Patients' Lived Experiences During the Transplant and Cellular Therapy Journey (PDF)

Jean Coffey PhD, APRN, CPNP, FAAN is entering her 46th year of nursing practice. Over the span of her career, she has provided care at the bedside, in homes and school settings. She has been the nursing director of two children's hospitals, director of maternal child health in a large home care agency and director of nursing research and education in an academic medical center. More recently she has practiced as a pediatric nurse practitioner in primary care. As a full clinical professor, she teaches pre-licensure and graduate nursing students. Her publications include a recent book chapter in a primary care text and a meta synthesis on caring for children with chronic illness that has been cited across the globe.
John M. Hill, Jr., MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Director of the Allogeneic Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program in the Dartmouth Cancer Center at Dartmouth Health. Dr. Hill received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his MD from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland and Hematology/Oncology Fellowship training in the National Cancer Institute (NCI)/Navy combined program, with clinical training in Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. His primary area of interest is the use of cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies and in novel approaches toward minimizing morbidity and mortality and optimizing functional status following this therapy.
Thomas Lawrence Long, PhD, a medical humanities and health studies scholar, is curator of the Josephine A. Dolan Nursing History Collection at the University of Connecticut's School of Nursing. He is the author of AIDS and American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics of an Epidemic (SUNY Press), co-author of Writing in