At UVA Children’s, you’ll receive care at the #1 children’s hospital in Virginia. And you'll benefit from the only NCIdesignated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the state. We offer the most advanced cancer treatments, rightsized for kids.

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Daniel "Trey" Lee, MD:
Here at UVA Children's, we pride ourselves on providing the best possible care for your child with cancer.

Margaret Sennett, PNP:
We involve the families, the parents in all of the decisionmaking, and to literally and figuratively hold their hand through this journey.

Brian Belyea, MD:
We believe in being completely transparent. We know that having our patients and families involved in all the decisions will ultimately help them feel most comfortable and help build a trusting relationship that we can move forward together with.

Colleen Druzgal, MD:
When you're interacting with a child who has cancer, you really are interacting with the whole family. You're interacting with parents to try to explain, again, lots of complicated medications and a treatment plan at a time when things can be really uncertain and scary for them.

Sara Gunnoe, PAC:
We have many different physicians with a variety of specializations, as well as support staff who are knowledgeable in their area, who are here to support patients and their families through all aspects of oncology care.

Mike Engel, MD:
We take a very holistic and multidisciplinary approach to caring for patients. Our patients generally need more than just the medicines that we administer or the procedures that we perform. They also need help incorporating this lifechanging diagnosis into their life.

Colleen Druzgal, MD:
I think our nurses are amazing people who spend time in some of the most difficult situations.

Evelyn JoranThiel, PNP:
Our nurse practitioner team is a very cohesive team. Among us, we have about 60 or 70 years of experience in pediatric oncology, and we work very well with each other to coordinate care for our patients.

Margaret Sennett, PNP:
We become part of their family. They become part of our Hem/Onc family. I love the kids. The kids are so fun. Every room you walk into, you walk back out laughing and with a smile because the kids are so entertaining.

Daniel "Trey" Lee, MD:
This whole team comes together to focus in on that one child at a time to try to understand, how can we improve their journey through their cancer diagnosis and treatment? And I think that's really the power of our group in treating children with cancer.

Mike Engel, MD:
Because ultimately, we just want every kid to survive their disease and go on and live a happy, healthy life.