Volume 27 • No. 10
Doctor without 'white coat' offers political reality check
Medical board clarifies policies for conflicts of interests, human subjects
Overzealous spam blockers zap key E-mail
Sorensen, hematologist, medical board member is advocate for community colleagues
Otolaryngology becomes department
BMT numbers grow past landmark number
Tony Perez, of Los Banos, speaks last summer at the 15th Annual BMT Patient Reunion, attended by 280 former patients and 800 guests. Perez, like others who received transplants more than 10 years ago, was given a lei. He was transplanted in 1992
BMT numbers grow past landmark number
The Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program performed its 3,000th transplant on Oct 7. The program is directed by Robert S. Negrin, associate professor of medicine (bone marrow transplantation) and was founded in 1987 by Karl Blume, now professor emeritus. The service currently performs about 200 adult transplants each year for patients with a variety of malignant and non-malignant diseases including lymphoma, myeloma, leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome and selected solid tumors. In addition to the milestone of the 3,000th transplant, the program was notified in October that it received re-accreditation for three years from the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT).
