Bone Marrow Transplant Tour

A Pioneer in BMT

Patients may be seen and treated by Dr. Morton J.Cowan (right), chief of the UCSF Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program and Marisa Quinn, our inpatient nurse coordinator. Quinn is one of two nurse coordinators on the team who assists patients and families through the challenges of a transplant and acts as an educator, patient advocate and case manager.

Cowan is a pioneer in bone marrow stem cell transplantation; he performed the first BMT at UCSF for a child with severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) in 1982, the first T-cell depleted transplant on the West Coast for a child with leukemia in 1985 and most recently, the first pure blood stem cell transplant from a parent to a child with SCID in North America. He is recognized throughout the world for his innovative research in immunodeficiency diseases, the use of alternative donors and in utero stem cell transplant.

Reviewed by health care specialists at UCSF Children's Hospital.
Last updated October 4, 2007