Karun V. Sharma, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of Interventional Radiology at Children's National Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Radiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. His clinical practice and translational research focuses on minimally invasive image-guided therapies for musculoskeletal and oncology conditions. Dr. Sharma leads the Image-Guided Non-Invasive Therapeutic Energy (IGNITE) program, a collaboration of the Sheikh Zayed Institute and the departments of Radiology, Oncology, Surgery, and Anesthesiology at Children’s National Hospital. The IGNITE program aims to improve the quality of life and outcomes for pediatric patients through the development and clinical translation of novel minimally invasive and noninvasive surgery technologies and combination therapy approaches, with the ultimate goal of making pediatric surgery more precise, less invasive and pain-free. In the recent years, Dr. Sharma and the IGNITE team have developed Magnetic Resonance Imaging –guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MR-HIFU) applications for pediatric patients and lead clinical trials for osteoid osteoma and other tumors.
AeRang Kim, M.D., Ph.D., is a member of the solid tumor faculty at Children’s National Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics. Dr. Kim's specializes in sarcomas and developmental therapeutics. Her research focuses on development of novel therapeutics for pediatric cancer including pre-clinical testing of novel agents, pharmacokinetic analysis, developing innovative methods for toxicity monitoring and clinical trial design. She serves as the principal investigator of multiple early phase trials in pediatric oncology, sarcomas and NF1 associated tumors.
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