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
Quan Zhao, 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