induction Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With High-Risk B-ALL...

    Improvement in 5-year disease-free survival (DFS) with modified Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster (mBFM) chemotherapy without delayed intensification (DI) part 2 but with inotuzumab ozogamicin, versus full mBFM chemotherapy backbone includ...

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    Dinutuximab With Chemotherapy, Surgery and Stem Cell Transplantation for the Treatment of Child...

    EFS time is calculated from time of randomization to Arms A or B to first episode of disease relapse or progression, second malignancy, or death, or until last contact if no event has occurred.

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    A Study to Learn More About the Health of Persons With Down Syndrome After Treatment for Acute ...

    Summary statistics will be used to characterize the study populations on CHC outcomes. Quantitative data (number of comorbidities) will be summarized using descriptive statistics and correlational techniques. Will use pooled logis...

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    The Pediatric Acute Leukemia (PedAL) Screening Trial - A Study to Test Bone Marrow and Blood in...

    The proportion will be calculated as the percent of eligible patients who are identified to have an a priori specified genomic or immunophenotypic target and who enroll on at least one of the sub-trials. The corresponding confiden...

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    Studying the Effect of Levocarnitine in Protecting the Liver From Chemotherapy for Leukemia or ...

    For patients assigned to arms A and B, the investigators will separately estimate the proportion of patients who experience conjugated hyperbilirubinemia > 3mg/dL during induction chemotherapy by arm along with corresponding 95% c...

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    A Study With Tovorafenib (DAY101) as a Treatment Option for Progressive, Relapsed, or Refractor...

    Will be analyzed descriptively.

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    A Study of Revumenib in Combination With Chemotherapy for Patients Diagnosed With Relapsed or R...

    Regimen A Cycle 1 will be used for determination of recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D)-lymphoid (L) directed chemotherapy block. A patient will be considered as being evaluable for DLT if: (1) the patient receives at least 66 doses o...

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    A Study to Compare Standard Chemotherapy to Therapy With CPX-351 and/or Gilteritinib for Patien...

    The Kaplan-Meier method will be used to estimate 3-year EFS, defined as the time from study entry until induction failure, relapse, secondary malignancy, or death.

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