Dr. Pillay Smiley completed her medical training at Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and Pediatrics Residency at Advocate Children's Lutheran General Hospital in the Chicago area. She went on to the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplant Fellowship at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH before returning to Chicago for a Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Fellowship and the start of her career at Northwestern University/Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital.
Pediatric CNS disease; CNS specific survivorship; CNS specific cancer predisposition including NF-1 and NF-2
Brain Tumor, Cancer and Blood Diseases
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Current practice of cancer predisposition testing in pediatric patients with CNS tumors in the United States. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2024; 71:e30725.
Caregivers matter: Neurological vulnerability for pediatric brain tumor survivors. 2023; 10:418-428.
Shedding New Light: Novel Therapies for Common Disorders in Children with Neurofibromatosis Type I. Pediatric Clinics of North America. 2023; 70:937-950.
TRLS-11. A PHASE 1 STUDY OF SAVOLITINIB IN RECURRENT, PROGRESSIVE, OR REFRACTORY MEDULLOBLASTOMA, HIGH-GRADE GLIOMA, DIFFUSE INTRINSIC PONTINE GLIOMA, AND CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) TUMORS HARBORING MET ABERRATIONS: A PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR CONSORTIUM TRIAL. Neuro-Oncology. 2023; 25:i81.
Evaluating Focal Areas of Signal Intensity (FASI) in Children with Neurofibromatosis Type-1 (NF1) Treated with Selumetinib on Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC)-029B. Cancers. 2023; 15:2109.
Cardiac dysfunction in medulloblastoma survivors treated with photon irradiation. 2022; 9:338-343.
Phase I study of ribociclib and everolimus in children with newly diagnosed DIPG and high-grade glioma: A CONNECT pediatric neuro-oncology consortium report. Neuro-Oncology Advances. 2022; 4:vdac055.
Trametinib-associated Hyponatremia in a Child With Low-grade Glioma is Not Seen Following Treatment With Alternative MEK Inhibitor. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. 2021; 43:e550-e553.
Parental attitudes regarding the need for genetic services in a pediatric brain tumor survivorship program. Journal of Genetic Counseling. 2021; 30:533-543.
Overcoming barriers to establishing autopsy procurement programs in pediatric patients with central nervous system tumors: a call to develop regional centers. Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2021; 152:107-114.
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