Dr. Craig A Mullen MD
Hematologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
601 Elmwood Ave Box 635 Rochester NY, 14642Rating
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About
Dr. Craig Mullen is a pediatric hematologist practicing in Rochester, NY. Dr. Mullen specializes in treating children that have a blood disease or cancer. Such blood diseases include disorders of red blood cells, white blood cells and/or platelets. The types of cancers that Dr. Mullen treats include leukemias, lymphomas and certain tumors. Dr. Mullen can also treat bleeding disorders in children. Pediatric hematologists can be found in childrens hospitals, community hospitals, university medical centers and more.
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1986
U Of Chgo Div Of Bio Sci Pritzker Sch Of Med 1986
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 1986
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Pediatric Hematology-Oncology- 1992
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fever and neutropenia in children with solid tumors is similar in severity and outcome to that in children with leukemia.
- Down-regulation of antihost alloreactivity after bone marrow transplant permits relapse of hematological malignancy.
- Influence of tumor vaccines on graft versus tumor activity and graft versus host disease in allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
- Suicide gene therapy using E. coli beta-galactosidase.
- Treatment of leukemia relapse with recombinant granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (rhGM-CSF) following unrelated umbilical cord blood transplant: Induction of graft-vs.-leukemia.
- Fludarabine and once-daily intravenous busulfan for allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for Chediak-Higashi syndrome.
- Ciprofloxacin in treatment of fever and neutropenia in pediatric cancer patients.
- Pharmacokinetics and individualized dose adjustment of intravenous busulfan in children with advanced hematologic malignancies undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
- Cellular tumor vaccines administered after T cell-depleted allogeneic bone marrow transplantation induce effective anti-tumor immune responses.
- Medical and non-medical barriers to outpatient treatment of fever and neutropenia in children with cancer.
- Hematopoietic stem cell recipients do not develop post-transplantation immune tolerance to antigens present on minimal residual disease.
- High-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells with bcr-abl and INK4A/ARF mutations retain susceptibility to alloreactive T cells.
- Differential gene expression in acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells surviving allogeneic transplant.
- Evidence of B cell immune responses to acute lymphoblastic leukemia in murine allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients treated with donor lymphocyte infusion and/or vaccination.
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells that survive combination chemotherapy in vivo remain sensitive to allogeneic immune effects.
Treatments
- Anemia
- Leukemia
- Extra Corporeal Shockwave Therapy
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