David Dickens, MD

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics - Hematology/Oncology

Current Positions

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
University of Iowa Dance Marathon Endowed Chair in Pediatric Oncology, Clinical and Translational Research
Clinical Director of Pediatric Oncology Services

Education

Resident in Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
MD, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States
Fellow in Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplantation, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
BA in Neuroscience, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, United States
Fellow, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Resident, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Licenses & Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics
Iowa Medical Licensce, Iowa Board of Medicine, Iowa, United States

Selected Publications

Wadhwa A, Chen Y, Hageman L, Hoppmann A, Angiolillo A, Dickens D, Neglia JP, Ravindranath Y, Ritchey K, Termuhlen A, Wong FL, Landier W, Bhatia S. Poverty and Relapse Risk in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Children's Oncology Group Study AALL03N1 Report. Blood. 2023 Apr 17:blood.2023019631. doi: 10.1182/blood.2023019631. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37070673.
Issa GC, Aldoss I, DiPersio J, Cuglievan B, Stone R, Arellano M, Thirman MJ, Patel MR, Dickens DS, Shenoy S, Shukla N, Kantarjian H, Armstrong SA, Perner F, Perry JA, Rosen G, Bagley RG, Meyers ML, Ordentlich P, Gu Y, Kumar V, Smith S, McGeehan GM, Stein EM. The menin inhibitor revumenib in KMT2A-rearranged or NPM1-mutant leukaemia. Nature. 2023 Mar;615(7954):920-924. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05812-3. Epub 2023 Mar 15. PMID: 36922593; PMCID: PMC10060155.
Geris JM, Schleiss MR, Hooten AJ, Langer E, Hernandez-Alvarado N, Roesler MA, Sample J, Williams LA, Dickens DS, Mody RJ, Ravindranath Y, Gowans KL, Pridgeon MG, Spector LG, Nelson HH. Evaluation of the Association Between Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection and Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jan 3;6(1):e2250219. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.50219. PMID: 36622672; PMCID: PMC9856744.
Foxworthy, Blake, Elizabeth C. Davis, Ana C. Xavier, Julienne Brackett, David Dickens, Alissa R. Kahn, Isaac Martinez et al. "COVID-19 Infection in Children with Down Syndrome and Hematologic Malignancies." Blood 140, no. Supplement 1 (2022): 8030-8031.
Mittal N, Langevin AM, Kyono W, Dickens DS, Grimes A, Salsman JM, Pollock BH, Roth M. Barriers to Pediatric Oncologist Enrollment of Adolescents and Young Adults on a Cross-Network National Clinical Trials Network Supportive Care Cancer Clinical Trial. J Adolesc Young Adult Oncol. 2022 Feb;11(1):117-121. doi: 10.1089/jayao.2021.0041. Epub 2021 May 13. PMID: 33983848; PMCID: PMC8864435.
Kelly, M. J., Sung, L. & Dickens, D. S. (2018). Barriers to Medication Access in Pediatric Oncology in the United States. Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology. DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0000000000001297. PMID: 30124549.
Dickens, D. S. & Pollock, B. H. (2017). Medication prior authorization in pediatric hematology and oncology. Pediatric blood & cancer 64 (6). DOI: 10.1002/pbc.26339. PMID: 28436209.
Landier, W., Hageman, L., Chen, Y., Kornegay, N., Evans, W. E., Bostrom, B. C., Casillas, J., Dickens, D. S., Angiolillo, A. L., Lew, G., Maloney, K. W., Mascarenhas, L., Ritchey, A. K., Termuhlen, A. M., Carroll, W. L., Relling, M. V., Wong, F. L. & Bhatia, S. (2017). Mercaptopurine Ingestion Habits, Red Cell Thioguanine Nucleotide Levels, and Relapse Risk in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Study AALL03N1. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 35 (15) 1730-1736. DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2016.71.7579. PMID: 28339328. PMCID: PMC5455766.
Landier, W., Chen, Y., Hageman, L., Kim, H., Bostrom, B. C., Casillas, J. N., Dickens, D. S., Evans, W. E., Maloney, K. W., Mascarenhas, L., Ritchey, A. K., Termuhlen, A. M., Carroll, W. L., Relling, M. V., Wong, F. L. & Bhatia, S. (2017). Comparison of self-report and electronic monitoring of 6MP intake in childhood ALL: a Children's Oncology Group study. Blood 129 (14) 1919-1926. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2016-07-726893. PMID: 28153823. PMCID: PMC5383868.
Roth, M. E., O'Mara, A. M., Seibel, N. L., Dickens, D. S., Langevin, A. M., Pollock, B. H. & Freyer, D. R. (2016). Low Enrollment of Adolescents and Young Adults Onto Cancer Trials: Insights From the Community Clinical Oncology Program. Journal of oncology practice 12 (4) e388-95. DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2015.009084. PMID: 27026648. PMCID: PMC4960459.