Katie Therese Carlberg, MD

Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Non-Malignant Transplant Program, Vascular Anomalies, Apheresis, Odessa Brown Children's Clinic

On staff since July 2018

Children's Title: Director, Thalassemia Program and Interim Director, Sickle Cell Program, Cancer and Blood Disorders Center

Academic Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine

Research Center: Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research

"At each stage in my training I been incredibly fortunate to have outstanding mentors and wonderful colleagues, without whom I would be lost. But the reason I began this journey in the first place and why I look forward to coming to the hospital every day has always been the patients and their families! I love meeting new families, hearing their stories, and inevitably learning from their experiences. I am grateful to work in an environment that has allowed me to continue to do this. "

• Biography

  Dr. Katie Carlberg is a pediatric hematologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Well before her formal training began, Dr. Carlberg knew she wanted to care for children with cancer and bleeding disorders. During medical school at SUNY Upstate in New York and then her pediatric residency in Madison, Wisconsin, her interest developed into a passion. During her fellowship at Children’s Hospital Oakland she cared for patients with a broad range of benign hematologic disorders. While there, she joined a forensic lab with extensive experience detecting and working with limited and fragmented DNA. In part supported by Cooley’s Anemia Foundation, her research was focused on the application of this technology towards the development of a noninvasive prenatal test for Beta-hemoglobinopathies (Sickle Cell Anemia and Beta Thalassemia). Through this work, she not only was able to dive deeper into the pathophysiology of these diseases but more importantly, had the opportunity to get to know the patients and their families while consenting and discussing her research.

  She then joined Seattle Children’s Hospital in 2018 as the director of the Thalassemia program where she runs a monthly multidisciplinary clinic. In addition to her clinical responsibilities, she participates in an ongoing national and international dialogue with her colleagues in various forums such as the Thalassemia Western Consortium, Cooley’s Anemia Foundation US Thalassemia Physicians’ Working Group, etc discussing challenging cases, novel therapeutics, and potential for collaborative work to improve the care of these populations.

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• Awards and Honors

  Award Name	Award Description	Awarded By	Award Date
  Teaching Fellow of the Year Award	Given by the pediatric residents to a fellow for outstanding teaching.	UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland	2017
  ASH Abstract Achievement Award	Provided to trainees with high-scoring annual meeting abstracts of which they are the first or senior author and presenter.	American Society of Hematology	2016
  Patient and Family Centered Care Award	This award is given by nurses and child life staff and reflects the four principles of family-centered care.	University of Wisconsin Pediatric Department	2012
  Gold Humanism Honors Society	The GHHS recognizes students, residents and faculty who are exemplars of compassionate patient care and who serve as role models, mentors, and leaders in medicine.	SUNY Upstate Medical University	2010

• Publications

  Manuscripts in Refereed Journals

  • 2. Bose N, Carlberg K, Sensabaugh G, Erlich H, Calloway C
    Target capture enrichment of nuclear SNP markers for massively parallel sequencing of degraded and mixed samples
    Forensic science international Genetics, 2018 : 34186-196

  Book Chapters

  • 1. Carlberg K, Singer T, Vichinsky E
    Advances in understanding pathophysiology and treatment of fertility, pregnancy, and prenatal diagnosis in Thalassemia
    Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America, 2018 : 32(2)297-315

  Manuscripts Submitted

  • 1. Erlich H, Lopez-Pena C, Carlberg K, Shih S, Bali G, Yamaguchi K, Salamon H, Das R, Lal A, Calloway C.
    Non-invasive prenatal test for β-thalassemia and sickle cell disease using probe capture enrichment and next-generation sequencing of DNA in maternal plasma
    

  Other Publications

  • 1. Carlberg K, Hastings C.
    Hyperleukocytosis
    The 5 Minute Pediatric Consult 8th Ddition, 2017

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• Presentations

  Presentations Title	Event	Location	Date
  Development of a Noninvasive Prenatal Test for -Hemoglobinopathies Utilizing NGS and a Novel Probe Capture Panel to Analyze Cell-Free Fetal DNA in Maternal Plasma	Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing Symposium at the Next Generation Dx Summit	Washington, DC	Aug. 18, 2017
  Development of a Nuclear SNP Probe Capture Assay for Massively Parallel Sequencing of Degraded and Mixed Forensic DNA Samples.	69th annual scientific meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Science (AAFS)	New Orleans, LA	Feb. 2017
  Next-Generation Sequencing for β-Globin Disorders: Towards Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis.	Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Disease Symposium: Indo-US Science & Technology Forum	Chandigarh, India	Nov. 2016

• Research Funding

  Grant Title	Grantor	Amount	Award Date
  California Institute for Regenerative Medicine TRAN2	California Institute for Regenerative Medicine		Aug. 2018 - Aug. 2020
  1. Cooleys Anemia Foundation Research Fellowship Grant	Cooley's Anemia Foundation		July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2018