CORD:USE leaders visit marks a year of successful cord blood banking

Marking a year of successful partnership between Christiana Care and CORD:USE, the country's leading program for banking umbilical cord blood: Richard J. Derman, M.D., MPH, FACOG, Marie E. Pinizzotto, M.D., Endowed Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Kim Petrella, RN; Edward Guindi, M.D., president and C.E.O., CORD:USE; John Wagner, M.D., chief clinical scientific adviser, CORD:USE; Sherry A. Monson, RN, MSN, MBA, vice president of Women’s, Infants and Children’s Health; and Mark Gooss, maternal fetal research assistant.

July 11, 2014

More than 1,000 mothers who have delivered babies have made use of the option to donate umbilical cord blood since Christiana Care partnered with CORD:USE, the world’s leading cord blood banking organization, one year ago. John Wagner, M.D., chief clinical scientific adviser for CORD:USE and the world’s most active cord blood transplanter, and CORD:USE President and CEO Edward Guindi, M.D., visited Christiana Care in July to mark the anniversary. Dr. Wagner met with clinical staff of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology to present a talk, “Umbilical Cord Blood, Revolutionizing the Practice of Transplant Medicine.”