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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.

  • Education

    Keck School of Medicine of USC, MD, 2001

  • Residencies

    Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Pediatrics, 2014

  • Fellowships

    UCSF, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, 2009

  • Academic Title

    Associate Professor

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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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A Study to Investigate Blinatumomab in Combination With Chemotherapy in Patients With Newly Dia...

Will be assessed in SR-High patients and SR-Avg B-ALL patients who are negative for MRD by flow cytometry but have detectable or indeterminate MRD as measured by high throughput sequencing (HTS) at end of induction (EOI), and pati...

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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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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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Imatinib Mesylate and Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Philad...

Three-year DFS and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of SR Ph+ ALL patients treated continuous imatinib mesylate with high risk Children's Oncology Group (COG)-ALL chemotherapy backbone or more intensive European (Es)PhALL chemotherap...

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Targeted Therapy Directed by Genetic Testing in Treating Pediatric Patients With Relapsed or Re...

Response rates will be calculated as the percent of evaluable patients who are responders, and confidence intervals will be constructed using the Wilson score interval method.

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Evaluation of Immunologic Response Following COVID-19 Vaccination in Children, Adolescents, and...

Will report the proportion of patients with a serologic response to a protocol-approved COVID-19 vaccine, captured using a test for SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies via immunoassay, and will report a corresponding 95% confidence int...

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A Study to Compare Early Use of Vinorelbine and Maintenance Therapy for Patients With High Risk...

Will be estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and will be compared between the two regimens using a log-rank test.

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