BMT Program Information

Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
UAB Hospital

The Bone Marrow Transplantation Program at UAB provides the entire range of blood and bone marrow transplant options for patients from Alabama and surrounding states. These include self donor, matched and partially matched family member donor, unrelated donor, and umbilical cord blood transplants for malignant and non-malignant diseases of bone marrow and some other malignancies.

The award winning "single staff model" for care developed by the UAB program provides for 24 hr per day, 7 day per week care for all of the inpatient and outpatient needs of BMT patients using a single team of expert nurses, Physicians, Pharmacists and a full time social worker. The UAB program has provided National leadership innovation in collection of stem cells for transplantation from the blood instead of the marrow, making donation easier, and is currently developing strategies for precision individualized dosing for pre-transplant chemotherapy to decrease the risk of the transplant to the recipient. The program has performed over 1,000 transplants since start up in 1991 with a care site for children at Children's Hospital and a care site for adults at University Hospital. UAB performs bone marrow transplants using stem cells collected from the bone marrow or peripheral blood using the patient as his or her own donor (autologous transplant) or someone else as the donor (allogeneic transplant).

Allogeneic donors can be tissue type-matched siblings, matched unrelated donors, partially matched family members, or banked u

Allogeneic donors can be tissue type-matched siblings, matched unrelated donors, partially matched family members, or banked umbilical cord blood. UAB performs all of these types of bone marrow transplants for both adults and children.

The University of Alabama Bone Marrow Transplantation Program is full accredited by the National Marrow Donor Program.

MISSION STATEMENTS:

UAB Bone Marrow Transplantation Program
The goal of the UAB Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) Program is to be recognized as the North American value leader in the provision of High Dose Therapy (HDT)/BMT services by our patients, third party payors, referring practices, parent institution and the HDT/BMT provider community.

Our patients and families require honest compassionate advice and uncompromisingly expert care to be assured that they will have the highest probability of the best possible outcome of therapy with the lowest possible risk of discomfort, disability, or death in accordance with their informed decisions.

UAB Hospital
Mission: UAB Hospital is committed to providing a continuum of health services of the highest quality. The resources of the hospital and expertise of the staff are expected to set a national standard for health care delivery. These commitments recognize our primary responsibility to the citizens of Alabama and support the overall mission of The University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The UAB Department of Medicine is committed to providing:
Outstanding clinical service to its patients and to the community, Exceptional medical education for medical students, residents, and other health professionals, and, Innovative research to expand the frontiers of biomedical knowledge and clinical practice. To attain this, the Department promotes life-long learning among faculty, staff, and students and integration of our missions so that each supports and, in turn, benefits from the others.

UAB Health System
Mission: To improve the health and well being of society, particularly the citizens of Alabama, by providing innovative health services of exceptional value, a superior environment for education of health professionals, and support for research that advances medical science.