About Us

Saint Barnabas Health Care System has
Three Outstanding Valerie Fund Children’s Centers
for Cancer and Blood Disorders

When searching for comprehensive medical care for your child or adolescent, you can count on the expertise of the team of specialists at The Valerie Fund Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, located at three sites in our System: 

• Saint Barnabas Medical Center
  
  
• Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
  
  
• The Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center

Our Valerie Fund Children's Centers for Cancer and Blood Disorders are led by Peri Kamalakar, M.D., Medical Director at all three sites in the Saint Barnabas Health Care System. Our three Centers provide the most advanced range of diagnostic and therapeutic treatment services for children from birth to age 21 with childhood cancers such as leukemia, lymphomas and neuroblastomas, and blood disorders such as sickle cell anemia and white cell abnormalities.