About
Dr. Patricia J Giardina is a pediatric hematologist and oncologist based in New York, board certified in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Pediatrics. She practices at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where she serves as Attending Pediatrician and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Giardina directs the Hemoglobinopathy Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical College, which has provided comprehensive care and psychosocial services with genetic counseling to over one hundred patients and their families per year since 1978.
Her work has shaped the understanding and management of thalassemia; she pioneered prenatal DNA diagnosis, organized the first bone marrow transplant for thalassemia in New York in 1983, and conducted the first in-utero bone marrow transplant in 1995. She has led clinical research trials investigating new iron chelators and collaborated on gene transfer studies aimed at curative approaches. Dr. Giardina serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the National Cooley's Anemia Foundation and the Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation, and New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical College has been designated a Hemoglobinopathy Specialty Center for Newborn Screening under her direction. She speaks English.
Conditions Treated
- Anemia
- Thalassemia
- Hemoglobinopathy