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UF Health Shands Hospital

Location

UF Health Shands Hospital
Bone Marrow Transplant Program
1600 Southwest Archer Road
Box 100403
Gainesville, FL 32610-0403
Direct phone: (352) 733-0972
Toll-free: (800) 749-7424

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 15
  • PBSC: 69
  • Cord Blood: 0
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 100
Performs adult; pediatric transplants

Overview

More than 3,500 allogeneic, autologous and unrelated transplants have been performed at the Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Shands at the University of Florida, established in 1981. Our multidisciplinary team works together to evaluate each patient and determine the best course of treatment. This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1981 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 1988.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1981 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 1988.

Attending physicians

Adult - Zeina Al-Mansour M.D., Erin Dean, John Hiemenz, Jack Hsu

Pediatric - Paul Castilli Caro, John Fort, Jordan Milner, William Slayton

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Hotel Eleo- Offers discounted rates for patients
Ronald McDonald-Based on availability for pediatrics.

About the center

Overview

More than 3,500 allogeneic, autologous and unrelated transplants have been performed at the Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Shands at the University of Florida, established in 1981. Our multidisciplinary team works together to evaluate each patient and determine the best course of treatment. This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1981 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 1988.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1981 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since October 1988.

Attending physicians

Adult - Zeina Al-Mansour M.D., Erin Dean, John Hiemenz, Jack Hsu

Pediatric - Paul Castilli Caro, John Fort, Jordan Milner, William Slayton

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Hotel Eleo- Offers discounted rates for patients
Ronald McDonald-Based on availability for pediatrics.

Overall center survival


Patient survival information for this center

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2019, 2020, 2021, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 102 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 73.5%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 69.7% and 85.0%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

Number of adult transplants

Total adult transplants


147

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 4 17 0 21
Unrelated donor 1 34 0 35
Total allogeneic 5 51 0 56
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
91
-- 91
Total combined
147 0 147

Number of pediatric transplants

Total pediatric transplants


37

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 6 11 0 17
Unrelated donor 4 7 0 11
Total allogeneic 10 18 0 28
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
9
-- 9
Total combined
37 0 37

Transplants by disease

All diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total
Related 17 10 9 2 38
Unrelated 11 16 13 6 46
Autologous 9 21 36 34 100
Total 37 47 58 42 184

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 for this disease can be found:

Additional information

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator:
Nicole Santerfeit
(352) 265-0111 (ext 29460)
Email: santen@shands.ufl.edu

If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center's direct phone number.

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

Survivorship program

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