Kevin O McNerney

Dr. McNerney is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and specializes in bone marrow transplantation and cellular immunotherapy at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. He has a particular interest in the use of cellular immunotherapies to treat childhood cancer. Dr. McNerney earned his medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire. He completed a categorical pediatric residency from Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, followed by a fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology and an advanced fellowship in pediatric cancer immunotherapy and bone marrow transplant from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He has a master’s degree in Translational Research from the University of Pennsylvania and completed the Cell and Gene Therapy clinical training program at University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. McNerney’s clinical and research interests include the application of cellular immunotherapies to improve outcomes in pediatric cancers that carry poor prognoses by identifying strategies to limit toxicities and improve efficacy of these transformative therapies.