Jerry C. Cheng, MD

Biography

Associate Professor

Clinical Science

Dr. Jerry C. Cheng is a Southern California Permanente Medical Group physician serving as Chief of Pediatrics and lead for pediatric and young adult bone marrow transplant at the Los Angeles Medical Center.

Education and Training

Degrees: BS, magna cum laude, University of California at Berkeley
MD, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine

Internship: Intern, pediatrics, Mattel Children’s Hospital at University of California Los Angeles

Residency: Resident, pediatrics, Mattel Children’s Hospital at University of California Los Angeles

Fellowship: Fellow, pediatric hematology-oncology, Mattel Children’s Hospital at University of California Los Angeles

Professional Positions

Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Per Diem: Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center; 2015-present

Pediatric Infusion Center Lead, 4700 Sunset CSG Champion, Co-founder Regional Adolescent and Young Adult Tumor Program: Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center; 2016-present

Advisory Council Chair: Kaiser Permanente National Transplant Services; 2016

Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics: David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles; 2017

Chief of Service: Pediatric Department, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles; 2019

Honors and Awards

Mead-Johnson Fellow Teaching Award: Mattel Children’s Hospital; 2005

Merit Award: Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center; 2008, 2009

Attending of the Year: Kaiser Permanente Peds Residency; 2010

Walter Lusk Award: Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center; 2015

Scholarly Activities

Peer-reviewed research manuscripts

Pellegrini M1, Cheng JC, Voutila J, Judelson D, Taylor J, Nelson SF, Sakamoto KM. Expression profile of CREB knockdown in myeloid leukemia cells. BMC Cancer. 2008 Sep 18;8:264. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-264.
Solis OE1, Mehta RI, Lai A, Mehta RI, Farchoukh LO, Green RM, Cheng JC, Natarajan S, Vinters HV, Cloughesy T, Yong WH. Rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor: a pineal region case with IDH1 and IDH2 mutation analyses and literature review of 43 cases. J Neurooncol. 2011 May;102(3):477-84. doi: 10.1007/s11060-010-0335-1. Epub 2010 Sep 25.
Tidwell T1, Wechsler J, Nayak RC, Trump L, Salipante SJ, Cheng JC, Donadieu J, Glaubach T, Corey SJ, Grimes HL, Lutzko C, Cancelas JA, Horwitz MS. Neutropenia-associated ELANE mutations disrupting translation initiation produce novel neutrophil elastase isoforms. Blood. 2014 Jan 23;123(4):562-9. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-07-513242. Epub 2013 Nov 1.
Epstein JB, Raber-Durlacher JE, Huysmans MC, Schoordijk MCE, Cheng JE, Bensadoun RJ, Arany PR. Photobiomodulation Therapy Alleviates Tissue Fibroses Associated with Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease: Two Case Reports and Putative Anti-Fibrotic Roles of TGF-β. Photomed Laser Surg. 2018 Feb;36(2):92-99. doi: 10.1089/pho.2017.4297. Epub 2017 Oct 19.
Pawlowska AB, Cheng JC, Karras NA, Sun W, Wang LD, Bell AD, Gutierrez L, Rosenthal J. HLA Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplant with Pretransplant Immunosuppression for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2018 Jan;24(1):185-189. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.08.039. Epub 2017 Sep 20.
Sy A, Cheng J, Cooper R, Mueller L. Heterozygosity for CMT Type 4 Predicts a Severe Vincristine-induced Polyneuropathy Phenotype: A Case Report and Review of Literature. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2019 Jan;41(1):e41-e43. doi: 10.1097/MPH.0000000000001230. Review.
Bradford K, Nobori A, Johnson B, Allen-Rhoades W, Naik-Mathuria B, Panosyan EH, Gotesman M, Lasky J, Cheng J, Ikeda A, Goldstein J, Singh A, Federman N. Primary Renal Ewing Sarcoma in Children and Young Adults. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2020 Apr 10. doi: 10.1097/MPH.0000000000001804. [Epub ahead of print]