My name is Jeff Stevens and I am the Clinical Research Manager of the Seattle Children’s Biorepository and Precision Medicine Team. I am also the Gift From A Child (GFAC) Tissue Navigator at Seattle Children’s Hospital. With a degree focused in molecular biology and biochemistry I have a background working as the Lead Lab Technician in a cancer lab for over 10 years, and transitioned to working in the clinic in 2014.
As the supervisor for our biology, banking, and precision medicine studies, I manage one of the largest pediatric brain tumor cohorts on the West Coast. I am the primary contact for postmortem tumor donation in the Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Seattle Children’s Hospital. I collaborate with several consortiums globally and have been tasked with making it easier for investigators to obtain treatment and outcomes data paired with integrated molecular diagnosis, from all of the families enrolled in the Children’s Brain Tumor Network (CBTN) bio-bank and all other pediatric cancers.
As a scientist and a father of two, It is my mission to collaborate with those who wish to end pediatric cancers. It is delightful to work with patient families, providers, scientists, all of the CBTN, GFAC team members that share the desire to improve on the limited treatments we have available for our patient families.