Open house honors bone marrow and stem cell transplant program

James Armitage, M.D.

Medical center employees are invited to attend an open house today from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Durham Outpatient Center West Atrium to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program at UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center.

A program featuring comments from medical center leaders begins at 3 p.m.

During the 25-year history of the bone marrow and stem cell transplant program, more than 4,000 transplants have been performed on patients from around the world. It ranks as one of the busiest adult and pediatric transplant programs in the country. The program, founded by James Armitage, M.D., the Joe Shapiro Professor of Medicine at UNMC, averages about 150 transplants a year.

The program has been recognized internationally for a number of ground-breaking achievements that have helped improve success rates and have made bone marrow and stem cell transplants more viable and promising options for a growing number of patients with malignancies that include primarily lymphomas, leukemias, multiple myeloma, as well as some blood disorders.