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Introducing the StemCyte Medical Advisory Board:

StemCyte, the exclusive processing laboratory for StemCyte Family, is guided by a world-renowned Medical Advisory Board that features pre-eminent stem cell transplant and blood bank physicians.

Partial list of Advisory Board members

Richard Champlin, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation Robert C. Hickey Chair in Clinical Cancer Care Associate Head, Hematology, Division of Medicine University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Co-editor of a comprehensive textbook on transplantation: Clinical Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplantation, Third edition. Atkinson K, Champlin R, Ritz J, Fibbe WE, Ljungman P, Brenner MK, editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004, 1968 pp.
Marcos De Lima, M.D.
Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas

Stephen Forman, M.D.
Director, Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine University of Southern California School of Medicine Department of Hematology
Co-edited Thomas' Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, 3rd edition. Blume KG, Forman SJ, Appelbaum FR, editors. Blackwell Publishing, Inc. Williston, VT, 2004,1563 pp.
Michael Graham, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona

Dr. Jill Hows
The Leukaemia Lifeline Centre Department of Transplantation Sciences Southmead Hospital Westbury-on-Trym Bristol BS10 5NB United Kingdom

Steven Kleinman, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada Transfusion Medicine Consultant to National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study
Consultant to blood collection agencies, hospitals, government and industry.
Mary Laughlin, M.D.
Allogeneic Transplant Program Ireland Cancer Center Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Co-editor of text book on stem cell transplantation, Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation, Laughlin MJ, Lazarus HM. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2003, 454 pp.
Bertram Lubin, M.D.
Children''s Hospital Oakland Research Institute Oakland, California

Auayporn P. Nadamanee, M.D.
Associate Director, Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation Director, Allogeneic Transplant Program City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California

Richard J. O'Reilly, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Chair, Department of Pediatrics Chief, Bone Marrow Transplant Service Claire L. Tow Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research
Robertson Parkman, M.D.
Director of Research Immunology Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation Children''s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Professor Lawrence D. Petz, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, StemCyte International Cord Blood Center Emeritus Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Former Director of Transfusion Medicine, UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, California
Dr. Petz joined StemCyte after serving as Director of Transfusion Medicine and Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at UCLA Medical Center. Prior to UCLA, Dr. Petz was Chairman of the Division of Medicine, Section Head of Hematology, and Director of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Immunology at the City of Hope National Medical Center. Dr. Petz is the author or editor of several well-known, authoritative textbooks, including the first bone marrow stem cell transplant textbook, Clinical Bone Marrow Transplantation (1983), all three editions of the widely used blood bank textbook, Clinical Practice of Transfusion Medicine, and the co-author of Immune Hemolytic Anemias, now in its second edition. As a pre-eminent authority in transfusion medicine and transplantation, Dr. Petz has authored and edited hundreds of publications, book chapters, and reviews, and has published in New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Transfusion Medicine, Transfusion, Transplantation, Bone Marrow Transplant, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Postgraduate Medicine, Transfusion Medicine, Medicine, Journal of Immunology, Blood, British Journal of Hematology, to name just a few. Dr. Petz is a diplomate in internal medicine and subspecialty board diplomate in hematology. He has chaired or served on over twenty transfusion medicine and hematology committees, and has received some of the highest honors in transfusion medicine, including the Emily Cooley Award, the and Morten Grove-Rasmussen Memorial Award and the Tibor Greenwalt Memorial Award and Lectureship from the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB); the Transfusion Medicine Academic Award from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and the Owen Thomas Award from the California Blood Bank Society. Dr. Petz chairs StemCyte's prestigious Medical Advisory Board.
Joseph Rosenthal, M.D.
Director, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California

David Senitzer, Ph.D.
Director, Histocompatibility Laboratory City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California

Elizabeth J. Shpall, M.D.
Director of Cord Blood Transplant Program Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

E. Richard Steihm, M.D.
Professor and Vice Chair Head, Division of Allergy and Immunology Department of Pediatrics UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Mark Walters, M.D.
Children''s Hospital Oakland Research Institute Oakland, California

John Zaia, M.D.
Director, Department of Virology Head, Virology and Infectious Diseases Department of Pediatrics Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope Duarte, California


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