Devorah Segal, MD PhD, Pediatric Neuro-oncology

Dr. Devorah Segal earned her MD and PhD in Neuroscience at Icahn Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She completed her pediatrics and pediatric neurology training at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and then completed a fellowship in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology at NYU Langone Medical Center. She spent several years practicing general child neurology and neurogenetics at Weill Cornell, including helping lead a research neurogenetics clinics. She is now a pediatric neurologist and neuro-oncologist at NYU Langone, where she is associate director of the Neurofibromatosis Center. She treats patients of all ages with neurofibromatosis and schwannomatosis and leads several clinical trials treating pediatric brain tumors, neurofibromatosis, and other neuro-genetic disorders.

Rachel Offenbacher, MD, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Rachel Offenbacher, MD, a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. She received her Medical Degree from SUNY Downstate after completing the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education (a 7 year BS/MD program at CUNY). She completed her residency and fellowship at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was recruited to lead a translation sarcoma research lab. One of her areas of focus is investigating the effect of difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) on Ewing sarcoma and osteosarcoma metastasis. This work provides the scientific rationale for a clinical trial where she serves as Principal Investigator.