Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Leo Mascarenhas, MD, MS is the Deputy Director of the Cancer and Blood Disease Insititute and the Section Head of Oncology within the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). He is also the Director of the Sarcoma and Solid Tumor Program and the Principal Investigator of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) funded Children’s Oncology Group (COG) at CHLA. He holds the Associate’s Sarcoma Program Chair at CHLA. He also serves as the Chairman of the Voting Body of COG.
Dr. Mascarenhas is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and an attending oncologist in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow transplantation at CHLA. Dr. Mascarenhas is an internationally recognized expert in pediatric bone and soft tissue tumors. His research focus is on clinical trials for sarcomas in pediatrics, adolescents and young adults, as well as developmental therapeutics for pediatric solid tumors. Dr. Mascarenhas is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in General Pediatrics and Hematology/Oncology.