FACT Announces New Accreditations;
Accredited Facilities Now Total 145

Seven blood and marrow transplant facilities achieved accreditation and 18 others earned accreditation renewals during the first half of this year, according to the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT).

In addition, two cord blood banks were granted FACT/NetCord accreditation.

FACT is a non-profit voluntary foundation for standard-setting, self-assessment, inspection and accreditation in all phases of hematopoietic collection, processing and transplantation.  It is jointly sponsored by ASBMT and the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT).

The accreditation actions were:

NEW ACCREDITATIONS

Allogeneic and autologous marrow and peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation, including collection and laboratory processing:

• Henry Ford Hospital Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Detroit, Michigan.
  Program Director:  Nalini Janakiraman, MD
  
  
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Stem Cell Transplant Program, Memphis, Tennessee.
  Program Director:  Gregory Hale, MD
  
  
• Jewish Hospital Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  Program Director:  Randolph Broun, MD
  
  
• Alberta Bone Marrow and Blood Cell Transplant Program:  Foothills Medical Centre and Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 
  Program Director:  James Russell, MB, FRCP

Autologous marrow and peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation, including collection and laboratory processing:

• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
  Program Director:  Kenneth Meehan, MD

Autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation, including collection and laboratory processing:

• Transplant Center of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota.
  Program Director:   John Schwerkoske, MD

Autologous peripheral blood collection and  laboratory processing:

• Canadian Blood Services, Edmonton Stem Cell Collection and Processing, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  Program Director:  Loree Larratt, MD

ACCREDITATION RENEWALS

Allogeneic and autologous marrow and peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation, including collection and laboratory processing:

• University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  Program Director:  Daniel Weisdorf, MD
  
  
• University of Louisville Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Louisville, Kentucky.
  Program Director:  Roger Herzig, MD
  
  
• Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  Program Director:  Stella Davies, MBBS, PhD, MRCP
  
  
• Mount Sinai Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Program, New York, New York.
  Program Director:  Luis Isola, MD
  
  
• UCSD/Sharp HealthCare Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, LLC, La Jolla, California.
  Program Director:  Edward Ball, MD
  
  
• Karmanos Cancer Center Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Program, Detroit, Michigan.
  Program Director:  Joseph Uberti, MD, PhD
  
  
• Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Saint Louis, Missouri.
  Program Director:  Steven Pincus, MD, PhD
  
  
• Loyola University Medical Center Stem Cell Transplant Program, Maywood, Illinois.
  Program Director:  Jared Klein, MD
  
  
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital at Washington University School of Medicine Stem Cell Transplant Program, St. Louis, Missouri.
  Program Director:  John DiPersio, MD, PhD
  
  
• Kansas City Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Kansas City, Missouri.
  Program Director:  Joseph McGuirk, MD
  
  
• Children's Memorial Hospital Stem Cell Transplant Program Division of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Chicago, Illinois.
  Program Director:  Reggie Duerst, MD

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