Comprehensive Care from Beginning to Recovery
Our highly qualified team is both multicultural and multidisciplinary. This allows special sensitivity to the individual needs of all our patients from initial referral and evaluation, through transplantation and recovery, to follow-up visits and the healthy return to the referring physician's care. Our team will make sure that all the changes and transitions experienced are as easy and simple as possible. We are here to help educate and support our patients to help them become and remain well.
Transplant Team
Transplant Physician
Hisham Abdel-Azim, MD
Nurse Practitioner
Walter Sosa
Nurse Clinicians
Melissa Guarneri
Nurse Coordinators
Heather Cox
Financial Coordinator
Mary Grace Cruz
Nurse Research Coordinators
Nicolle Glover
Pharmacist
Erika Wass
Social Workers
Case Manager
Lori Estrada
Manager
Beverly Joy
Did You Know?
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) program is accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) for its' highest quality patient care and lab performance.
Supportive Team
Nursing Leadership
Elizabeth Rankin
Scarlett Czarnecki
Sherry Nolfe
Nurse Managers
Jennifer Pedersen
Sonia Dickerson
Quality Improvement & Education
Elizabeth Rankin
Michelle Apostol
Rachael Walker
Dietician
Anna Salisbury
Pam Yong
Palliative Care
Gina Mohr, MD
Mitsuhiko Tsukimoto, MD
Physical Therapist
Cassandra Borba
Krista Wendt
Neuro-Psychological Services
Jamie Pivonka-Jones, PhD
Kiti Freier
Veronica Regueiro
Sharis Rostamian