Dr. Christine Pratilas is a pediatric oncologist and research scientist at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She joined the Hopkins pediatric sarcoma team in 2014, after completing her fellowship and spending the early years of her career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Dr. Pratilas’ clinical expertise is in the management of children, adolescents and young adults with sarcomas, with research interests in rhabdomyosarcoma and MPNST. In addition, she sees children with kidney cancers; melanocytic neoplasms and melanoma; children with NF1-associated non-CNS neoplasms; and other rare pediatric cancers. She is an investigator on multiple clinical trials of molecularly targeted therapies in children.

She has a strong interest in pediatric cancer genetics, and together with the Clinical Genetics service and the Comprehensive Neurofibromatosis Center at JH, provides care for children with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), RAS-opathies, and other cancer predisposition syndromes.