Consultant, St Jude Global Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis TN
Consultant, WHO NCD, Global Childhood Cancer Initiative
Recognition & Awards
SIOP Leadership Award in Paediatric Global Oncology, International Society of Pediatric Oncology
(2020)
SIOP Award for Best Lymphoma, International Society of Pediatric Oncology
(2017)
SIOP Global (International Society of Pediatric Oncology) Award for Best Pediatric Oncology low-income countries presentation, International Society of Pediatric Oncology
(2014)
Social Mover, Social Award, Guatemala Central government, Guatemala
(2004)
Fulbright Scholar, Cancer in LMIC (Guatemala), Fulbright
(1999)
Childhood Cancer in LMIC (Guatemala)
Pacific Rim Research Project Scholarship, University of California, Berkely
(1994)
Stanford Immunology Training Grant, NIH
(1990)
AI07290, NIH
National Research Service Award (NRSA), NIH
(1984)
Retinoblastoma: clinical approaches to improvement of outcomes around the world.
I particularly enjoy mentoring junior faculty in LMIC to implement and analyze new and innovative approaches to childhood cancer in limited-resource settings.
Scientific writing with colleagues from LMIC
Teaching
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
(2017)
School of Medicine,
Pediatrics
Global Pediatric Oncology, Retinoblastoma, Lymphoma, Wilms
Member, Center for Global Health
(2017)
School of Medicine,
Pediatrics
non-communicable disorders - Cancer
Publications
Luna-Fineman S, Castellanos M, Metzger ML, Baez LF, Peña Hernandez A, Bonilla M, Fuentes-Alabi S, Nieves R, Blanco J, Rossi E, Devidas M, Chen Y, Arreola M, de Alarcon PA. Treatment of high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma with a modified Stanford V regimen in the AHOPCA: Substituting chemotherapy agents and hampered outcomes. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Feb;71(2):e30792. PubMed PMID: 38053237
Graff Z, Giron V, Miller K, Pixtun D, Alejos A, Luna-Fineman S. Toxicity and feasibility of vincristine, etoposide, and carboplatin alternating with vincristine, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide in children with advanced retinoblastoma in Guatemala. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2023 Jul;70(7):e30392. PubMed PMID: 37132129
Fabian ID, Khetan V, Stacey AW, Allen Foster, Ademola-Popoola DS, Berry JL, Cassoux N, Chantada GL, Hessissen L, Kaliki S, Kivelä TT, Luna-Fineman S, Munier FL, Reddy MA, Rojanaporn D, Blum S, Sherief ST, Staffieri SE, Theophile T, Waddell K, Ji X, Astbury NJ, Bascaran C, Burton M, Zondervan M, Bowman R. Sex, gender, and retinoblastoma: analysis of 4351 patients from 153 countries. Eye (Lond). 2022 Aug;36(8):1571-1577. PubMed PMID: 34272514
Villanueva G, Sampor C, Palma J, Villarroel M, Valencia D, Lombardi MG, Garcia WG, Caceres EL, Sobrero V, Garcia L, Cabrera V, Maza I, Velasquez T, Ugaz C, Vasquez JM, Coronado RD, Gonzalez N, Aguiar S, Dabezies A, Moreno F, Sardinas S, Gamboa Y, Maradiegue E, Fu L, Gassant P, Moreno K, Gonzales O, Schelotto M, Luna-Fineman S, Antoneli CG, Fuentes-Alabi S, Luciani S, Cappellano A, Chantada G, Vasquez L. Impact of COVID-19 in pediatric oncology care in Latin America during the first year of the pandemic. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Oct;69(10):e29748. PubMed PMID: 35593012
