department of medicine

fox chase temple bone marrow transplant program

Information for Health Professionals

Our program has always strived to be an open resource for your patients with hematologic malignancies. Our 18-bed unit is now accepting patients for leukemic inductions as well as patients ready for the transplant process. We hope to work as part of your team and would always appreciate seeing patients early in their treatment to help triage their illness from a transplant perspective.

Our Temple Physician Liaison Service is another resource available to you for more information about our program and protocols and to help facilitate patient visits and communication with the program.

The physician liaison for the Bone Marrow Transplant Program is:

Joell Alter
Phone: 215-707-6006
Pager: 215-363-0676
Email:  Joell.Alter@tuhs.temple.edu

Please feel free to contact him to:

• Answer your questions
• Arrange an in-office educational presentation to meet the specific needs of your practice
• Advise on services and physician specialities (ask for our physician listing)
• Coordinate contacts with nurse specialists, insurers, and managed care companies
• Update you on eligibility for bone marrow transplant and leukemia clinical trials offered at our program
• Invite you to accredited continuing medical education events
• Help you quickly resolve problems
  
  

The best way to initiate a referral is to call one of our experienced transplant coordinators to schedule a visit. If there are any questions you have about the referral patient or anything that is not answered by our web site, then a direct call to one of our physicians is the best course. We will always be glad to discuss the eligibility of a patient or even answer questions about the potential next best course of action outside transplant considerations.

Requirements for evaluation of transplant candidates at the Fox Chase-Temple BMT Program are as follows:

• Please forward updated records including a complete history and physical, records of initial and recent bone-marrow biopsies and other pathologic data, initial and recent imaging reports, and pertinent labs.

• After their initial visit and prior to proceeding to transplant, patients must sign a written informed consent and attend a 2 to 3 hour education session with a BMT physician.

• Pre-transplant testing includes infectious disease blood tests, complete pulmonary function tests, cardiac scan for left and right ventricular ejection fraction, liver and renal function blood tests, and confirmatory HLA tissue typing and blood typing. Imaging studies and bone marrow tests are performed as indicated.

• Related allogeneic recipients must have HLA-A,B,DR matched sibling or family related donors. Cross-reactive mismatches at a single A or B locus may be acceptable. All matches are confirmed by molecular typing.

• Unrelated allogeneic recipients must also be identical by molecular at 10 DNA loci, especially at the DRB1 locus. The closest molecular match available at all other loci is chosen.  Our program will transplant 9/10 and 10/10 matched unrelated donors.

For new patient appointments, please call 215-214-4191 or 4199.

Contact Information:

Fox Chase-Temple BMT Program

Friends Hall Physicians Building

7604 Central Avenue, Lower Level

Phila., PA 19111-2442

Kenneth F. Mangan, MD, FACP, Director

Appointments:

215-214-4191 or

215-214-4199

Transplant Coordinator:

Chris Miller

MillerCH@tuhs.temple.edu