Following you will find information concerning the various people associated
with our program.
When a new patient is referred to our program a primary physician is assigned
to care for this patient by the director. Each of our physicians has a specialty
area in which he performs most of his research. The primary physician makes
decisions concerning the transplant treatment and continues to follow the
patient in clinic post-transplant. The attending physician cares for the
inpatients on a day to day basis. The primary physician is consulted regarding
any major decisions concerning an inpatient.
We use a primary care staffing system that allows the nurses to become
very familiar with an individual patient in the inpatient setting. Our
nursing staff is highly trained and the turnover has been minimal.
Residents and medical students are not employed on our unit due to the
complexities of caring for BMT patients. We feel that it takes extensive
training to develop these skills. We employ three Physician Assistants
who assist the attending physician. Each new patient is assigned a primary
PA who will follow their care from the pre-transplant workup through long-term
follow-up visits. All three of our PAs have been with this program for
over 9 years.
The children on our unit are also supported by a school teacher, child
life specialist, social worker, neuropsychologist, dietician, and numerous
volunteers.
Our coordinator is charged with obtaining insurance approval for treatment,
assisting families in obtaining additional funds as needed, coordination
and scheduling of clinic visits, arranging for all pre-transplant testing,
distribution of information requested by potential patients and referring
physicians. This enables us to provide a centralized office for communications
with our families, insurance companies, and referring physicians.
Transplant Physicians:
Additional Transplant Team Members :
- Elizabeth Field, MD, Director, Tissue Typing Laboratory
- Ronald Strauss, MD, Director, Blood Bank
- Annette Schlueter, MD, Director, Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Laboratory
- Stephen Rumelhart, Certified Physician Assistant
- Myrl Holida, Certified Physician Assistant
- Nita Lee, Certified Physician Assistant
- Mark Sorenson, PMBT Pharmacist
- Sherry Lang, Nurse Manager
- Julie Coffey, Assistant Nurse Manager
- Kathy Duethman, Child Life Specialist
- Sue Benton, Teacher
- Christy Hillberry, Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Laboratory
- Dave Huling, Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Laboratory
- Tim Gehris, Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Laboratory
- Tara Clark, Social Worker; Transplant Coordinator / Data Manager
- Marsha Gerot, Program Secretary
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