Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship, Pediatrics, Duke University 2007 - 2010
  • Pediatric Internship & Residency, Pediatrics, Duke University 2003 - 2006
  • M.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey 2003
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology, Pediatrics 2010 - 2016
  • Clinical Associate in the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Pediatrics 2006 - 2007
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • High Fidelity Diffusion MRI for Children with Cerebral Palsy in Stem Cell Therapy awarded by National Institutes of Health 2012 - 2022
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Carpenter, KLH, Major, S, Tallman, C, Chen, LW, Franz, L, Sun, J, Kurtzberg, J, Song, A, and Dawson, G. "White Matter Tract Changes Associated with Clinical Improvement in an Open-Label Trial Assessing Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood for Treatment of Young Children with Autism." Stem Cells Translational Medicine 8, no. 2 (February 2019): 138-147.  Full Text
    • Leckey, BD, Carney, JM, Sun, JM, and Pavlisko, EN. "Novel intronic DICER1 variation associated with pleuropulmonary blastoma in two siblings." Bmj Case Reports 12, no. 1 (January 20, 2019).  Full Text
    • Murias, M, Major, S, Compton, S, Buttinger, J, Sun, JM, Kurtzberg, J, and Dawson, G. "Electrophysiological Biomarkers Predict Clinical Improvement in an Open-Label Trial Assessing Efficacy of Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood for Treatment of Autism." Stem Cells Translational Medicine 7, no. 11 (November 2018): 783-791.  Full Text
    • Sun, JM, and Kurtzberg, J. "Cell therapy for diverse central nervous system disorders: inherited metabolic diseases and autism." Pediatric Research 83, no. 1-2 (January 2018): 364-371. (Review)  Full Text
    • Sun, JM, Song, AW, Case, LE, Mikati, MA, Gustafson, KE, Simmons, R, Goldstein, R, Petry, J, McLaughlin, C, Waters-Pick, B, Chen, LW, Wease, S, Blackwell, B, Worley, G, Troy, J, and Kurtzberg, J. "Effect of Autologous Cord Blood Infusion on Motor Function and Brain Connectivity in Young Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial." Stem Cells Translational Medicine 6, no. 12 (December 2017): 2071-2078.  Full Text
    • Dawson, G, Sun, JM, Davlantis, KS, Murias, M, Franz, L, Troy, J, Simmons, R, Sabatos-DeVito, M, Durham, R, and Kurtzberg, J. "Autologous Cord Blood Infusions Are Safe and Feasible in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Results of a Single-Center Phase I Open-Label Trial." Stem Cells Translational Medicine 6, no. 5 (May 2017): 1332-1339.  Full Text
    • Sun, JM, Grant, GA, McLaughlin, C, Allison, J, Fitzgerald, A, Waters-Pick, B, and Kurtzberg, J. "Repeated autologous umbilical cord blood infusions are feasible and had no acute safety issues in young babies with congenital hydrocephalus." Pediatric Research 78, no. 6 (December 2015): 712-716.  Full Text
    • Sun, JM, and Kurtzberg, J. "Cord blood for brain injury." Cytotherapy 17, no. 6 (June 2015): 775-785. (Review)  Full Text
    • Englander, ZA, Sun, J, Laura Case, , Mikati, MA, Kurtzberg, J, and Song, AW. "Brain structural connectivity increases concurrent with functional improvement: evidence from diffusion tensor MRI in children with cerebral palsy during therapy." Neuroimage. Clinical 7 (January 9, 2015): 315-324.  Full Text
    • Sun, JM, and Kurtzberg, J. "Cord blood for brain injury." Cytotherapy 17, no. 6 (January 1, 2015): 775-785. (Review)  Full Text
    • "Optimizing donor selection for public cord blood banking: Influence of maternal, infant, and collection characteristics on cord blood unit quality." Transfusion 54, no. 2 (February 1, 2014): 340-352.  Full Text
    • Page, KM, Mendizabal, A, Betz-Stablein, B, Wease, S, Shoulars, K, Gentry, T, Prasad, VK, Sun, J, Carter, S, Balber, AE, and Kurtzberg, J. "Optimizing donor selection for public cord blood banking: influence of maternal, infant, and collection characteristics on cord blood unit quality." Transfusion 54, no. 2 (February 2014): 340-352.  Full Text
    • Englander, ZA, Pizoli, CE, Batrachenko, A, Sun, J, Worley, G, Mikati, MA, Kurtzberg, J, and Song, AW. "Diffuse reduction of white matter connectivity in cerebral palsy with specific vulnerability of long range fiber tracts." NeuroImage: Clinical 2, no. 1 (2013): 440-447.  Full Text
    • Sun, J, Allison, J, McLaughlin, C, Sledge, L, Waters-Pick, B, Wease, S, and Kurtzberg, J. "Differences in quality between privately and publicly banked umbilical cord blood units: a pilot study of autologous cord blood infusion in children with acquired neurologic disorders." Transfusion 50, no. 9 (September 2010): 1980-1987.  Full Text
    • Benjamin, DK, Smith, PB, Sun, MJM, Murphy, MD, Avant, D, Mathis, L, Rodriguez, W, Califf, RM, and Li, JS. "Safety and transparency of pediatric drug trials." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 163, no. 12 (December 2009): 1080-1086.  Full Text
    • Sun, J, Driscoll, T, Prasad, V, Parikh, S, Szabolcs, P, Kurtzberg, J, and Martin, P. "Unrelated Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation is an Effective Therapy for Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome." Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 15, no. 2 (February 2009): 76-76.  Full Text
    • Baker-Smith, CM, Benjamin, DK, Grabowski, HG, Reid, ED, Mangum, B, Goldsmith, JV, Murphy, MD, Edwards, R, Eisenstein, EL, Sun, J, Califf, RM, and Li, JS. "The economic returns of pediatric clinical trials of antihypertensive drugs." American Heart Journal 156, no. 4 (October 2008): 682-688.  Full Text

  • Book Sections

    • Sun, JM, and Kurtzberg, J. "Cord Blood Transplantation in Hematological and Metabolic Diseases." In Translating Regenerative Medicine to the Clinic, 285-295. January 1, 2015.  Full Text
    • Sun, JM, and Kurtzberg, J. "Emerging uses of cord blood in regenerative medicine-neurological applications." In Cord Blood Stem Cells Medicine, 167-177. December 10, 2014.  Full Text
    • Sun, JM, and Kurtzberg, J. "Umbilical cord blood transplantation." In Neonatal Hematology: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Management of Hematologic Problems, Second Edition, 328-336. January 1, 2010.  Full Text

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