Blood and Marrow Transplant Care Team

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Our team approach helps to ensure the most comprehensive, quality care for patients. In weekly multidisciplinary meetings, we carefully plan each patient’s treatment and how to best meet his or her particular needs.

BMT Care Team

Our nursing staff consists of more than 60 registered nurses, many of whom are oncology-certified and specifically trained in critical care. Nurse clinicians, certified nurse practitioners, research nurses, pharmacists, social workers, clinical psychologists, physical therapists, dietitians and chaplains are all part of our experienced team.

To help patients feel comfortable with our staff, we assign them a nurse clinician for their entire inpatient stay, and another for their outpatient follow-up.

Nurse clinicians provide continuity of care for the patient, family and our physicians. They are part of each patient's pre-admission testing and teaching process, and coordinate all details of a patient's transplant. Each morning, they evaluate their patients' laboratory work and their status, and report to the attending physician. In addition, nurse clinicians serve as the family's resource for medical, emotional and practical life issues.

BMT Physicians

Our medical director and associate directors bring more than 80 years of combined successful, leading-edge transplant experience to patients.

E. Randolph Broun, M.D.  

E. Randolph Broun, M.D., has been the Medical Director of The Jewish Hospital Blood and Marrow Transplant Program since 1997. He is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology. Before coming to Cincinnati, Dr. Broun served as Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at St. Louis University Health Sciences Center and medical director of the Indiana University/Indiana Regional Cancer Center Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit at Community Hospital, Indianapolis. He was also Medical Director of the Indiana University Hematology/Oncology Unit.
 

James Essell, M.D.

James Essell, M.D., has been an Associate Medical Director of The Jewish Hospital Blood and Marrow Transplant Program since 1994. He is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology. Dr. Essell has also served as an Associate Medical Director for Hospice of The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati and hematologist/medical oncologist and Director of Clinical Research at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in Texas.

 

Duane Sigmund, M.D.

Duane Sigmund, M.D., has been an Associate Medical Director of The Jewish Hospital Blood and Marrow Transplant Program since 1996. He is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology. Dr. Sigmund has also served as Director of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Program at University Hospital in Cincinnati.