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Lloyd E. Damon, M.D.

Director of Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant

Dr. Lloyd Damon is director of the adult Blood and Marrow Transplant and Hematologic Malignancies Program and chief of the UCSF Hematology Clinic. He is a hematologist, cancer specialist or oncologist, and researcher who specializes in cancers of the blood such as lymphomas and leukemias. In his research, he studies new treatments for acute myeloid and acute lymphoblastic leukemias. In 1995, he was one of the early investigators in the first monoclonal antibody, called rituximab, approved to treat human cancer, specifically lymphoma. In 1998, he developed a high-dose regimen involving autologous stem cell transplants for mantle cell lymphoma. He also discovered the risk factors for an uncommon brain side effect of an important leukemia drug, cytarabine, and developed a dose modification algorithm that reduced this side effect to extremely low levels.

Damon earned a medical degree at the University of Michigan. He completed an internal medicine residency and hematology-oncology fellowship at UCSF, where he joined the faculty in 1988. He is a professor of clinical medicine and deputy chief of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology at UCSF.

Clinics

Hematology and Blood and Marrow Transplant
400 Parnassus Ave.,
Suite A-502
San Francisco, CA 94143
Existing Patients: (415) 353-2421
New Patients: (415) 353-2051

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m

Conditions & Treatments

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Education

University of Michigan 1982

Residencies

UCSF, Internal Medicine 1985

Fellowships

UCSF, Hematology/Oncology 1988

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Baikaidi M, Chung SS, Tallman MS, Damon LE, Walker AR, Marcucci G, Sholi AM, Morris GJ. A 75-Year-Old Woman With Thoracic Spinal Cord Compression and Chloroma (granulocytic sarcoma). Semin Oncol. 2012 Dec; 39(6):e37-46.
  2. Rubenstein JL, Li J, Chen L, Advani R, Drappatz J, Gerstner E, Batchelor T, Krouwer H, Hwang J, Auerback G, Kadoch C, Lowell C, Munster P, Cha S, Shuman MA, Damon LE. Multicenter phase 1 trial of intraventricular immunochemotherapy in recurrent CNS lymphoma. Blood. 2013 Jan 31; 121(5):745-51.
  3. O'Brien S, Schiller G, Lister J, Damon L, Goldberg S, Aulitzky W, Ben-Yehuda D, Stock W, Coutre S, Douer D, Heffner LT, Larson M, Seiter K, Smith S, Assouline S, Kuriakose P, Maness L, Nagler A, Rowe J, Schaich M, Shpilberg O, Yee K, Schmieder G, Silverman JA, Thomas D, Deitcher SR, Kantarjian H. High-dose vincristine sulfate liposome injection for advanced, relapsed, and refractory adult Philadelphia chromosome-negative acute lymphoblastic leukemia. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Feb 20; 31(6):676-83.
  4. Greenberg PL, Garcia-Manero G, Moore M, Damon L, Roboz G, Hu K, Yang AS, Franklin J. A randomized controlled trial of romiplostim in patients with low- or intermediate-risk myelodysplastic syndrome receiving decitabine. Leuk Lymphoma. 2013 Feb; 54(2):321-8.
  5. O'Donnell MR, Abboud CN, Altman J, Appelbaum FR, Arber DA, Attar E, Borate U, Coutre SE, Damon LE, Goorha S, Lancet J, Maness LJ, Marcucci G, Millenson MM, Moore JO, Ravandi F, Shami PJ, Smith BD, Stone RM, Strickland SA, Tallman MS, Wang ES, Naganuma M, Gregory KM. Acute myeloid leukemia. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2012 Aug; 10(8):984-1021.
  6. Alvarnas JC, Brown PA, Aoun P, Ballen KK, Bellam N, Blum W, Boyer MW, Carraway HE, Coccia PF, Coutre SE, Cultrera J, Damon LE, DeAngelo DJ, Douer D, Frangoul H, Frankfurt O, Goorha S, Millenson MM, O'Brien S, Petersdorf SH, Rao AV, Terezakis S, Uy G, Wetzler M, Zelenetz AD, Naganuma M, Gregory KM. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2012 Jul 1; 10(7):858-914.
