F. Marc Stewart, M.D.

- Hematology
- Leukemia
- Lymphoma
- Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
- Leukemia
- Chief Medical Officer for City of Hope Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Clinical Network Sites
"Becoming a part of an organization that conducts outstanding research and advances care for cancer patients is a real privilege."
Location
Duarte Cancer Center
Duarte, CA 91010
Education & Experience
1986, Oncology
1982, Hematology
1980, American Board of Internal Medicine
1977, M.D., Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
1974, A.B., Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
1981-1983, Hematology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
1980-1981, Oncology, Indiana University Hospitals, Indianapolis, Indiana
1978-1980, Medicine, Indiana University Hospitals, Indianapolis, Indiana
1977-1978, Medicine, Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, Connecticut (Yale University)
2024-present, Chief Medical Officer for City of Hope Los Angeles and the Los Angeles clinical network sites
2020-present, Professor, Emeritus, University of Washington, Department of Medicine
2020-2024, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope, Duarte, California
2017-2020, Senior Vice President, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
2000-2020, Medical Director, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
2000-2020, Professor of Medicine, University of Washington
2013-2016, Acting Head, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
2000, Vice Chair for Affiliate Relations, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
1998-2000, Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Awards & Memberships
Awards
2018, Outstanding Medical Director Award, Seattle Business Magazine
2008, University of Washington Service Excellence Award, Summer
2007, Meritous Service Award, National Patient Advocate Foundation
Memberships
1992-2000, Principle Investigator, University of Massachusetts, CALGB (Cancer and Acute Leukemia Group B)
1994-1996, Secretary-Treasurer, American Association of Hematology/Oncology Program Directors
1999-2000, Member, Executive Committee, CALGB (Cancer and Acute Leukemia Group B)
2000-2003, Chair, Hematology Section, Cancer Education Committee, American Society of Clinical Oncology
2002-2005, Member, Cancer Education Committee, American Society of Clinical Oncology
2002, Member, Board of Directors, National Comprehensive Cancer Network
2002, Member, Executive Committee, National Comprehensive Cancer Network
2002, Co-Chair, Best Practices Committee, National Comprehensive Cancer Network
2002, Member, Guidelines Steering Committee, National Comprehensive Cancer Network
2003-2004, Member, Scholar Award Study Section, American Society of Hematology
2004-2007, Member, Committee on Education Affairs, American Society of Hematology
2005-2019, Member, Board of Directors, National Patient Advocate Foundation
2014-2017, President, National Patient Advocate Foundation
1984-1985, Secretary-Treasurer, Virginia Society of Hematology and Oncology
1984-1985, President Elect, Virginia Society of Hematology and Oncology
1985-1986, President, Virginia Society of Hematology and Oncology
2001-2009, Member, Puget Sound Oncology Consortium
2001-Present, Member, Southwest Oncology Group
2004-2006, Member, Board of Trustees, Washington State Medical Society
Publications
- Ueda, M, Martins R, Hendrie P, McDonnell T, Crews J, Wong T, McCreery B, Jagels B, Crane A, Byrd D, Pergam S, Davidson N, Liu C, Stewart FM. Managing Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Agility and Collaboration Toward a Common Goal. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2020;Mar 20:1-4. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2020.7560. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32197238
- Poston J, Sugalski J, Gernsheimer T, Stewart FM, Pagano M. Mitigation Strategies for Anti-D Alloimmunization by Platelet Transfusion in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients: a Survey of NCCN centres. Vox Sang. 2020;May;115(4): 334-338. doi: 10.1111/vox.12899. Epub 2020 Feb 20. PMID: 32080868
