Children's Wisconsin

Overview

Our goal is to provide comprehensive and compassionate cutting-edge care to anyone needing a transplant. Since 1980, we have performed over 1400 transplants. These include over 750 alternative donor transplants that utilize unrelated donors as well as mismatched/haploidentical family members.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1980 and has been an NMDP transplant center since February 1991.

Attending physicians

Adult - Larisa Broglie, David Margolis, Amy Moskop, Rachel Phelan, Sridhar Rao, Julie Talano
Pediatric - Larisa Broglie, David Margolis, Amy Moskop, Rachel Phelan, Sridhar Rao, Julie Talano

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants

Pediatric only

Other programs and services

School program, Ronald McDonald House, discounted hotel rates, Expressive therapy-Art and Music-in addition to Child Life, Recreational Therapy, Animal Assisted therapy, sibling care program, Family Resource Center.

Patient survival information for this center

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center*.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2020, 2021, 2022 and
Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 61 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 91.8%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 76.9% and 94%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report

at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

* The expected survival rate for a transplant center can be below, similar to, or above the range listed. This is based on comparing patient survival at all centers that treated patients with similar diseases.

The survival rate cannot tell how you will do with your transplant. Talk to your doctor to understand your prognosis or the likely course of your disease.

Total pediatric transplants

57

Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 11	PBSC 13	Cord blood 0	Total 24
Unrelated donor	Marrow 6	PBSC 3	Cord blood 6	Total 15
Total allogeneic	Marrow 17	PBSC 16	Cord blood 6	Total 39
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 18	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 18
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 51	PBSC —	Cord blood 6	Total 57

All Diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2022 to December 31st, 2023(includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

	0-18	19-44	45-64	65+	Total
Related	0-18 19	19-44 5	45-64 0	65+ 0	Total 24
Unrelated	0-18 12	19-44 3	45-64 0	65+ 0	Total 15
Autologous	0-18 17	19-44 1	45-64 0	65+ 0	Total 18
Total	0-18 48	19-44 9	45-64 0	65+ 0	Total 57

Treatments may be similar for diseases within a group. It might be helpful to look at centers that have done transplants for a specific disease and centers that have done transplants for any corresponding broad disease categories.

Centers are not required to report autologous transplants so the numbers might be incomplete.

More information about transplants can be found:

U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
report at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov
List of diseases

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator

Jennifer Koscielak

Phone: (414) 266-7491

Email: jkoscielak@childrenswi.org

Financial representative

Karen Solis

Phone: 414-266-3764

Email: kbartz@childrenswi.org

NMDP patient navigators

Patient navigators can answer your questions about choosing a transplant center and provide support and education to help you throughout your transplant journey.

Inside the United States: 1 (888) 999-6743
Outside the United States: 1 (763) 406-3410. (Long distance or international charges may apply.)

Email: patientinfo@nmdp.org

More resources

Choosing a transplant center
Preparing for transplant
Learn about transplant outcomes and treatment decisions (Opens in a new tab)
Support and resources (including non-English materials)
U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

9000 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Milwaukee, WI 53226

Phone:414-266-2774

For more information about this program: https://chw.org/medical-care/macc-fund-center/programs-and-services/blood-and-marrow-transplant-program

Staff

Program Director:Rachel Phelan, MD

Program Coordinator:Julie Nichols, RN, BSN

Medical Specialties in Program

Cardiology, endocrinology, hematology, oncology, palliative care, psychiatry/psychology.

Medical Services Offered

Chronic GVHD management, fertility counseling, reproductive health, financial counseling, nutrition/dietetics, pain management, physical therapy and rehabilitation, sexual health, social services, vaccinations.

Telemedicine services are available.

Patient Eligibility

Children

Allogeneic and Autologous transplant recipients
2 years after transplant.
Patients who were transplanted as a child at this center with no upper age limit
Does accept patients who were transplanted at another hospital
- Will admit pediatric patients who transferred into the program if they are under age 25
- Will accept adult patients who were transplanted as a child at another center up to age 25