A Tour of Your Circulatory System (First Graphics: Body Systems) by Karen Ballen

A Tour of Your Circulatory System (First Graphics: Body Systems) by Karen Ballen

In graphic novel format, follow Ruby the red blood cell as she travels through and explains the workings of the human circulatory system.

Dr. Karen Ballen received her MD at Dartmouth College and then completed an Internal Medicine internship and residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, and a Hematology/Oncology fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. She has held several attending physician appointments including Transplant Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital, Boston; Director, Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, UMass Memorial Health Care; and Acting Division Director, Medical Oncology, UMass Memorial Health Care. Dr. Ballen is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and director of the leukemia program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research interests focus on novel therapies for leukemia and transplantation. A particular area of specialty is cord blood transplantation for those patients who do not have matched related or unrelated donors. Dr. Ballen's research has focused on improving outcomes after cord blood transplantation, and she has led multiple clinical trials focusing on double cord blood transplantation in adults, cord blood homing strategies, graft vs. host disease prophylaxis and infection prophylaxis. She has authored more than 100 papers in this field.

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ISBN 13	9781429693226
ISBN 10	1429693223
Title	A Tour of Your Circulatory System (First Graphics: Body Systems)
Author	Karen Ballen
Series	First Graphics: Body Systems Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Capstone Press
Year published	2012-07-01
Number of pages	24
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.