Episode 12 features Dr. Nick Vitanza who was part of the first interview that I hosted with Jace Ward. He was Mithil's first doctor and now serves on the Board of the Mithil Prasad Foundation and is a close friend to our family.
Dr. Nicholas Vitanza is a pediatric neuro-oncologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital and laboratory researcher at The Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. In clinic, he cares for children with central nervous system tumors and, in the lab, he focuses on understanding the epigenetic aberrations of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and its molecular vulnerabilities with the hope of improving outcomes for affected children. He also assists in the development of immunotherapy clinical trials for children with brain and spinal tumors.