The Section of Hematology/Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) provides medical treatment for patients with a variety of non-malignant and malignant hematologic disorders as well as patients with other diseases that can be treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The Section runs two inpatient services at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, one devoted to patients with hematologic disorders and the other to patients undergoing HSCT. The Services each averages 8 to 12 patients at any time. TheHematology Service ward team consists of a nurse practitioner, housestaff and medical students. The HSCT Service is staffed primarily by nurse practitioners, but can be chosen as an elective by residents. The Section also has a Consult Service that staffs both University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics and the Middleton VA Hospital and is a resident rotation. Finally, the Section has clinics four days a week at University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics and one day a week at the Middleton VA Hospital. Comprehensive care of patients with hemophilia and associated disorders is provided in collaboration with the Regional Hemophilia Service of the American Red Cross. Staff physicians work closely with colleagues in Hematopathology, Medical Oncology, Radiation Therapy, and Surgery. The HSCT Program is joint with the Department of Pediatrics.

Clinical research within the Section focuses both on treatment of hematologic malignancies, that is, acute leukemia, chronic leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, myeloma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, and novel approaches to HSCT, and on treatment of benign hematologic disorders. The clinics are a tertiary referral center for a wide variety of other disorders of blood coagulation, platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. Laboratory research within the Section focuses on blood coagulation disorders, cell adhesion and migration, protein chemistry, and transfusion medicine.

The Section sponsors a Hematology Fellowship that is supported in part by an institutional training grant from the National Institutes of Health. Training grant support is also available to residents who wish to enter the Fellowship through the Clinical Investigator Pathway. Interested residents may attend the Section's weekly clinical conference and fortnightly journal club, do research electives with Section members, and/or mentor a small group in the fall Hematology course for medical students.