Blood Disorders

Benign Hematology

ColumbiaDoctors’ highly personalized care of adults and children with blood disorders includes the expert services of specialist faculty physicians, nurses, scientists, and staff, who care for patients with bleeding, blood marrow, vascular, and endovascular disorders, as well as those with cancer.

All of our patients receive care from integrated, multidisciplinary teams that feature physicians versed in state-of-the-art treatments. Our hematologists use of pioneering technologies, such as our state-of-the-art Special Hematology Laboratory and the Laboratory of Personalized Genomic Medicine to diagnose our patients, including those with very rare blood disorders, and to create appropriate treatment programs tailored to each patient, as well as access to the most state-of-the-art clinical trials. In addition to primary treatment of our patients’ disorders, our hematologists include expert management of patients’ symptoms and complications, and they have access to all the additional ColumbiaDoctors specialists and treatments as needed.

All of ColumbiaDoctors hematologists are affiliated Columbia University’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC), one of only 45 institutions in the United States and only two in New York City recognized as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Our ColumbiaDoctors Pediatric Hematologists are all affiliated with the NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital (NYPMSCH), one of the first programs of its kind in the United States, and currently nationally ranked in more pediatric specialties than any other hospital in the New York metropolitan area. ColumbiaDoctors’ Pediatric Hematology currently cares for more than 500 patients with acute and chronic hematologic (blood) disorders, including anemia, bleeding disorders, blood vessel abnormalities, bone marrow failure syndromes, clotting disorders, hemoglobinopathies, sickle cell disease, and thalassemias.

Our ColumbiaDoctors practices are conveniently located at the Herbert Irving Pavilion in Washington Heights, as well as in midtown Manhattan and other sites within New York City and Westchester County, offering seamless care for patients visiting our offices or requiring hospital stays within the Columbia University Irving Medical Center network.

Our combined expertise and resources as New York’s No. 1 hospital and top National Institutes of Health-funded research center permit our patients to receive the best blood disorder care possible. We accept new patients as well as those referred to us by outside physicians for our specialty areas, including: