Resistance to Targeted Therapies in Lymphomas

Public Health at NYMC. Briefly, Dr. Cairo's past education includes his undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, graduating in 1972 with a BA and election to Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Cairo received his medical school training at the University of California, San Francisco (USCF) graduating in 1976 and election to Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA). Dr. Cairo trained as a Pediatric Resident at UCLA Harbor General from 1976-1978 under the mentorship of Joseph St. Geme, MD and then a Chief Residency in Pediatrics from 1978-1979 at UCSF under the mentorship of Melvin Grumbach, MD. Dr. Cairo completed a Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship as an American Cancer Society Fellow at Indiana University from 1979-1981 under the mentorship of Robert Baehner, MD. Dr. Cairo joined the faculty of Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) in 1982 and established the BMT/Stem Cell Transplant program there in 1985 as Director of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Also, at CHOC Dr. Cairo wasthe Principal Investigator (PI) for Children's Cancer Group and PI of the Cord Blood Collection Center and Cord Blood Transplant Center under an NHLBI award. In 1997, Dr. Cairo was recruited to Georgetown University where he became a Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Pathology and Chief of the Division of Stem Cell Transplantation, Cellular and Gene Therapy and Director of the Adult and Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation program at the Lombardi Cancer Center and Medical Director of the NHLBI Cord Blood Collection Center and Cord Blood Bank. In 2000, Dr. Cairo was recruited to Columbia University and was a Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Pathology and Director of the Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, member of the executive committee of the Department of Pediatrics, Medical Director of the National Marrow Donor Unrelated Transplant program, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation and member of the executive steering committee of theMo