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UT Southwestern Medical Center

Background data

Program Type : Adult Program
FACT Approved: Yes
Year CAR T-cell Therapy Program Opened:

Location Info

UT Southwestern Medical Center
6202 Harry Hines Blvd
Dallas, Texas, 75235
Phone Number : (214) 645-4673
Website : https://utswmed.org/conditions-treatments/bone-marrow-transplant/

CAR T-cell therapies performed

Numbers displayed are the most recent data provided by this center.
Year 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Number performed 29 50 46 108 70

Program Director

Name Phone
Robert Collins, MD (214) 645-4673

Medical Director

Name Phone
Robert Collins, MD (214) 645-4673

Physician

Name Phone
Aimaz Afrough, MD (214) 645-4673
Samer Al Hadidi, MD (214) 645-4673
Julio Alvarenga Thiebaud, MD (214) 645-4673
Larry Anderson, MD, PhD (214) 645-4673
Shukaib Arslan, MD (214) 645-4673
Farrukh Awan, MD (214) 645-4673
Stephen Chung, MD (214) 645-6449
Robert Collins, MD (214) 645-4673
Vivian Irizarry Gatell, MD (214) 648-3111
Clayton Jackson, MD (214) 648-3111
Adeel Kahn, MD (214) 648-5907
Yazan Madanat, MD (214) 645-4673
Alejandro Marinos Velarde, MD (214) 645-4673
Praveen Ramakrishnan Geethakumari, MD (214) 645-4673
John Sweetenham, MD (214) 645-4673
Sean Taasan, MD (214) 645-5970
Amir Toor, MD (214) 645-4673
Heather Wolfe, MD (214) 645-4673
Elif Yilmaz, MD (214) 645-4673

Coordinator

Name Phone
Christen Bennett, RN, BSN, OCN, BMTCN (214) 645-4673
Kate Dee, RN, BSN, OCN (214) 645-4673
Ariel Lopez, RN, BSN, OCN (214) 645-4673
Alicia Michaelsen, RN, BSN, BMTCN (214) 645-3373
Allison Mohler, RN, BSN, OCN (214) 645-3375
Rachel Peace, RN, BSN, OCN (214) 645-4673
Brendy Scoggins, RN, BSN, OCN, BMTCN (214) 645-4673
Olivia Vu, RN, BSN, BMTCN (214) 645-4673
Leigh Wernet, RN, BSN, OCN (214) 645-3380
Kathryn Wilde, RN, BSN, BMTCN (214) 645-4673

Social Worker

Name Phone
Sherri Lawson, LCSW (214) 645-4673

Diseases treated by CAR T-cell therapy

  • Leukemia, acute lymphoblastic
  • Lymphoma
  • Mantle Cell Lymphoma

CAR T-Cell products

  • Abecma (idecabtagene vicleucil, ide-cel)
  • Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel, liso-cel)
  • Carvykti (ciltacabtagene autoleucel, cita-cel)
  • Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel, tisa-cel)
  • Tecartus (brexucabtagene autoleucel, brexu-cel)
  • Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel, axi-cel)