FACT Accreditation Renewals (continued)

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

• University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program, San Antonio, Texas.
  Program Director:  Cesar Freytes, MD
  
  
• Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Los Angeles, California.
  Program Director:  Michael Lill, MD

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

• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center & University Medical Center System, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Lubbock, Texas.
  Program Director:  Everado Cobos, MD

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

• Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplant Program, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  Program Director:  Patrick Stagg, MD
  
  
• Scripps Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, La Jolla, California.
  Program Director:  James Mason, MD
  
  
• Providence Portland Medical Center Autologous Stem Cell Transplant Program, Portland, Oregon.
  Program Director:  Stacy Lewis, MD
  
  
• DeKalb Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia.
  Program Director:  Melvin Moore, MD

CORD BLOOD BANK ACCREDITATIONS

Cord blood collection, processing, testing, banking, selection and release:

• StemCyte, Inc., Arcadia, California.
  Program Director:  Lawrence Petz, MD
  
  
• MD Anderson Cord Blood Bank, Houston, Texas.
  Program Director:  Elizabeth J. Shpall, MD

Currently there are 145 accredited blood and marrow transplant facilities, and 89 additional facilities are in various stages of application and inspection.   Eleven cord blood banks have NetCord/FACT accreditation, and 35 additional banks in 14 countries have applied for accreditation.

For a complete list of accredited facilities and additional information about FACT standards and accreditation, visit the FACT Web site.