University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital Position(s)
Pediatric Hematologist Oncologist
 
Other Related Positions Currently Held
Professor and Interim Head, Department of Pediatrics, Section Chief, Hematology and Oncology, Albert D. and Eva J. Corniea Chair, University of Minnesota School of Medicine

Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Principal Investigator, University of Minnesota Cancer Center for Children's Oncology Group (COG) – American Cancer Society Grant

Specialty
Hematology/Oncology

Board Certifications
Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematology Oncology
Pediatric Oncology

Sees Patients At
University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospita (Hematology/Oncology)
Masonic Cancer Clinic (Minneapolis)
Fairview Maple Grove Medical Center

Clinical Interests
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Anemia
Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Antithrombin 3 Deficiency
Bleeding Disorders
Blood Cancer
Bone Cancer
Brain Tumors
Chemotherapy
Clotting Disorders
Colon Cancer
DVT
Ewings Sarcoma
Factor V Leiden
Hemophilia
Hodgkins Disease
Hurler Syndrome
Kidney Cancer
Langerhan's Cell Histiocytosis
Laryngeal Cancer
Leukemia
Liver Cancer
Long Term Effects of Cancer Therapy
Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Lung Cancer
Lymphoma
Melanoma
Oral Cancer
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Protein C and S Deficiency
Pulmonary Embolism
Retinoblastoma
Testicular Cancer
Thrombosis
Thyroid Cancer
Von Willebrand Disease
 
Education
Medical School
Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, Calif.

Site of Internship
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (Pediatrics)

Site of Residency
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (Pediatrics)

Site of Fellowship
University of Minnesota (Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Blood and Marrow Transplantation)

Awards and Honors
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Top Doctors 2010
Best Doctors in America®, 2009-2010
Mpls. St. Paul Magazine Top Doctors 2009
Mpls. St. Paul Magazine Top Doctors 2008
Best Doctors in America®, 2007-2008
Pi Chapter, Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, 1988
American Association for Cancer Research - Upjohn Travel Award, 1987
Clinical Fellow, American Cancer Society, 1984-85
Chief Pediatric Resident, Jefferson Davis County Hospital, Houston, TX, 1983
Vice-President, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Class of 1981

Research Interest(s)
Brain Tumors
Epidemiology
Late Sequelae of Childhood Cancer
Long-Term Effects of Cancer Therapy in Cancer Survivors
Occurrence of Second Malignancies Following Childhood Cancer
 
Selected Recent Publications
Bassal M, Mertens AC, Taylor L, Neglia JP, Greffe BS, Hammond S, Ronckers CM,  Friedman DL, Stovall M, Yasui YY, Robison LL, Meadows AT, Kadan-Lottick NS: The Risk of Selected Subsequent Carcinomas in Survivors of Childhood Cancer:  A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.  Journal of Clinical Oncology 24: 476-483, 2006.

Fraser CJ, Hirsch BA, Dayton V, Creer MH, Neglia JP, Wagner, JE, Baker KS.  First report of donor cell-derived acute leukemia as a complication of umbilical cord Blood transplantation.  Blood, 106(13):4377-4380, 2005.

Perkins JL, Liu Y, Mitby PA, Neglia JP, Hammond S, Stovall M, Meadows AT.

Hutchinson R, Dreyer ZE, Robison LL, Mertens AC. Nonmelanoma skin cancer in Survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer:  A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.  Journal of Clinical Oncology June 1,23(16):3733-41, 2005.

Patton T, Olshan AF, Neglia JP, Castleberry RP:  Parental exposure to medical radiation and neuroblastoma in offspring.  Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 18:178-185, 2004.

Tolar J, Tope WD, Neglia JP:  Leukotriene-Receptor Inhibition for the Treatment of Systemic Mastocytosis.  New England Journal of Medicine, 7:735-736, 2004.

Yasui Y, Liu Y, Neglia J, Friedman, D, Bhatia S, Meadows A, Diller LR, Mertens A,  Whitten J, Robison LL:  A methodological issue in the analysis of secondary primary cancer incidence in long-term survivors of childhood cancers.  American Journal Epidemiology, 158(11):1108-1113, 2003.

Packer RJ, Gurney JG, Punyko JA, Donaldson SS, Inskip PD, Stovall M, Yasui Y,  Mertens AC, Sklar CA, Nicholson HS, Zeltzer LK, Neglia JP, Robison LL:  Long-term  Neurologic and neurosensory sequelae in adult survivors of a childhood brain tumor: Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.  Journal of Clinical Oncology 21:3255-3261, 2003.

Tolar J, Neglia JP.  Transplacental and other routes of cancer transmission between individuals:  A review of the literature.   Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 25:430-434, 2003.

Nagarajan R, Neglia JP, Clohisy DR and Robison LL.  Limb Salvage and Amputation in Survivors of Pediatric Lower-Extremity Bone Tumors:  What are the Long-Term Implications?  Journal of Clinical Oncology 20:4493-4501, 2002.

Tolar J, Coad JE, and Neglia J:  Transplacental Transfer of Small Cell  Carcinoma of the Lung.   New England Journal of Medicine, 1501-1502, 2002.

Neglia JP, Friedman DL, Yasui Y, Mertens AC, Hammond S, Stoval M, Donaldson SS, Meadows AT, Robison, LL.  Second Malignant Neoplasms in Five-Year Survivors of Childhood Cancer:  A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 93(8) 618-629, 2001.

Nagarajan R, Neglia J, Ramsay N, and Baker KS:  Successful Treatment of Refractory   Langerhan Cell Histiocytosis with Unrelated Cord Blood Transplant.   Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 23(9) 629-632, 2001.

Mertens AC, Yasui Y, Neglia JP, Potter JD, Nesbit ME, Ruccione K, Smithson WA and Robison LL.  Late Mortality Experience in Five-Year Survivors of Childhood and Adolescent Cancer:  The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.   Journal of Clinical Oncology. 19:3163-3172, 2001.