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Stephan Kadauke, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Contact InformationChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia
CTRB, 3rd Floor, Room 3016
3501 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 267-616-9737

Research Expertise

Reproducible research, tidyverse, R, RStudio, R Markdown, Quarto, clinical data science, machine learning, tidymodels, GitHub, gene therapy, erythropoiesis, epigenetics, chromatin, CAR-T cells, immunotherapy, virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes, GMP manufacturing

Clinical Expertise

Cellular therapy, cGMP, stem cells, bone marrow transplant, chimeric antigen receptor, CAR-T cells, virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes, T/B cell depletion, cell manufacturing, graft manipulation, CliniMACS Prodigy, transfusion medicine, apheresis, red blood cell exchange, plasma exchange, thalassemia, sickle cell disease, thrombosis and hemostasis, coagulation, utilization management, laboratory information systems, healthcare analytics, clinical informatics, pathology informatics, datamart, enterprise data warehouse

Education

BA (Biochemistry, summa cum laude), Columbia University, 2005
PhD (Cell and Molecular Biology), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 2012
MD, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 2014

Specialty Certification

Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology, 2018
Transfusion Medicine, American Board of Pathology, 2018
Qualification in Apheresis, American Society for Apheresis, 2018
PBC - Certified Tidyverse Instructor, RStudio, 2019
Physician Builder, Epic, Inc., 2020
University of Pathology Informatics, American Society of Clinical Pathology, 2020
Clinical Informatics, American Board of Pathology, 2021
Associate, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect, 2022

Postgraduate Training

Residency in Clinical Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2014-2018
Chief Resident , Massachusetts General Hospital, 2015-2015
Transfusion Medicine Fellowship, Harvard Medical School, 2016-2017

Awards and Honors

Phi Beta Kappa, Early Induction for Top 2% of Graduating Class, Columbia University, 2004
Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2005-2009
Summa cum laude, Columbia University, 2005
Saul Winegrad Award for Outstanding Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2013
Roy G. Williams Award for Meritorious Research in Basic Medical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 2013
Oral Abstract Award, 2022 ASTCT Meeting, 2022-2022

Memberships and Professional Organizations

The Sumaira Foundation for Neuromyelitis Optica, 2014 - 2018
AABB, 2017 - Present
American Society of Apheresis (ASFA), 2018 - Present
College of American Pathologists, 2019 - Present
Association for Pathology Informatics (API), 2019 - Present
International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT), 2019 - Present
American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), 2019 - Present
R/Medicine, 2020 - Present
American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT), 2020 - Present
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2021 - present

Web Links


Selected Publications

Behind the Scenes of CAR-T Cell Therapy at CHOP: the Role of the Clinical Labs

Kadauke S, YouTube, 2023.

Automation of Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Outcomes Reporting Leads to Dramatic Reduction of Errors Reported to Real-World Data Registry

Anderson DS, Hanna RS, Pashmineh Azar AR, Collier V, Hankins P, Loudon B, Olson TS, Grupp SA, Phillips CA, Kadauke S, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy 29(3): 207.e1-207.e5, 2023. PMID:36610491

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Impact of poverty and neighborhood opportunity on outcomes for children treated with CD19-directed CAR T-cell therapy

Newman H, Li Y, Liu H, Myers R, Tam V, DiNofia A, Wray L, Rheingold S, Callahan C, White C, Baniewicz D, Winestone L, Kadauke S, Diorio C, June C, Getz K, Aplenc R, Teachey D, Maude S, Grupp SA, Bona K, Leahy AB, Blood 141(6): 606-619, 2023. PMID:36351239

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Should We Teach Data Science to Laboratorians-in-Training?

Kadauke S, The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine 8(1): 208-212, 2023.

Manufacture and Characterization of GMP-Compliant SARS-COV-2 Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes

Chu Y, Milner J, Lamb M, Maryamchik E, Rigot O, Ayello J, Harrison L, Shaw R, Behbehani GK, Mardis ER, Miller K, Prakruthi L, Venkata R, Chang H, Lee D, Rosenthal E, Kadauke S, Bunin N, Talano JA, Johnson B, Wang Y, Cairo MS, Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022. PMID:36583990

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REDCapTidieR: Extract REDCap Databases into Tidy Tibbles

Hanna RS, Kadauke S. Comprehensive R Archive Network, 2022.

REDCapTidieR: Extracting REDCap Databases into Tidy Tibbles

Kadauke S. YouTube, 2022.

R/Medicine 101: Intro to R for Clinical Data

Kadauke S, Rudolf J, Mathias PC. YouTube, 2022.

Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Survival after CD19 CART Therapy

Newman H, Li Y, Liu H, Tam V, Myers RM, DiNofia AM, Callahan C, White CW, Baniewicz D, Kadauke S, Diorio C, Teachey DT, Rheingold SR, Getz KD, June CH, Aplenc R, Maude SL, Grupp SA, Bona K, Barz Leahy AE, Journal of Clinical Oncology 40(16): 7013, 2022.

A Machine Learning Model that Incorporates CD45 Mean Fluorescence Intensity (MFI) and Cell Composition Predicts Poor Viability of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells after Freeze-Thaw.

Al-Riyami AZ, Hanna RS, Pashmineh Azar AR, Maryamchik E, Zheng X, Zhang X, Finn C, Giacobbe N, Rieser R, Ghasemi Tahrir F, Machietto R, Choudhari SS, Kadauke S, Wang Y, Cytotherapy 24(5): S99-S100, 2022.