Daniel J. Zheng, MD, MHS
About Daniel J. Zheng, MD, MHS
Titles
Attending Physician
Certifications
Pediatrics – American Board of Pediatrics
Awards and Honors
2023, American Society of Hematology Clinical Research Training Institute
2021, ACGME David Leach Award to Health Equity Rounds Team
2020-2021, Boston Combined Residency Program Faculty Teaching Honor Roll
2021, Sidney Farber Award
2020, Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr. Award
2019, Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs Frontiers in Science Symposium
2017, Cum laude, Yale School of Medicine
2017, New England Pediatric Society Prize
2017, American Cancer Society Prize
2017, International Medical Student Education Grant
2015, Farr Scholar
2011, Cum laude, Yale College
2010, Psi Chi International Honors Society in Psychology, Yale College
2007-2011, Robert C. Byrd Scholarship, Yale College
2007, National Merit Scholarship
Leadership and Memberships
2021-present, Children’s Oncology Group
2019-present, American Society of Hematology
2018-present, Academic Pediatric Association
2017-present, American Society of Clinical Oncology
2017-present, American Academy of Pediatrics
Education & training
Graduate Degree
MSH - Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Medical Degree
MD - Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Internship
Pediatrics (Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track), Boston Combined Residency Program – Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Residency
Pediatrics (Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track), Boston Combined Residency Program – Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA (Chief Resident)
Fellowship
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Fellow in National Clinician Scholars Program - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Fellow in National Clinician Scholars Program - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Publications
Publications
2022
Kadan-Lottick NS, Zheng DJ, Wang M, Bishop MW, Srivastava DK, Ross WL, Rodwin RL, Ness KK, Gibson TM, Spunt SL, Okcu MF, Leisenring WM, Robison LL, Armstrong GT, Krull KR. Patient-reported neurocognitive function in adult survivors of childhood and adolescent osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma. J Cancer Surviv. 2022 Jan 21. doi: 10.1007/s11764-021-01154-z. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35059962.
Rainer T*, Zheng DJ* (co-first author), Winn AS, Michelson CD, Sectish TC, Cheston CC. Becoming an Anti-Racist Training Program: A Single Residency's Year of Growth. J Pediatr. 2022 Mar 19:S0022-3476(22)00258-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.03.028. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35314153; PMCID: PMC9124054.
Aziz-Bose R, Zheng DJ, Umaretiya PJ, Ilcisin L, Stevenson K, Koch V, Valenzuela A, Cole PD, Gennarini LM, Kahn JM, Kelly KM, Tran TH, Michon B, Welch JJG, Silverman LB, Wolfe J, Bona K. Feasibility of oncology clinical trial-embedded evaluation of social determinants of health. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2022 Nov;69(11):e29933. doi: 10.1002/pbc.29933. Epub 2022 Sep 7. PMID: 36069432.
2021
Gold NB, Nash KA, Perdomo J, Zheng DJ, Power-Hays A, Rainer T, Hisama F, Pober B, Feinberg E. Delayed diagnosis of Williams-Beuren syndrome in an adolescent of Jamaican descent: examining racial disparities in genetics education. Clin Dysmorphol. 2021 Jan;30(1):69-70. doi: 10.1097/MCD.0000000000000357. PMID: 33136657.
Zheng DJ, Li A, Ma C, Ribeiro KB, Diller L, Bona K, Marron JM. Socioeconomic disparities in survival after high-risk neuroblastoma treatment with modern therapy. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 May 22:e29127. doi: 10.1002/pbc.29127. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34022098.
Umaretiya PJ, Revette A, Seo A, Flamand Y, Ilcisin L, Zheng DJ, Bhatia S, Wolfe J, Bona K. PediCARE: Development of a poverty-targeted intervention for pediatric cancer. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 Jun 30:e29195. doi: 10.1002/pbc.29195. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34190405.
Zheng DJ, Umaretiya PJ, Schwartz ER, Al-Sayegh H, Raphael JL, van Litsenburg RRL, Ma C, Muriel AC, Bona K. Disparities in pediatric psychosocial oncology utilization. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 Nov;68(11):e29342. doi: 10.1002/pbc.29342. Epub 2021 Sep 14. PMID: 34519425; PMCID: PMC8463506.
2019
Herrick-Reynolds K, Sewanan LR, Zheng DJ, Wang P, Encandela J, Shahu A, Reisman A. A novel near-peer reflective writing workshop. Clin Teach. 2019 Aug;16(4):339-344. doi: 10.1111/tct.13057. PMID: 31397104.
Perdomo J, Tolliver D, Hsu H, He Y, Nash KA, Donatelli S, Mateo C, Akagbosu C, Alizadeh F, Power-Hays A, Rainer T, Zheng DJ, Kistin CJ, Vinci RJ, Michelson CD. Health Equity Rounds: An Interdisciplinary Case Conference to Address Implicit Bias and Structural Racism for Faculty and Trainees. MedEdPORTAL. 2019 Nov 22;15:10858. doi: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10858. PMID: 32166114; PMCID: PMC7050660.
2018
Zheng DJ, Lu X, Schore RJ, Balsamo L, Devidas M, Winick NJ, Raetz EA, Loh ML, Carroll WL, Sung L, Hunger SP, Angiolillo AL, Kadan-Lottick NS. Longitudinal analysis of quality-of-life outcomes in children during treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia: A report from the Children's Oncology Group AALL0932 trial. Cancer. 2018 Feb 1;124(3):571-579. doi: 10.1002/cncr.31085. Epub 2017 Nov 7. PMID: 29112230; PMCID: PMC5808870.
