Major Sponsor Link Your Company's help can have a major impact on helping uncork the cure to Pediatric Cancer. Krewe of Zingaro The Uncork The Cure wine tasting is a Zignature Event sponored and produced by the Krewe of Zingaro, Inc.		Introducing Dr. Tebbi and Dr. Lawman Cameron K. Tebbi, M.D., Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Watch the New WFTS Video About Dr. Tebbi Dr. Cameron Tebbi is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Tehran. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and two fellowships Š one in Pediatric Oncology at M.D. Anderson Hospital, and the other in Pediatric Hernatology/ Oncology at St. Louis Children's Hospital. In addition, he has been a laboratory research fellow at the Ontario Cancer Institute. Prior to his present position, he was the director of the Adolescent Unit at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Dr. Tebbi is a full member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Cancer Institute. He has edited two books and authored over 300 articles and abstracts. Dr. Tebbi is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, International Union Against Cancer, Pediatric Oncology Group, American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Florida Association of Pediatric Tumor Programs, Inc., Histocyte Society, and the International Society of Pediatric Oncology. He serves on the boards of the Florida Chapter of the American Cancer Society, Children's Cancer Center and the Children's Cancer Research Group. Dr. Tebbi is married, has three children, and enjoys travel, history and nature photography. Michael Lawman, Director of Research Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Michael J.P. Lawman, Ph.D., received his Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. He came to the United States as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tennessee. Following this fellowship he served as an Assistant Professor at Auburn University and the University of Florida. In 1984, he became the Head of Immunology and Cytokine Therapeutics at VIDO a research institute and biotechnology company in Saskatchewan, Canada. Dr. Lawman returned to the University of Florida as an Associate Professor in the College of Medicine and Associate Director of Research in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, College of Medicine in the years prior to becoming the Director of the Cell Biology Division of the Walt Disney Memorial Cancer Institute (WDMCI), where he continued his research interests on cell regulation, biology of stem cells and the characterization of growth factors involved in stem cell replication. Also, while at the WDMCI, he helped initiate efforts that resulted in the formation of the Central Florida Research Association. Dr. Lawman has published a number of book chapters, and has over 70 publications in the areas of vaccines, immunology, virology, infectious diseases, and cytokine characterization and therapy. He also holds twenty US and worldwide patents. He is currently the Director of Pediatric Research at St. JosephÕs ChildrenÕs Hospital at Tampa and an adjunct Professor at the University of South Florida, College of Medicine. Dr. Lawman is a co-founder of Morphogenesis, Inc. a cell therapy company currently based in the Tampa area.
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