Memorial Sloan Kettering pediatric oncologist Maria Luisa Sulis

Maria Luisa Sulis, MD, MS

Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist

Areas of Expertise

Conditions I Treat

  • Pediatric cancers
  • Pediatric leukemias
  • Pediatric lymphomas

My Specialties

  • Pediatric cancer care
  • Precision medicine
  • Clinical trials
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Dr. Sulis's Office Information
Languages: English, Italian, and Spanish
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Get to Know Me

As a pediatric oncologist on the MSK Kids team, I am privileged to care for children with blood cancer. Most children with blood cancer today are cured, thanks to decades of collaboration among children’s cancer specialists around the world. However, the cure rate for children with cancer that does not respond to conventional therapy is still too low.

My research focuses on acute leukemia resistant to conventional therapies. My colleagues and I hope to use the advances we make in our understanding of the biology of leukemia and how patients respond to therapy to improve the effectiveness of children’s cancer treatment. I enjoy working closely with laboratory scientists, hematopathologists, and bioinformaticians. I strongly believe in two-way interaction. By bringing challenging questions to the laboratory, and making new diagnostic and treatment discoveries, we can cure more children with blood cancer while limiting the side effects of therapy.

I work closely with investigators in the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) and other collaborative groups to design clinical trials of new treatments for children with high-risk disease. For COG, I develop studies for children with newly diagnosed and relapsed T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. We study how to prevent a relapse of acute myeloid leukemia after a stem cell transplant.

Within MSK Kids, I oversee the clinical program for children with blood disorders. I work with an experienced and talented group of doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, child life specialists, care coordinators, and social workers. Together, we give all the children we care for and their families the most comprehensive care. We strive to understand each child’s cancer as much as we can, to tailor therapy to their needs, to predict the risk of the cancer coming back, and to counsel families who may have an inherited risk of developing cancer. We work to support each child and family through their journey. We want to make a difficult and frightening experience as bearable as possible. At the end of the day, we are only successful if every patient and family feel they have received the best care.

What I Do at MSK

I'm a pediatric hematologist-oncologist, which is a doctor who treats cancers and blood diseases in children, adolescents, and young adults.

  • Chief, Pediatric Hematologic Malignancies Service
Areas of Expertise

Conditions I Treat

  • Pediatric cancers
  • Pediatric leukemias
  • Pediatric lymphomas
  • Histiocytosis

My Specialties

  • Pediatric cancer care
  • Precision medicine
  • Clinical trials
Education & Honors

Education

  • MD, University of Cagliari, Italy

Residencies

  • Pediatrics - St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, New York Medical College

Fellowships

  • Pediatric Hematology and Oncology - NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center

Board Certifications

  • Pediatrics
  • Pediatric Hematology-Oncology

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Contact and Location

Dr. Sulis sees patients at one location.

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New York, NY
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
1275 York Avenue New York NY 10065
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Research and Publications

Publications on PubMed

Visit PubMed for a full listing of Dr. Sulis’s journal articles. Pubmed is an online index of research papers and other articles from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

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Disclosures

Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.

MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.

Maria Luisa Sulis discloses the following relationships and financial interests:

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