University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital

Overview

The University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit is a seven-bed unit located at Holtz Children's Hospital, part of UM/JMH. Outpatient care is provided at UM's Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. A multidisciplinary approach is utilized to meet the special needs of patients.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1994 and has been an NMDP transplant center since July 2007.

Attending physicians

Adult - Warren Alperstein, Julio Barredo, David Crawford, Edward Ziga
Pediatric - Warren Alperstein, Julio Barredo, David Crawford, Edward Ziga

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants

Pediatric only

Other programs and services

Access to phase 1 protocols; Cellular therapy including CAR-T cell therapy; Homebound school program; Availability to the Ronald McDonald House which is located on campus. Hotel located near campus with discounted rates.

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:

Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2020, 2021, 2022 and
Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 33 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 84.8%.

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 77.6% and 98.5%.

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.

* The expected survival rate for a transplant center can be below, similar to, or above the range listed. This is based on comparing patient survival at all centers that treated patients with similar diseases.

The survival rate cannot tell how you will do with your transplant. Talk to your doctor to understand your prognosis or the likely course of your disease.

Total pediatric transplants

40

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

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 9	PBSC 11	Cord blood 0	Total 20
Unrelated donor	Marrow 3	PBSC 6	Cord blood 0	Total 9
Total allogeneic	Marrow 12	PBSC 17	Cord blood 0	Total 29
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 11	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 11
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 40	PBSC —	Cord blood 0	Total 40

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 19	19-44 1	45-64 0	65+ 0	Total 20
Unrelated	0-18 8	19-44 1	45-64 0	65+ 0	Total 9
Autologous	0-18 11	19-44 0	45-64 0	65+ 0	Total 11
Total	0-18 38	19-44 2	45-64 0	65+ 0	Total 40

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

Michelle Mendez

Phone: 305-585-7359

Email: mmendez4@jhsmiami.org

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

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

No survivorship program information is available. Contact the center for information about post-transplant care.