Das A, Sudhaman S, Morgenstern D, Coblentz A, Chung J, Stone SC, Alsafwani N, Liu ZA, Karsaneh OAA, Soleimani S, Ladany H, Chen D, Zatzman M, Cabric V, Nobre L, Bianchi V, Edwards M, Sambira Nahum LC, Ercan AB, Nabbi A, Constantini S, Dvir R, Yalon-Oren M, Campino GA, Caspi S, Larouche V, Reddy A, Osborn M, Mason G, Lindhorst S, Bronsema A, Magimairajan V, Opocher E, De Mola RL, Sabel M, Frojd C, Sumerauer D, Samuel D, Cole K, Chiaravalli S, Massimino M, Tomboc P, Ziegler DS, George B, Van Damme A, Hijiya N, Gass D, McGee RB, Mordechai O, Bowers DC, Laetsch TW, Lossos A, Blumenthal DT, Sarosiek T, Yen LY, Knipstein J, Bendel A, Hoffman LM, Luna-Fineman S, Zimmermann S, Scheers I, Nichols KE, Zapotocky M, Hansford JR, Maris JM, Dirks P, Taylor MD, Kulkarni AV, Shroff M, Tsang DS, Villani A, Xu W, Aronson M, Durno C, Shlien A, Malkin D, Getz G, Maruvka YE, Ohashi PS, Hawkins C, Pugh TJ, Bouffet E, Tabori U. Genomic predictors of response to PD-1 inhibition in children with germline DNA replication repair deficiency. Nat Med. 2022 Jan;28(1):125-135. PubMed PMID: 34992263
Fabian ID, Stacey AW, Bowman R, Khetan V, Blum S, Keren-Froim N, Staffieri S, Foster A. Retinoblastoma management during the COVID-19 pandemic: A report by the Global Retinoblastoma Study Group including 194 centers from 94 countries. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 Jan;68(1):e28584. PubMed PMID: 32762025
Vasquez L, Sampor C, Villanueva G, Maradiegue E, Garcia-Lombardi M, Gomez-García W, Moreno F, Diaz R, Cappellano AM, Portilla CA, Salas B, Nava E, Brizuela S, Jimenez S, Espinoza X, Gassant PY, Quintero K, Fuentes-Alabi S, Velasquez T, Fu L, Gamboa Y, Quintana J, Castiglioni M, Nuñez C, Moreno A, Luna-Fineman S, Luciani S, Chantada G. Early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on paediatric cancer care in Latin America. Lancet Oncol. 2020 Jun;21(6):753-755. PubMed PMID: 32437662
Sullivan M, Bouffet E, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Luna-Fineman S, Khan MS, Kearns P, Hawkins DS, Challinor J, Morrissey L, Fuchs J, Marcus K, Balduzzi A, Basset-Salom L, Caniza M, Baker JN, Kebudi R, Hessissen L, Sullivan R, Pritchard-Jones K. The COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid global response for children with cancer from SIOP, COG, SIOP-E, SIOP-PODC, IPSO, PROS, CCI, and St Jude Global. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2020 Jul;67(7):e28409. PubMed PMID: 32400924
Fabian ID, Abdallah E, Abdullahi SU, Abdulqader RA, Adamou Boubacar S, Ademola-Popoola DS, Adio A, Afshar AR, Aggarwal P, Aghaji AE, Ahmad A, Akib MNR, Al Harby L, Al Ani MH, Alakbarova A, Portabella SA, Al-Badri SAF, Alcasabas APA, Al-Dahmash SA, Alejos A, Alemany-Rubio E, Alfa Bio AI, Alfonso Carreras Y, Al-Haddad C, Al-Hussaini HHY, Ali AM, Alia DB, Al-Jadiry MF, Al-Jumaily U, Alkatan HM, All-Eriksson C, Al-Mafrachi AARM, Almeida AA, Alsawidi KM, Al-Shaheen AASM, Al-Shammary EH, Amiruddin PO, Antonino R, Astbury NJ, Atalay HT, Atchaneeyasakul LO, Atsiaya R, Attaseth T, Aung TH, Ayala S, Baizakova B, Balaguer J, Balayeva