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National Institutes of Health

Clinical Center, Building 10
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892
Direct phone: (301) 496-4000
http://www.nih.gov

Program Description:

This NIH Clinical Center program supports innovative transplant approaches conducted by three NIH Institutes (NCI, NIAID, and NHLBI). To undergo a transplant, patients must be enrolled in an active clinical trial at one of these institutes.

Contact Information:

If you have transplant-related questions, please contact Jennifer Wilder, transplant center coordinator, at (301) 451-3722 or by e-mail at wilderj@mail.nih.gov.

Program Type:

Adult and Pediatric

Attending Physicians:

(Medical Doctors)

Adult -

George Aue, John Barrett, Minoo Battiwalla, Charles Bolan, Richard Childs, Cynthia Dunbar, Courtney Fitzhugh, Daniel Fowler, Ronald Gress, David Halverson, Nancy Hardy, Dennis Hickstein, Matthew Hsieh, Elizabeth Kang, Harry Malech, Steven Pavletic, Ito Sawa, Claude Sportes, John Tisdale, Danielle Townsley, Adrian Wiestner, Kirsten Williams

Pediatric -

Kristen Baird, Richard Childs, Courtney Fitzhugh, Jason Levin, Crystal Mackall, Claude Sportes, Alan Wayne, Kirsten Williams

Transplants Performed:

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on:

Adult and pediatric

helpExplain Transplant Center HLA Match Requirements

Estimated Search & Transplant Costs

The costs for a transplant vary greatly from center to center and depend on factors such as health insurance, disease type and disease stage of the patient, as well as center-specific billing policies. Examples of costs in the search and transplant include:

  • The amount and geographic location of donors tested
  • Testing needed to confirm a match
  • Processing and collecting of tissue-typing samples
  • Donor workup testing needed
  • Getting the marrow, PBSC or cord blood unit for transplant

For the best understanding of costs of transplant and follow-up for a specific transplant center, contact the center's Financial Representative.

helpExplain Transplant Costs at Different Centers

Financial Services:


Financial services at this center could include:
  • Health insurance information
  • Financial assistance
  • Patient-related resources

Resources for financial information


If you have questions about costs and financial services at this transplant center, you can contact the center's financial representative, Elaine Ayres by e-mail at eayres@mail.nih.gov or by phone at (301) 594-3019.

Many organizations exist to help patients with lodging, transportation and other transplant-related expenses. Visit the National Marrow Donor Program's Patient Organizations database for more information. Financial assistance resources are also listed on this Web site.

Transplant Experience

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1992 and has been an NMDP transplant center since March 2007.

Transplants Reported

(From Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2011
as reported by the centers
)

      Unrelated or Related Donor

Auto-
logous

(PBSC or marrow)

Total

(by transplant type)

Total Non-
Myeloablative transplants*

Marrow

PBSC

Cord
Blood

Unrelated Donor - Adult 0 50 11 --- 61 58
Unrelated Donor - Pediatric 1 9 4 --- 14 13
Related Donor - Adult 0 37 0 --- 37 34
Related Donor - Pediatric 0 0 0 --- 0 0
Autologous - Adult --- --- --- 3 3 ---
Autologous - Pediatric --- --- --- 0 0 ---
Total (by cell source) 1 96 15 3 115 105

*The total Non-Myeloablative transplants column shows a subset of the total number of transplants by type.

To locate centers that perform cord blood transplants, use the search tool on this site.

The NMDP also has Transplants by Disease Charts available showing the number of NMDP coordinated transplants by disease category at each U.S. transplant center.

helpExplain Transplant Experience

Center-Specific Analysis

Survival by Patient's Age, Disease Type and Stage

If you do not find your disease in the statistics below, it may be combined with other similar diseases in a category. Please refer to our broad disease categories page for more information.

Additional Information
Further information about this center, including the number and type of transplants performed in each of the last three years, and the support groups offered, may be found in the BMT InfoNet Transplant Center Directory: http://www.bmtinfonet.org/transplantcenters.

BMT InfoNet (Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network) is a nonprofit organization that provides information and emotional support to transplant patients and their families.

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