VA Puget Sound Health Care System

Overview

The VA Puget Sound provides transplant and follow-up treatment to Veterans who have served in the US Armed Forces and were honorably discharged. Patients must be referred by a physician working with the Veterans Health Administration. For a listing of centers, go to the VHA Web site: www.va.gov..

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1982 and has been an NMDP transplant center since October 1988.

Attending physicians

Adult - Nicholas Burwick, Thomas Chauncey, Solomon Graf, Robert Richard, Molly Tokaz, Daniel Wu

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants

Adult only

This center's data is not sufficient to develop survival estimates for 2024.

If you have questions, contact Be The Match Patient Support Center at 1 (888) 999-6743 or patientinfo@nmdp.org.

Total adult transplants

8

Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 0	PBSC 5	Cord blood 0	Total 5
Unrelated donor	Marrow 0	PBSC 3	Cord blood 0	Total 3
Total allogeneic	Marrow 0	PBSC 8	Cord blood 0	Total 8
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 0	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 0
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 8	PBSC —	Cord blood 0	Total 8

All Diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2022 to December 31st, 2023(includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

	0-18	19-44	45-64	65+	Total
Related	0-18 0	19-44 1	45-64 0	65+ 4	Total 5
Unrelated	0-18 0	19-44 0	45-64 2	65+ 1	Total 3
Autologous	0-18 0	19-44 0	45-64 0	65+ 0	Total 0
Total	0-18 0	19-44 1	45-64 2	65+ 5	Total 8

Treatments may be similar for diseases within a group. It might be helpful to look at centers that have done transplants for a specific disease and centers that have done transplants for any corresponding broad disease categories.

Centers are not required to report autologous transplants so the numbers might be incomplete.

More information about transplants can be found:

U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
report at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov
List of diseases

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator

Stephanie Magone

Phone: (206) 764-2182

Email: stephanie.magone@va.gov

Financial representative

Seam Sem

Phone: 206-277-6615

Email: seam.sem@va.gov

NMDP patient navigators

Patient navigators can answer your questions about choosing a transplant center and provide support and education to help you throughout your transplant journey.

Inside the United States: 1 (888) 999-6743
Outside the United States: 1 (763) 406-3410. (Long distance or international charges may apply.)

Email: patientinfo@nmdp.org

More resources

Choosing a transplant center
Preparing for transplant
Learn about transplant outcomes and treatment decisions (Opens in a new tab)
Support and resources (including non-English materials)
U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov

Marrow Transplant Unit (111)

1660 South Columbian Way

Seattle, WA 98108

Phone:206-764-2199

Physician Referrals:206-764-2139

For more information about this program: https://www.pugetsound.va.gov/marrowtransplant/Welcome.asp

Staff

Program Director:Thomas R. Chauncey, MD, PhD

Program Coordinator:Lisa Fox, RN

Medical Specialties in Program

Dentistry, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, general surgery, hematology, hepatology, infectious disease, nephrology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology/optometry, orthopedics, otolaryngology, palliative care, psychiatry/psychology, pulmonology, rheumatology, urology.

Medical Services Offered

Chronic GVHD management, nutrition/dietetics, pain management, physical therapy and rehabilitation, social services, vaccinations.

Telemedicine services are available.

Patient Eligibility

Adults

Allogeneic and Autologous transplant recipients
Adults (over age 18)
- Will provide care to adult patients who underwent transplant as a child
Does accept patients who were transplanted at another hospital