Ross WL, Le A, Zheng DJ, Mitchell HR, Rotatori J, Li F, Fahey JT, Ness KK, Kadan-Lottick NS. Physical activity barriers, preferences, and beliefs in childhood cancer patients. Support Care Cancer. 2018 Jul;26(7):2177-2184. doi: 10.1007/s00520-017-4041-9. Epub 2018 Jan 27. PMID: 29383508.
Zheng DJ, Hooper M, Spencer-Manzon M, Pierce RW. A Case of Succinyl-CoA:3- Oxoacid CoA Transferase Deficiency Presenting with Severe Acidosis in a 14- Month-Old Female: Evidence for Pathogenicity of a Point Mutation in the OXCT1 Gene. J Pediatr Intensive Care. 2018 Mar;7(1):62-66. doi: 10.1055/s- 0037-1604270. Epub 2017 Jul 19. PMID: 31073471; PMCID: PMC6260335.
Zheng DJ, Krull KR, Chen Y, Diller L, Yasui Y, Leisenring W, Brouwers P, Howell R, Lai JS, Balsamo L, Oeffinger KC, Robison LL, Armstrong GT, Kadan-Lottick NS. Long-term psychological and educational outcomes for survivors of neuroblastoma: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Cancer. 2018 Aug 1;124(15):3220-3230. doi: 10.1002/cncr.31379. Epub 2018 Jun 11. PMID: 29888538; PMCID: PMC6168938.
Zheng DJ, Shyr D, Ma C, Muriel AC, Wolfe J, Bona K. Feasibility of systematic poverty screening in a pediatric oncology referral center. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 Dec;65(12):e27380. doi: 10.1002/pbc.27380. Epub 2018 Aug 1. PMID: 30069999; PMCID: PMC6193823.
2017
Iyer NS, Mitchell HR, Zheng DJ, Ross WL, Kadan-Lottick NS. Experiences with the survivorship care plan in primary care providers of childhood cancer survivors: a mixed methods approach. Support Care Cancer. 2017 May;25(5):1547-1555. doi: 10.1007/s00520-016-3544-0. Epub 2017 Jan 3. PMID: 28050709.
2016
Liu GZ, Jawitz OK, Zheng D, Gusberg RJ, Kim AW. Reflective Writing for Medical Students on the Surgical Clerkship: Oxymoron or Antidote? J Surg Educ. 2016 Mar- Apr;73(2):296-304. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2015.11.002. Epub 2016 Jan 12. PMID: 26794901; PMCID: PMC5536974.
Zheng DJ, Sint K, Mitchell HR, Kadan-Lottick NS. Patterns and predictors of survivorship clinic attendance in a population-based sample of pediatric and young adult childhood cancer survivors. J Cancer Surviv. 2016 Jun;10(3):505-13. doi: 10.1007/s11764-015-0493-4. Epub 2015 Nov 16. PMID: 26572903.
Le A, Mitchell HR, Zheng DJ, Rotatori J, Fahey JT, Ness KK, Kadan-Lottick NS. A home-based physical activity intervention using activity trackers in survivors of childhood cancer: A pilot study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Feb;64(2):387-394. doi: 10.1002/pbc.26235. Epub 2016 Sep 12. PMID: 27615711.
Abstracts (includes Posters and Scientific Presentations)
2023
Zheng DJ, Getz K, Aplenc R. The impact of relapse on racial and ethnic disparities in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia. Poster presentation at annual meeting of the National Clinician Scholars Program: Half Moon Bay, CA: November 15-17, 2022.
Newman H, Jones E, Umaretiya PJ, Aziz-Bose R, Ilcisin LAS, Zheng DJ, Wolfson JA, Wolfe J, Bona K. Feasibility of the poverty-targeted pediatric cancer resource equity (PediCARE) intervention. Oral presentation at annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology: Chicago, IL: June 2-6, 2023.
Zheng DJ, van der Mei E, Li Y, Huang YV, Aftandilian C, Bona K, Caywood E, Collier AB, Gramatges MM, Heneghan MM, Henry M, Lotterman C, Maloney K, Miller TP, Modi A, Mody R, Morgan E, Winick NJ, Wilkes JJ, Wong V, Newman H, Myers RM, Elgarten CW, Seif AE, Fisher BT, Aplenc R, Getz KD. Survival disparities by frontline clinical trial enrollment status for treatment of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia. Poster presentation at annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology: San Diego, CA: December 9-12, 2023.
Zheng DJ, Li Y, Huang YV, Aftandilian C, Bona K, Caywood E, Collier AB, Gramatges MM, Heneghan MM, Henry M, Lotterman C, Maloney K, Miller TP, Modi A, Mody R, Morgan E, Winick NJ, Wilkes JJ, Wong V, Gathers C, Newman H, Moore RH, Myers RM, Elgarten CW, Seif AE, Fisher BT, Aplenc R, Getz KD. Racial and ethnic differences in acuity and cumulative frontline organ toxicity at the time of relapse in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia. Oral presentation at annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology: San Diego, CA: December 9-12, 2023.
2021
Dennis-Heyward EA, Zheng DJ, Sox C. Evaluation of recruitment initiatives to increase pediatric resident diversity. E-poster presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies 2021 Meeting: Virtual: April 30, 2021.
Lectures by Invitation
2023
Zheng DJ. “Building mechanistic understanding of health inequity in pediatric oncology.” Faculty recruitment talk at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Memphis: TN.