R, Balwierz W, Barranco H, Bascaran C, Beck Popovic M, Benavides R, Benmiloud S, Bennani Guebessi N, Berete RC, Berry JL, Bhaduri A, Bhat S, Biddulph SJ, Biewald EM, Bobrova N, Boehme M, Boldt HC, Bonanomi MTBC, Bornfeld N, Bouda GC, Bouguila H, Boumedane A, Brennan RC, Brichard BG, Buaboonnam J, Calderón-Sotelo P, Calle Jara DA, Camuglia JE, Cano MR, Capra M, Cassoux N, Castela G, Castillo L, Català-Mora J, Chantada GL, Chaudhry S, Chaugule SS, Chauhan A, Chawla B, Chernodrinska VS, Chiwanga FS, Chuluunbat T, Cieslik K, Cockcroft RL, Comsa C, Correa ZM, Correa Llano MG, Corson TW, Cowan-Lyn KE, Csóka M, Cui X, Da Gama IV, Dangboon W, Das A, Das S, Davanzo JM, Davidson A, De Potter P, Delgado KQ, Demirci H, Desjardins L, Diaz Coronado RY, Dimaras H, Dodgshun AJ, Donaldson C, Donato Macedo CR, Dragomir MD, Du Y, Du Bruyn M, Edison KS, Eka Sutyawan IW, El Kettani A, Elbahi AM, Elder JE, Elgalaly D, Elhaddad AM, Elhassan MMA, Elzembely MM, Essuman VA, Evina TGA, Fadoo Z, Fandiño AC, Faranoush M, Fasina O, Fernández DDPG, Fernández-Teijeiro A, Foster A, Frenkel S, Fu LD, Fuentes-Alabi SL, Gallie BL, Gandiwa M, Garcia JL, García Aldana D, Gassant PY, Geel JA, Ghassemi F, Girón AV, Gizachew Z, Goenz MA, Gold AS, Goldberg-Lavid M, Gole GA, Gomel N, Gonzalez E, Gonzalez Perez G, González-Rodríguez L, Garcia Pacheco HN, Graells J, Green L, Gregersen P... Global Retinoblastoma Presentation and Analysis by National Income Level. JAMA Oncol. 2020 May 1;6(5):685-695. PubMed PMID: 32105305
Luna-Fineman S, Chantada G, Alejos A, Amador G, Barnoya M, Castellanos ME, Fu L, Fuentes-Alabi S, Girón V, Goenz MA, Maldonado C, Méndez G, Morales RA, Ortiz R, Sanchez G, Wilson M, Rodríguez-Galindo C. Delayed Enucleation With Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Advanced Intraocular Unilateral Retinoblastoma: AHOPCA II, a Prospective, Multi-Institutional Protocol in Central America. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Nov 1;37(31):2875-2882. PubMed PMID: 31536438
de Smith AJ, Walsh KM, Morimoto LM, Francis SS, Hansen HM, Jeon S, Gonseth S, Chen M, Sun H, Luna-Fineman S, Antillón F, Girón V, Kang AY, Smirnov I, Shao X, Whitehead TP, Barcellos LF, Jolly KW, Healy J, Laverdière C, Sinnett D, Taub JW, Birch JM, Thompson PD, Pombo-de-Oliveira MS, Spector LG, DeWan AT, Mueller BA, Chiang C, Metayer C, Ma X, Wiemels JL. Heritable variation at the chromosome 21 gene ERG is associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk in children with and without Down syndrome. Leukemia. 2019 Nov;33(11):2746-2751. PubMed PMID: 31296947
Muehe AM, Theruvath AJ, Lai L, Aghighi M, Quon A, Holdsworth SJ, Wang J, Luna-Fineman S, Marina N, Advani R, Rosenberg J, Daldrup-Link HE. How to Provide Gadolinium-Free PET/MR Cancer Staging of Children and Young Adults in Less than 1 h: the Stanford Approach. Mol Imaging Biol. 2018 Apr;20(2):324-335. PubMed PMID: 28721605
Theruvath AJ, Sukerkar PA, Bao S, Rosenberg J, Luna-Fineman S, Kharbanda S, Daldrup-Link HE. Bone marrow oedema predicts bone collapse in paediatric and adolescent leukaemia patients with corticosteroid-induced osteonecrosis. Eur Radiol. 2018 Jan;28(1):410-417. PubMed PMID: 28726121