  7. Porzig A, Matthay KK, Dubois S, Pampaloni M, Damon L, Hawkins R, Goldsby R, Hollinger F, Fitzgerald P. Proteinuria in metastatic pheochromocytoma is associated with an increased risk of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, spontaneously or after therapy with 131I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (131I-MIBG). Horm Metab Res. 2012 Jun; 44(7):539-42.
  8. Van Loon K, Gill RM, McMahon P, Chigurupati R, Siddiqi I, Fox L, Damon L, McCalmont TH, Jordan R, Wolf J. 20q- clonality in a case of oral sweet syndrome and myelodysplasia. Am J Clin Pathol. 2012 Feb; 137(2):310-5.
  9. Wieduwilt MJ, Valles F, Issa S, Behler CM, Hwang J, McDermott M, Treseler P, O'Brien J, Shuman MA, Cha S, Damon LE, Rubenstein JL. Immunochemotherapy with intensive consolidation for primary CNS lymphoma: a pilot study and prognostic assessment by diffusion-weighted MRI. Clin Cancer Res. 2012 Feb 15; 18(4):1146-55.
  10. Naidus E, Damon L, Schwartz BS, Breed C, Liu C. Experience with use of Zostavax(®) in patients with hematologic malignancy and hematopoietic cell transplant recipients. Am J Hematol. 2012 Jan; 87(1):123-5.
  11. Stock W, Douer D, DeAngelo DJ, Arellano M, Advani A, Damon L, Kovacsovics T, Litzow M, Rytting M, Borthakur G, Bleyer A. Prevention and management of asparaginase/pegasparaginase-associated toxicities in adults and older adolescents: recommendations of an expert panel. Leuk Lymphoma. 2011 Dec; 52(12):2237-53.
  12. O'Donnell MR, Abboud CN, Altman J, Appelbaum FR, Coutre SE, Damon LE, Foran JM, Goorha S, Maness LJ, Marcucci G, Maslak P, Millenson MM, Moore JO, Ravandi F, Shami PJ, Smith BD, Stone RM, Strickland SA, Tallman MS, Wang ES. Acute myeloid leukemia. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2011 Mar; 9(3):280-317.
  13. Liu C, Schwartz BS, Vallabhaneni S, Nixon M, Chin-Hong PV, Miller SA, Chiu C, Damon L, Drew WL. Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection in patients with hematologic malignancy. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Dec; 16(12):1910-7.
  14. Linker C, Damon L, Martin T, Blume K, Forman S, Snyder D, Wolf J, Negrin R. Autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation for high-risk ALL. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2011 Mar; 46(3):460-1.
  15. Damon LE, Damon LE. Mobilization of hematopoietic stem cells into the peripheral blood. Expert Rev Hematol. 2009 Dec; 2(6):717-33.
  16. Mawad R, Hsieh A, Damon L. Graft-versus-host disease presenting with pancytopenia after en bloc multiorgan transplantation: case report and literature review. Transplant Proc. 2009 Dec; 41(10):4431-3.
  17. Damon LE, Johnson JL, Niedzwiecki D, Cheson BD, Hurd DD, Bartlett NL, Lacasce AS, Blum KA, Byrd JC, Kelly M, Stock W, Linker CA, Canellos GP. Immunochemotherapy and autologous stem-cell transplantation for untreated patients with mantle-cell lymphoma: CALGB 59909. J Clin Oncol. 2009 Dec 20; 27(36):6101-8.
  18. Martin T, Sharma M, Damon L, Kaplan L, Guglielmo BJ, Working M, O'Malley R, Hwang J, Linker C. Voriconazole is safe and effective as prophylaxis for early and late fungal infections following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Transpl Infect Dis. 2010 Feb; 12(1):45-50.
  19. Gonias S, Goldsby R, Matthay KK, Hawkins R, Price D, Huberty J, Damon L, Linker C, Sznewajs A, Shiboski S, Fitzgerald P. Phase II study of high-dose [131I]metaiodobenzylguanidine therapy for patients with metastatic pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma. J Clin Oncol. 2009 Sep 1; 27(25):4162-8.
  20. Behler CM, Terrault NA, Etzell JE, Damon LE. Rituximab therapy for pure red cell aplasia due to anti-epoetin antibodies in a woman treated with epoetin-alfa: a case report. J Med Case Rep. 2009; 3:7335.

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