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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Location

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Direct phone: (901) 595-4055
Toll-free: (888) 226-4343

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 44
  • PBSC: 70
  • Cord Blood: 0
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 54
Performs pediatric transplants

Overview

Our hospital treats pediatric patients with malignant or non-malignant diseases with autologous or allogeneic transplantation. Our program is strong in unrelated and mismatched related donor transplants. Our center's goal is to provide outstanding patient care while advancing the science of transplantation.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1982 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since February 1993.

Attending physicians

Adult - Rebecca Epperly, Stephen Gottschalk, Renee Madden, Ewelina Mamcarz, Swati Naik, Esther Obeng, Amr Qudeimat, Akshay Sharma, Ashok Srinivasan, Aimee Talleur, Brandon Triplett, Paulina Velasquez

Pediatric - Rebecca Epperly, Stephen Gottschalk, Renee Madden, Ewelina Mamcarz, Swati Naik, Esther Obeng, Amr Qudeimat, Akshay Sharma, Ashok Srinivasan, Aimee Talleur, Brandon Triplett, Paulina Velasquez

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC and single cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Pediatric only

Other programs and services

Housing Options provided: Tri Delta House, Ronald McDonald House, Target House
Ancillary Services: School Program, Parent Mentor Program, Fertility Clinic, transportation services/ZipCars, meal cards/grocery giftcards, concierge services.

About the center

Overview

Our hospital treats pediatric patients with malignant or non-malignant diseases with autologous or allogeneic transplantation. Our program is strong in unrelated and mismatched related donor transplants. Our center's goal is to provide outstanding patient care while advancing the science of transplantation.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1982 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since February 1993.

Attending physicians

Adult - Rebecca Epperly, Stephen Gottschalk, Renee Madden, Ewelina Mamcarz, Swati Naik, Esther Obeng, Amr Qudeimat, Akshay Sharma, Ashok Srinivasan, Aimee Talleur, Brandon Triplett, Paulina Velasquez

Pediatric - Rebecca Epperly, Stephen Gottschalk, Renee Madden, Ewelina Mamcarz, Swati Naik, Esther Obeng, Amr Qudeimat, Akshay Sharma, Ashok Srinivasan, Aimee Talleur, Brandon Triplett, Paulina Velasquez

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC and single cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Pediatric only

Other programs and services

Housing Options provided: Tri Delta House, Ronald McDonald House, Target House
Ancillary Services: School Program, Parent Mentor Program, Fertility Clinic, transportation services/ZipCars, meal cards/grocery giftcards, concierge services.

Overall center survival


Patient survival information for this center

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2019, 2020, 2021, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 149 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 85.7%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 77.5% and 89.0%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

Total transplants

Total transplants


168

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 23 65 0 88
Unrelated donor 21 5 0 26
Total allogeneic 44 70 0 114
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
54
-- 54
Total combined
168 0 168

Transplants by disease

All diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total
Related 78 9 0 0 87
Unrelated 24 2 0 0 26
Autologous 48 6 0 0 54
Total 150 17 0 0 167

Treatments may be similar for diseases within a group. It might be helpful to look at centers that have done transplants for a specific disease and centers that have done transplants for any corresponding broad disease categories.

Centers are not required to report autologous transplants so the numbers might be incomplete.

More information about transplants for this disease can be found:

Additional information

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator:
Katy OConnor
(901) 595-4055
Email: katy.oconnor@stjude.org

Financial representative:
Perian Ragland
(901) 595-3894
Email: perian.ragland@stjude.org

NMDP patient navigators

Patient navigators can answer your questions about choosing a transplant center and provide support and education to help you throughout your transplant journey.

Inside the United States: 1 (888) 999-6743

Outside the United States: 1 (763) 406-3410.
(Long distance or international charges may apply.)

Email: patientinfo@nmdp.org

Survivorship program

This center has separate survivorship programs for adult and pediatric patients.
Please select the program you are interested in.