Overview
Dr. Chellapandian is the division chief of blood and marrow transplant and specializes in bone marrow transplant as a hematologist-oncologist and serves as Director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy for Non-Malignant Conditions (CCGNC) in the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute. He joined the hospital staff in 2017. Dr. Chellapandian earned his medical degree from Madurai Medical College and then trained at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, both in India. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. Dr. Chellapandian completed a pediatric hematology-oncology and bone marrow transplantation fellowship at Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto and an advanced fellowship on bone marrow transplantation and cellular therapy at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Chellapandian's clinical and research interests include hematopoietic stem cell transplant for primary immunodeficiency, immune dysregulation disorders, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, and treatment of histiocytic disorders. He has special focus on ex-vivo graft engineering techniques and autologous gene therapy. He has adapted new methods of T- cell depletion using haploidentical transplantation to transplant patients lacking a suitable matched donor. He has numerous scientific papers and review articles published in this field.
Dr. Chellapandian is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Histiocytosis. His top areas of expertise are Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), Non-Langerhans-Cell Histiocytosis, Infantile Neutropenia, Reticulohistiocytoma, and Bone Marrow Transplant.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 10 peer reviewed articles and participating in 2 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 1 article in the study of Histiocytosis.
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Locations
601 5th Street South, Suite 320, Suite 320, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Chellapandian has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
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Don Eslin is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Eslin is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Histiocytosis. His top areas of expertise are Embryonal Tumor with Multilayered Rosettes, Neuroblastoma, Medulloblastoma, Glioma, and Bone Marrow Aspiration.
Dana Obzut is a Pediatric Hematologist Oncology provider in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Obzut is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Histiocytosis. Her top areas of expertise are Reticulohistiocytoma, Histiocytosis, Hepatoblastoma, Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis, and Bone Marrow Aspiration.
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
Dr. Stapleton is the division chief of oncology and director of pediatric neuro-oncology at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. Dr. Stapleton joined the hospital in 2007. She has formal training in pediatric neuro-oncology. She received the Armstrong Award for Quality and Patient Safety for Johns Hopkins All Children's in the 2024 Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards. Dr. Stapleton is on the Pediatric Palliative Care Team at Johns Hopkins All Children’s, and she specializes in symptom control and end of life care. She has been awarded numerous grants for phase I studies for patients with brain and spinal cord tumors as well as clinical research in pediatric palliative care. Dr. Stapleton’s research experience includes investigator-initiated and multi-center research projects. Dr. Stapleton is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of South Florida and an assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Stapleton completed her medical training at St. Louis University School of Medicine, residency training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and fellowship training at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Stapleton also served 13 years in the United States Air Force. Dr. Stapleton is a member of the American Board of Pediatrics, the Children’s Oncology Group, the Society of Neuro-Oncology, American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, and America Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr. Stapleton is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Histiocytosis. Her top areas of expertise are Medulloblastoma, Embryonal Tumor with Multilayered Rosettes, Glioma, Histiocytosis, and Bone Marrow Aspiration.
Areas of Expertise
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- Bone Marrow TransplantDr. Chellapandian isExperienced. Learn about Bone Marrow Transplant.
- Chronic Granulomatous DiseaseDr. Chellapandian isExperienced. Learn about Chronic Granulomatous Disease.
- HistiocytosisDr. Chellapandian isExperienced. Learn about Histiocytosis.
- Infantile NeutropeniaDr. Chellapandian isExperienced. Learn about Infantile Neutropenia.
- Non-Langerhans-Cell HistiocytosisDr. Chellapandian isExperienced. Learn about Non-Langerhans-Cell Histiocytosis.
- ReticulohistiocytomaDr. Chellapandian isExperienced. Learn about Reticulohistiocytoma.