Franklin Oscar Smith, III, gained his MD from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia in 1984, having previously obtained a B.S. in Chemistry, cum laude, from Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Professor Smith served as the Director of the Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Riley Hospital for Children at the Indiana University School of Medicine from 1997 until 2001 when he appointed as the Director of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical, serving in this role until 2010. Since 2001 he has been Marjory J. Johnson Endowed Chair in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Professor of Pediatrics, with Tenure, at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati. He is also currently Interim Director of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Program and Associate Director of the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Training Program in the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He has been the recipient of many awards and honors, including a Distinguished Physician Alumni Award from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Alpha Omega Alpha membership, a Distinguished Service Award from the Children’s Oncology Group, the Amanda Toll Endowed Lectureship, and the Ronald Chard Endowed Lectureship. Professor Smith was the Vice-Chair of the Children’s Oncology Group, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy as a member of the Medical and Scientific Affairs Committee of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. He has served on many National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration ad hoc committees. Professor Smith has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the British Journal of Haematology. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and reviews, many book chapters, editorials, and commentaries and a recent textbook on