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Oregon Health & Science University

Mail Code UHN73C
3181 Southwest Sam Jackson Park Road
Portland, OR 97239
Direct phone: (503) 494-0672
Toll-free phone: (888) 222-6478
http://www.ohsu.edu

Program Description:

OHSU is a comprehensive FACT-accredited program. Our multidisciplinary approach for the delivery of personalized care of patients is combined with a strong commitment to the conduct of innovative transplant research, optimizing transplant options for residents of Oregon and the Northwest.

Contact Information:

If you have transplant-related questions, please contact Kelli Goslee, transplant center coordinator, at (503) 494-0672 or by e-mail at gosleek@ohsu.edu.

Program Type:

Adult and Pediatric

Attending Physicians:

(Medical Doctors)

Adult -

Andy Chen, Kim-Hien T. Dao, James Gajewski, Brandon M. Hayes-Lattin, Shernan Holtan, Tibor Kovacsovics, Michael Mauro, Richard T. Maziarz, Gabrielle Meyers, Laura Newell, Emma Scott, Stephen E.F. Spurgeon

Pediatric -

Bill Chang, Peter Kurre, Thomas Lamkin, Susan Lindemulder, Suman Malempati, Kellie Nazemi, Eneida Nemecek, H. Stacy Nicholson, Michael Recht, Evan Shereck, Linda Stork, Gregory Thomas, David Tilford, Lawrence J. Wolff

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, Tracy Eilers by e-mail at eilerst@ohsu.edu or by phone at (503) 494-5106.

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 1991 and has been an NMDP transplant center since June 1996.

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 7 97 1 --- 105 67
Unrelated Donor - Pediatric 12 5 14 --- 31 7
Related Donor - Adult 0 49 0 --- 49 23
Related Donor - Pediatric 11 1 0 --- 12 3
Autologous - Adult --- --- --- 174 174 ---
Autologous - Pediatric --- --- --- 19 19 ---
Total (by cell source) 30 152 15 193 390 100

*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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