Director, Clinical Operations and Program Development, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Division Chief, Pediatric Oncology, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Clinical Professor Of Medicine
School of Medicine

Top Doctor, U.S. News and World Report (2007-2014)
Physician of Excellence, Orange County Medical Association (2008-2014)
UC Irvine Foundation Stewardship Star Award (2009)
Outstanding Community Health Care Provider, Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS), UC Irvine (2013)
Member, Oncology, Super Doctors, MSP Communications, Minneapolis, MN (2014)

Zhang Z, Eckert MA, Ali MM, Liu L, Kang DK, Chang E, Pone EJ, Sender LS, Fruman DA, Zhao W. DNA-scaffolded multivalent ligands to modulate cell function. Chembiochem. 2014 Jun 16;15(9):1268-73.

Grigsby TJ, Kent EE, Montoya MJ, Sender LS, Morris RA, Ziogas A, Anton-Culver H. Attitudes toward cancer clinical trial participation in young adults with a history of cancer and a healthy college student sample: A preliminary investigation. J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol. 2014 Mar 1;3(1):20-27.

Zhang Z, Ali MM, Eckert MA, Kang DK, Chen YY, Sender LS, Fruman DA, Zhao W. A polyvalent aptamer system for targeted drug delivery. Biomaterials. 2013 Dec;34(37):9728-35.

Kent EE, Sender LS, Morris RA, Grigsby TJ, Montoya MJ, Ziogas A, Anton-Culver H. Multilevel socioeconomic effects on quality of life in adolescent and young adult survivors of leukemia and lymphoma. Qual Life Res. 2013 Aug;22(6):1339-51.

Fortier MA, Batista ML, Wahi A, Kain A, Strom S, Sender LS. Illness uncertainty and quality of life in children with cancer. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2013 Jul;35(5):366-70.

Buchbinder D, Hsieh L, Puthenveetil G, Soni A, Stites J, Huynh V, Kirov I, Neudorf S, Rubin E, Sender L, Torno L, Margolis D, Childs R, Moore T, Nugent D. Successful autologous cord blood transplantation in a child with acquired severe aplastic anemia. Pediatr Transplant. 2013 May;17(3):E104-7.

Janes MR, Vu C, Mallya S, Sheih MP, Limon JJ, Li L-S, Jessen KA, Martin MB, Ren P, Lilly MB, Sender LS, Liu Y, Rommel C, Fruman DA. Efficacy of the investigational mTOR kinase inhibitor MLN0128/INK128 in models of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia. 2013 Mar;27(3):586-94.

American Medical Association

American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

American Society of Hematology

American Society of Clinical Oncology

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Connective Tissue Oncology Society

American Association for Cancer Research

Society for Participatory Medicine

Medical Director, Blood and Marrow Clinical Laboratory
CHOC 1997—pres

Medical Director, Cancer Research Laboratory
CHOC 1997—pres

Medical Director, Cord Blood Bank
CHOC 1999—pres

Medical Director, Hyundai Cancer Institute
CHOC 2001—pres

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Last updated
04/30/2015