We Stand For Care

On July 25, 2009, several hundred former transplant patients and their families reunited with the staff of the Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program at Stanford Hospital & Clinics for a re-birthday celebration. The BMT team often refers to a patient’s transplant day as their “new-birth” or “re-birth” day, since receiving a transplant grants patients a second chance at life. The celebration and annual reunion also recognizes how we MAKE A DIFFERENCE and are continuously IMPROVING the BMT Program.

Robert Negrin, MD, Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at Stanford, emphasizes that “this day punctuates the continued need for enhancing the pool of unrelated marrow donors who can offer the gift of hope for still many more patients in need.”

Over the last 21 years the BMT Program has taken a unique collaborative approach to treatment, where staff nurses, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, physicians, dietitians, social workers and pharmacists all participate together in each patient’s plan of care.

Negrin added that the “annual BMT Reunion is the highlight of our year, illuminating many successes of the program and strengthening our COMMITTMENT to the work that remains to be done on behalf of our patients.”

For more information about the BMT Reunion and patients re-birth, click here.