Carola Schmidt

Carola Schmidt is a Pediatric Oncology Pharmacist & Writer, Springer Nature author of books in pediatric oncology, Reycraft Books children’s author and author of children’s books about cancer.

Carola has extensive experience in chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation—an area that she loves—for children and has handled thousands doses for kids of all ages, including babies. She is an Oncological Hospital Pharmacy specialist with an MBA in Planning and Business Management, and has experience with adult oncology, as well.

“Belonging” is a subject that has always fascinated her and directs her writing for children’s books. She believes that each of us has our own stories, history and the desire to belong. As she explains her understanding of it, our memories are like a living tissue that intersects with other people and their lives. It’s not something static or even physical. These intersections encompass the people we meet, all of our experiences and feelings about the places we have been—all of it forms who we really are, with our families, friends, and our homes. That’s the meaning of belonging to her.

Her favorite word is “homing.” When she learned about homing of stem cells, she fell in love with the complex biochemical processes that make stem cells (that are collected from a donor’s bone marrow or "mobilized" blood) able to be infused into a receptor’s arm vein—they can find their way home to the receptor’s bone marrow!

Homing, for her, is highly related to belonging. These themes gave her the idea to write Chubby’s Tale: the true story of a teddy bear who beat cancer, which entered BookAuthority’s list of the “Best Leukemia Books of All Time”.

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