- Oshima MU, Sandmaier BM, Petersdorf E, Flowers ME, Hill GR, Lee SJ, Appelbaum FR, Carpenter PA, Baker KS, Connelly-Smith L, McCool A, Elgar S, Pergam SA, Liu C, Stewart FM, Mielcarek M. Blood and marrow transplantation during the emerging COVID-19 pandemic: the Seattle approach. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2021;56(2):305-313. PMID: 32980860 PMCID: PMC7519858
- Marquis SR, Logue JK, Chu HY, Loeffelholz T, Quinn ZZ, Liu C, Stewart FM, Carpenter PA, Pergam SA, Krantz EM. Seroprevalence of Measles and Mumps Antibodies Among Individuals With Cancer. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;Jul 1;4(7):e2118508. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18508. PMID: 34319355 PMCID: PMC8319758
- Aldoss I, Yang D, Gu Z, Tomasian V, Mokhtari S, Jackson R, Telatar M, Yew H, Al Malki M, Salhotra A, Khaled S, Ali H, Aribi A, Sandhu K, Mei M, Arslan S, Koller P, Artz A, Aoun P, Gu D, Snyder D, Stewart FM, Curtin P, Stein A, Pillai R, Marcucci G, Forman SJ, Pullarkat V, Nakamura R, Afkhami M. Outcomes of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Adults with Ph-like ALL. Blood. (2021) 138 (Supplement 1): 3955.PMID:35816633
- Aldoss I, Otoukesh S, Zhang J, Mokhtari S, Ngo D, Mojtahedzadeh M, Al Malki M, Salhotra A, Ali H, Aribi A, Sandhu KS, Arslan S, Koller P, Ball B, Stewart FM, Curtin P, Artz A, Nakamura R, Marcucci G, Forman SJ, Stein AS, Pullarkat V. Extramedullary disease relapse and progression after blinatumomab therapy for treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Cancer 2022 Feb 1;128(3):529-535. PMID:34633671
- Aldoss I, Yang D, Tomasian V, Mokhtari S, Jackson R, Gu Z, Telatar M, Yew H, Al Malki MM, Salhotra A, Khaled S, Ali H, Aribi A, Sandhu KS, Mei M, Arslan S, Koller P, Artz A, Aoun P, Gu D, Snyder D, Stewart FM, Curtin P, Stein AS, Pillai R, Marcucci G, Forman SJ, Pullarkat V, Nakamura R, Afkhami M. Outcomes of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in adults with fusions associated with Ph-like ALL. Blood Adv. 2022 Sep 13;6(17):4936-4948 PMID: 35816633
- Kulkarni P, Mohanty A, Bhattacharya S, Singhal S, Guo L, Ramisetty S, Mirzapoiazova T, Mambetsariev B, Mittan S, Malhotra J, Gupta N, Kim P, Babikian R, Rajurkar S, Subbiah S, Tan T, Nguyen D, Merla A, Kollimuttathuillam S, Phillips T, Baik P, Tan B, Vashi P, Shrestha S, Leach B, Garg R, Rich P, Stewart FM, Pisick E, Salgia R. Addressing Drug Resistance in Cancer: A Team Medicine Approach. J. Clin. Med. 2022 Sept. 27;11(19), 5701 PMID: 36233569
- Agrawal V, Pourhassan H, Tsai NC, Ngo D, Koller P, Malki MMA, Salhotra A, Ali H, Aribi A, Sandhu KS, Arslan S, Ball B, Otoukesh S, Amanam I, Artz A, Singh D, Becker PS, Stewart FM, Smith EP, Curtin P, Stein AS, Marcucci G, Forman SJ, Nakamura R, Pullarkat V, Aldoss I. Post-Transplantation Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome in Adult Patients with B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treated with Pretransplantation Inotuzumab. Transplant Cell Ther. 2023 May;29(5):314-320. Doi: 10.1016/j.jtct.2023.01.017. Epub 2023 Jan 19 PMID: 36682470
- Aldoss I, Afkhami M, Yang D, Gu Z, Mokhtari S, Shahani S, Pourhassan H, Agrawal V, Koller P, Arslan S, Tomasian V, Al Malki MM, Artz A, Salhotra A, Ali H, Aribi A, Sandhu KS, Ball B, Otoukesh S, Amanam I, Becker PS, Stewart FM, Curtin P, Smith E, Telatar M, Stein AS, Marcucci G, Forman SJ, Nakamura R, Pullarkat V. High response rates and transition to transplant after novel targeted and cellular therapies in adults with relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia with Philadelphia-like fusions. Am J Hematol. 2023 Jun;98(6)L848-856. Doi: 10.1002/ajh.26908. Epub 2023 Mar 19. PMID: 36880203
- Al Malki MM, Yao J, Otoukesh S, Kim H, Yang D, Mokhtari S, Samara Y, Blackmon A, Arslan S, Agrawal V, Pourhassan H, Amanam I, Ball B, Koller P, Salhotra A, Becker PS, Curtin P, Artz A, Aldoss I, Ali H, Stewart FM, Smith E, Stein A, Marcucci G, Forman SJ. Tocilizumab for Cytokine Release Syndrome Management after Haploidentical Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation with Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide-Based Graft-Versus-Host Disease Prophylaxis. Transplant Cell Ther 2023 March online ahead of print.
