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I have experience with both facilities. I elected to have my BMT at Johns Hopkins because they had more experience as well as a clinical trial I wanted to participate in. However, I was told at my initial consult at Hopkins that if I had a transplant elsewhere I could not get follow-up care at Johns Hopkins because they were too busy with their own transplant patients.

I was under the care of Dr. Ivana Gojo at University of Maryland for nine months prior to my transplant and highly recommend her and her nurse practitioner, Michael Tidwell. I also was tended to as an inpatient by Dr. Maria Baer, head of the hematologic malignancies department. Although I saw her only once, I was pleased with the encounter. (I was only in the hospital for two days.)

Please feel free to contact me privately if I can be of assistance.

Karen