Alicia Gomez, M.D., F.A.P., has a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of San Diego. Dr. Gomez received her medical degree in 1983 from the University of San Diego Medical School. She started her career in pediatrics at the San Diego Medical Center and worked in several prominent paediatric-intensive care units in the City of San Diego. In 1989 she was appointed as Chief of Pediatric Pediatric Oncology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she performed research and clinical care on lung and colorectal cancers and had a major impact on how cancers are treated at this facility. She is a member of several organizations, including CCSH International. She is an instructor at the University of San Diego M.D. School of Graduate Medical Education and is a board member of the Pediatric Oncology Foundation for Cancer Research. Dr. Gomez received a Distinguished Doctor of Science in Pediatric Oncology (PDS), which she earned for her unique career in research and treatment of childhood cancers, at the M.D. School of Graduate Medical Education and in 2007 she received her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Gomez and colleagues from a number of organizations in the California Pediatric Oncology Network have worked with the California Pediatric Oncology Foundation (CAPOF), which was founded for this purpose in 1993 in partnership with the Children’s Hospital San Francisco, to study and provide treatment guidelines for cancer survivors that include information on chemopreventive medicine, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgical therapy. The group’s efforts have generated important publications from articles in the Bulletin of the Pediatric Oncology Association, The Pediatric Oncology Journal, The Annals of Oncology, and other publications. As the CAPOF representative for California, Dr. Gomez has presented important research at meetings of the Pediatric Oncology Association, the Pediatric Oncology Society in the USA, and in many other national and international meetings and forums. Her contributions have provided information for the CAPOF’s Guidelines for the Safe Management of Cancer Survivors, which are available on MEDLINE at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ENTER/aamk.cgi?retrieve=journals.
Kathleen M. Kram, M.D., F.A.P., is a pediatric surgeon specializing in pulmon