Leena Chehab, MD, MS

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Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Oncology)
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The HUB for Clinical Collaboration. 3rd Fl
3500 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-301-6239
Education:
BS (Biological Sciences, Public and Community Health)
University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.
MS (Biomedical Sciences)
Boston University School of Medicine, 2012.
MD
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College, 2016.
MS (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2023.
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Selected Publications

Chehab L, Elgarten C, Li Y, Wohlschlaeger A, Freedman J, Olson T, Fisher BT, Mostoufi-Moab S.: Immune Reconstitution and Readiness for Vaccination after Pediatric Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting December 2024.

Gullickson C, Kersun L, Reilly A, Seif A, Chehab L. : Isolated central nervous system relapse in two adolescents with primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma after treatment with R-DA-EPOCH. Pediatric Blood and Cancer 71(8), August 2024.

Zalot MA*, Chehab L*, Rossoff J, Hoogstra D, Karthikeyan S, Newmark M, VanDuine R, Readwin MB, Vella L, Fisher BT.: Infection incidence and trajectory of immune recovery in children, adolescents, and young adults after chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. IDWeek August 2024.

Van Remortel, BJ; Chehab, L; Bauer, AJ; Isaza, A; Li, Y; Baumgarten, HD; Franco, AT; Laetsch, TW, Kazahaya, K; Adzick, NS; Mostoufi-Moab, S.: Surgical outcomes in survivors of childhood cancer undergoing thyroidectomy: A single-institution experience. Pediatric Blood and Cancer 69(6): e29674, June 2022.

Chehab L; Doody DR; Esbenshade AJ, Guilcher GMT; Dvorak CC; Fisher BT; Mueller, BA; Chow EJ; ROssoff J; : A population based study of the long-term risk of infections associated with hospitalizations in childhooc cancer survivors. Journal of Clinical Oncology 102(4): 512-9, April 2022.

Rosen, E., Kryndushkin, D;, Aryal, B., Gonzalez, Y., Chehab,L., Dickey, J., Rao, V/A, Rao, V.A.: Acute total body ionizing gamma radiation induces long-term adverse effects and immediate changes in cardiac protein oxidative carbonylation in the rat. PLoS1 15(6): e0233967, June 2020.

Moke, D.J., Hamilton, A.S., Chehab, L., Deapen, D; Freyer D.R.: Obesity and Risk for Second Malignant Neoplasms in Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Case-Control Study Utilizing the California Cancer Registry. American Association for Cancer Research 28(10 ): 1612-1620, October 2019.

Gonzalez Y, Pokrzywinski KL, Rosen ET, Mog S, Aryal B, Chehab LM, Vijay V, Moland CL, Desai VG, Dickey JS, Rao VA: Reproductive hormone levels and differential mitochondria-related oxidative gene expression as potential mechanisms for gender differences in cardiosensitivity to Doxorubicin in tumor-bearing spontaneously hypertensive rats. Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology 76(3): 447-59, September 2015.

Gonzalez Y, Aryal B, Chehab L, Rao VA. : Atg7- and Keap1-dependent autophagy protects breast cancer cell lines against mitoquinone-induced oxidative stress. Oncotarget 5(6): 1526-37, March 2014.

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