Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Meet Our Team

An expertly skilled team of pediatric hematologists/oncologists, specially trained advanced practice pediatric hematology/oncology nurses, nurse clinicians, registered nurses, social workers and child life/play therapists work together to provide the most advanced medical care.

Peri Kamalakar, M.D.,
Medical Director of The Valerie Fund Center at all three sites in the Saint Barnabas Health Care System.

Medical School:
Medical degree from Guntur Medical College in India.

Special Training:

• Residency in pediatrics at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.
• Fellowship training in pediatric hematology/oncology from Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, N.Y.
• Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Board Certification:
Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Stacey Rifkin-Zenenberg, D.O.,
Pediatric Hematologist /Oncologist

Education

• Medical degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia.
• Residency in pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.
• Fellowship training in pediatric hematology/oncology at Schneider Children’s Hospital of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y.
• Board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics with subspecialty certification in pediatric hematology/oncology and by the American Board of Osteopathic Pediatrics.

Professional Affiliations
American Academy of Pediatrics, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Hematology and American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

Publications, abstracts and presentations
Published in the Journal of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Blood and Journal of the Osteopathic Association.
Abstracts included in annual meeting proceedings of the American Society of Microbiology.

Brenda C. Sison, M.D.
Pediatric Hematologist /Oncologist

Medical school:
University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, 1970

Special training:

• Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City
• Cornell University-New York Hospital, New York City

Special interests:

Solid tumors, with expertise in musculo-skeletal tumors; general oncology and hematology

E-mail: bsison@sbhcs.com

Other Physicians

• Shalu Narang, M.D., Pediatric Hematologist /Oncologist

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