Aghighi M, Theruvath AJ, Pareek A, Pisani LL, Alford R, Muehe AM, Sethi TK, Holdsworth SJ, Hazard FK, Gratzinger D, Luna-Fineman S, Advani R, Spunt SL, Daldrup-Link HE. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Tumor-Associated Macrophages: Clinical Translation. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Sep 1;24(17):4110-4118. PubMed PMID: 29764855
Wagner CM, Antillón F, Uwinkindi F, Thuan TV, Luna-Fineman S, Anh PT, Huong TT, Valverde P, Eagan A, Binh PV, Quang TN, Johnson S, Binagwaho A, Torode J. Establishing Cancer Treatment Programs in Resource-Limited Settings: Lessons Learned From Guatemala, Rwanda, and Vietnam. J Glob Oncol. 2018 Jul;(4):1-14. PubMed PMID: 30085895
Alvarez E, Seppa M, Rivas S, Fuentes L, Valverde P, Antillón-Klussmann F, Castellanos M, Sweet-Cordero EA, Messacar K, Kurap J, Bustamante M, Howard SC, Efron B, Luna-Fineman S. Improvement in treatment abandonment in pediatric patients with cancer in Guatemala. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Oct;64(10). PubMed PMID: 28423236
Pribnow AK, Ortiz R, Báez LF, Mendieta L, Luna-Fineman S. Effects of malnutrition on treatment-related morbidity and survival of children with cancer in Nicaragua. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Nov;64(11). PubMed PMID: 28449403
Theruvath AJ, Ilivitzki A, Muehe A, Theruvath J, Gulaka P, Kim C, Luna-Fineman S, Sakamoto KM, Yeom KW, Yang P, Moseley M, Chan F, Daldrup-Link HE. A PET/MR Imaging Approach for the Integrated Assessment of Chemotherapy-induced Brain, Heart, and Bone Injuries in Pediatric Cancer Survivors: A Pilot Study. Radiology. 2017 Dec;285(3):971-979. PubMed PMID: 28777701
Howard SC, Davidson A, Luna-Fineman S, Israels T, Chantada G, Lam CG, Hunger SP, Bailey S, Ribeiro RC, Arora RS, Pedrosa F, Harif M, Metzger ML. A framework to develop adapted treatment regimens to manage pediatric cancer in low- and middle-income countries: The Pediatric Oncology in Developing Countries (PODC) Committee of the International Pediatric Oncology Society (SIOP). Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Dec;64 Suppl 5. PubMed PMID: 29297619
Clinical Interests
Clinical Interests: retinoblastoma, Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Global Oncology. Extraordinary, innovative and cutting edge care - where the family is the FOCUS.
Care Philosophy
What drove me into Pediatrics, was the unique opportunity of treating children and helping their families bridge into a happy and better future, despite any health problems. I strive to provide the best evidence-based family-centered care for my patients. This care is multi-disciplinary and comprehensive with respect, all inclusiveness and openness in every step of diagnosis, treatment and followup of children with cancer.
Personal Interests
I love to Read and Travel
Volunteer Activities
I volunteer for International Global Oncology
General Information
Medical Schools:
MD, University of San Carlos School of Medicine
(1984)
Internships:
New York University School of Medicine Program
(0001)
Residency Programs:
New York University School of Medicine Program, Pediatrics (1985)
Fellowships:
Stanford University Program, Pediatric Hematology / Oncology
(1991)