Profiles

Dr. Noah Federman is the Director of the Pediatric Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Program at UCLA, part of the UCLA Sarcoma Program and UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Federman specializes in treating children, adolescents and young adults with these aggressive cancers. He runs an incredibly comprehensive and & multidisciplinary program involving pediatric and medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, orthopedic oncology surgeons, musculoskeletal radiologists and pathologists, nuclear medicine specialists, physical therapists and prosthetic specialists. Dr. Federman also specializes in conducting clinical trials and leads an experienced clinical research team devoted to providing access to clinical trials for children with refractory, recurrent and metastatic bone and soft tissue cancers.

Dr. Federman is currently the Medical Director of the UCLA Clinical and Translational Research Center overseeing close to three hundred clinical trials. In addition, he serves as Vice-Chair of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s (CTSI) Scientific Rationale Committee and is Chair of the CTSI Data Safety Monitoring Board. In these roles, he ensures that clinical research is of the highest quality and being performed with utmost safety at UCLA. He is also the Medical Director of the UCLA CTSI’s Research Associates Program (RAP) which provides undergraduate UCLA students with the opportunity to gain exposure to hospital-based medicine as well as clinical research in an academic setting.