Dr. Andolina is most interested in the treatment and comprehensive care for children with leukemia and lymphoma, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), as well as the care for children with other cancers and blood diseases.

Dr. Andolina is the Director of Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation and has experience in treating both Leukemias, as well as non-malignant conditions including aplastic anemia and Immunodeficiencies. He has a particular interest in bone marrow transplant for patients with sickle cell anemia. In addition, Dr. Andolina has an interest in the adolescent and young adult population; he also cares for young adults undergoing bone marrow transplantation.

The University of Rochester is a member of multiple cooperative groups for pediatric cancer and pediatric bone marrow transplantation, including the Children's Oncology Group (COG), the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Tissue Consortium (PBMTC), and the Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium (PIDTC). Dr. Andolina is an investigator with each of these national groups and is the primary investigator for the PBMTC and PIDTC. He is on both the CML disease committee and also the cellular therapy committee of the COG. Together, we have over 75 clinical trials open and strive to have all front-line treatment studies open for our pediatric and young adult patients.

Please contact Dr. Andolina directly with any patient related or clinical related questions or concerns.

jeffrey_andolina@urmc.rochester.edu

Professional Background

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplantation
Director, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation

Faculty Appointments

Associate Professor - Department of Pediatrics, Hematology and Oncology (SMD)

Connect with Jeffrey R. Andolina, M.D., M.S.

Local story of young adult patient with sickle cell disease cured after bone marrow transplant

Local story of first patient treated on haploidentical bone marrow transplant protocol

National appearance on The Today Show, highlighting two adolescents successfully treated for cancer

Credentials

Residency & Fellowship

Fellowship, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Northwestern University. 2007 - 2010

Residency, Pediatrics, Northwestern University. 2005 - 2007

Internship, Pediatrics, Northwestern University. 2004 - 2005

Education

MD | University of Virginia School of Medicine. 2004

Awards

Make a Difference. 2022

Faculty Teaching Award for Pediatrics. 2022

Faculty Teaching Award for Pediatrics. 2021

Faculty Teaching Award for Pediatrics, presented by medical student class of 2021. 2020 - 2020

Early Career Distinguished Service Award. 2017 - 2017

Faculty Teaching Award for Pediatrics, presented by medical student class of 2019. 2017 - 2018

Young Investigator Award, travel stipend. 2016 - 2016

ICare Bronze Star Award. 2015 - 2015

Faculty Teaching Award. 2015 - 2016

Ruth A. Lawrence Academic Faculty Service Award. 2015 - 2016

Faculty Teaching Award for Pediatrics presented by UR Medicine Medical Student Class of 2016. 2014 - 2015

Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA). 2013 - 2014

Faculty Teaching Award for Pediatrics. 2013 - 2014

Children's Oncology Group Primary Investigator (PI). 2012

A. Todd Davis Physician Award. 2007

Resident Teaching Award. 2007

Resident Teaching Award. 2005

Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society. 2004

Research

Dr. Andolina is interested in improving the outcome for children with cancer through offering enrollment on multi-institutional clinical trials through the Children's Oncology Group (COG) and Pediatric Blood and Marrow Tissue Consortium (PBMTC).

Dr. Andolina has a particular interest in Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation; Leukemia; Lymphoma; Neuroblastoma; Hematology, Oncology; Pediatric Hematology Oncology; Pediatric Oncology; Pediatric Cancer.

Dr. Andolina's research interests including improving bone marrow transplantation for children and young adults. He and colleagues have developed a clinical trial using haploidentical donors for bone marrow transplant, for those patients without fully matched sibling or matched unrelated donors. Haploidentical donors are "half matches," and almost all patients will have an available haploidentical donor, as all biological parents and half of full siblings will fall into this category.

Other research interests include evaluating reduced-intensity conditioning regimens for pediatric patients with malignant and non-malignant diseases, especially sickle cell anemia.

Dr. Andolina also performs laboratory research including the study of the gene expression profile of acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells, specifically evaluating gene expression changes which may confer survival advantages post-allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Please contact Dr. Andolina directly with any patient related or clinical related questions or concerns.

jeffrey_andolina@urmc.rochester.edu