New in 2025.

Master Class Styed Education Camps

Join us live to listen to expert presentations and participate in an interactive Q&A session. Whether you're looking to deepen your understanding of Immuno-Heme or have specific questions on your mind, this event promises to be both enlightening and engaging. Our speakers will delve into the latest insights and trends, providing valuable perspectives that you won't want to miss. Plus, the interactive Q&A allows you to connect directly, ensuring your queries and curiosities are addressed. Mark your calendar, invite your friends, and prepare to be inspired! (CME Available)

About Us.

An Inclusive Multi-Disciplinary Community

Founded in 2016, the North American Immuno-Hematology Clinical Education & Research Consortium, encompasses all disorders within immuno-hematology including those with complex immune cytopenias, bone marrow failure, lymphoproliferative and histiocytic disorders, immune deficiencies, autoinflammatory disorders and immune dysregulatory syndromes along with emerging phenotypes of a similar nature.

NICER is committed to being purposefully inclusive of pediatric and adult providers from multiple disciplines including, allergy/immunology, genetics, hematology/oncology, hematopoietic stem cell transplant, rheumatology, infectious disease, gastroenterology, endocrinology, etc. to enrich the educational environment and research goals of the consortium.

Executive Committee

Kelly Walkovich, MD

Executive Director

University of Michigan

Melissa Rose, DO

Educaton Chair

Nationwide Children's

Christopher Failing, MD

Education Co-Chair

Sanford Health

James Connelly, MD

Research Chair

Vanderbilt University

Xiao Peng, MD PhD

Research Co-Chair

Montiefore

Saara Kaviany, DO

Clinical Chair

University of Chicago

Rohith Jesudas, MD

Clinical Co-Chair

St. Jude Research Hospital

Allie Remiker, MD

Communications & Empowerment Chair
Medical College of Wisconsin

Laura Bou-Maroun, MD

Communications & Empowerment Co-Chair

University of Michigan

Christen Ebens, MD

Steering Committee Chair

University of Minnesota

Jolan Walter, MD PhD

Senior Counselor

University of South Florida

Mark Dulchavsky, MD PhD

Junior Counselor

University of Michigan

Join Us.

NICER Consortium relies on two types of membership: institutional members and individual members to allow for robust and meaningful participation by all those interested. Members from the fields of hematology/oncology, allergy/immunology, rheumatology, genetics, infectious disease, diagnostic immunology and more are actively being recruited.

For those not in a position to join NICER at an institutional level, we welcome your participation as an individual member. Individual members are noted as important contributors to the vibrancy and success of NICER and enjoy the benefits of access to all NICER educational activities (e.g. the monthly patient case conferences, mini symposia), options to propose research studies in collaboration with an institutional member and authorship opportunities for significant contributions to NICER research. Individual members fee is $200 annually or $500 every 3 years.

Importantly, all members have access to mentoring initiatives and to real-time communication options via the NICER listservs and chat rooms for in-the-moment expertise, feedback and support at your fingertips.

Our Institutional Members

Currently onboarding new members.

University of Michigan

PI: Kelly Walkovich, MD

Co-I:Mark Hannibal, MD, PhD

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

PI: James Connelly, MD

Co-I: Dan Dulek, MD

St. Jude

PI: Rohith Jesudas, MD

Co-I: Parul Rai, MD

University of Minnesota

PI: Beth Thielen, MD, PhD

Co-I: Christen Ebens, MD

University of Chicago

PI: Saara Kaviany, DO

Nationwide Children's Hospital

PI: Melissa Rose, DO

Johns Hopkins Medicine

PI: Matthew Merguerian, MD PhD

Co-I: Howard Lederman, MD

Cleveland Clinic

PI: Adrian Lesmana, MD, FAAP, FACMG

Co-I: Seth Corey, MD

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

PI: Sarah Henrickson, MD, PhD

Co-I: Scott Canna, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

PI: Allie Remiker, MD

University of South Florida, Johns Hopkins

PI: Jolan Walter, MD, PhD

Co-I: Emma Westermann-Clark, MD

Indiana University

PI: Kathleen Overholt, MD

Co-I: Jay Jin, MD, PhD

UH Rainbow Babies & Children's

PI: JP Matias Lopes, MD

Co-I: Jignesh Dalal, MD

The Hospital for Sick Children

PI: Eyal Grunebarm, MD

Phoenix Children's Hospital

PI: Holly Miller, DO

Cook Children's Medical Center

PI: Natalia Chaimowitz, MD, PhD

Sanford Health

PI: Christopher Failing, MD

Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital,

PI: Lisa Forbes Satter, MD

Co-I: Amanda Grimes, MD

Washington University of St. Louis

PI: Irem Eldem, MD

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

PI: Ramasubramanian Kalpatthi, MD

Co-I: Hey Jin Chong, MD, PhD

UT Southwestern

PI: Kathryn Dickerson, MD

Co-I: Christian Wysocki, MD, PhD

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