- Winckworth-Prejsnar K, Nardi EA, McCanney J, Stewart FM, Langbaum T, Gould BJ, Fitzgerald CL, Carlson RW. Ensuring Patient Safety and Access in Cancer Care. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2017 Dec;15(12):1460-1464. PMID: 29223983
- Jacob Appelbaum; David Wells; Joseph B. Hiatt; Gideon Steinbach; F. Marc Stewart; Hannah Thomas; Paul Nghiem; Raj P. Kapur; John A. Thompson; Shailender Bhatia. Fatal enteric plexus neuropathy after one dose of ipilimumab plus nivolumab: J Immunother Cancer. 2018 Aug 31;6(1):82. PMCID: PMC6117974
- Jessica M. Sugalski, MPPA; Timothy Kubal, MD, MBA, Daniel L. Mulkerin, MD; Rebecca L. Caires, MBA; Penny J. Moore, MSN, RN, OCN, NEA-BC; Rosanna Fiorarancio Fahy; Jeanine N. Gordon, RN, MSN, OCN, NE-BC; Connie Z. Augustyniak, RN, BSN, OCN; Gina M. Szymanski, MS, RN; MiKaela Olsen, ARRN-CNS, MS, AOCNS; Diedra K. Frantz, RN, BSN; Marisa A. Quinn, RN, MBA; Sharol K. Kidd, RN; Diana M. Krause, MHA; Robert W. Carlson, MD; F. Marc Stewart, MD. National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN®) Infusion Efficiency Workgroup Study: Optimizing Patient Flow in Infusion Centers: J Oncol Pract. 2019 May;15(5):e458-e466. doi: 10.1200/JOP.18.00563 Epub 2019 Apr 9. PMID: 30964732
- Graf SA, Stewart FM: Early Warning Signs: In: Cancer: Prevention, Early Detection, Treatment and Recovery, Second Edition, Edited by Gary Stein and Kimberly Luebbers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019
- Nandita Khera, Jessica Sugalski, Diana Krause, Richard Butterfield III, Nan Zhang, F. Marc Stewart, Robert W. Carlson, Joan M. Griffin, Yousuf Zafar, Stephanie Lee. Current Practices for Screening and Management of Financial Distress at NCCN Member Institutions. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2020 Jul;18(7): 825-831. PMID: 32634772
- Hill JA, Vande Vusse L, Xie H, Chung EL, Yeung C, Seo S, Stevens-Ayers T, Fisher C, Huang ML, Stewart FM, et al. Human Herpesvirus 6B and Lower Respiratory Tract Disease after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Oct 10;37(29): 2670-2681 doi: 10.1200/JCO.19.00908. Epub 2019 Aug 26. PMCID: PMC7351330
- Ueda, M, Martins R, Hendrie P, McDonnell T, Crews J, Wong T, McCreery B, Jagels B, Crane A, Byrd D, Pergam S, Davidson N, Liu C, Stewart FM. Managing Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Agility and Collaboration Toward a Common Goal. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2020 Mar 20; 1-4. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2020.7560. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32197238
- Poston J, Sugalski J, Gernsheimer T, Stewart FM, Pagano M. Mitigation Strategies for Anti-D Alloimmunization by Platelet Transfusion in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients: a Survey of NCCN centres. Vox Sang. 2020 May;115(4): 334-338. doi: 10.1111/vox.12899. Epub 2020 Feb 20. PMID: 32080868