About Us

Allergies, immunodeficiencies and transplant medicine share a common basis in the complex workings of the immune system. Our division brings together these three areas within the Department of Pediatrics. The division provides top-tier clinical care for children with severe allergic, immunologic, malignant and non-malignant diseases. This includes marrow failure, primary immunodeficiencies, immune regulatory disorders, and metabolic diseases. Our goal is to cure 100% of these critically ill children. 

Division Leadership

Christopher Dvorak, MD
Division Chief of Allergy, Immunology, & BMT

Dr. Dvorak specializes in stem cell transplantation for children with immunodeficiencies, blood disorders and cancer. He is a member of the Helen Diller Family Cancer Center and of the UCSF Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research. Dr. Dvorak studies ways to lower the incidence of relapse in patients who have stem cell transplants for childhood leukemia. He also investigates how to minimize BMT complications and how to improve outcomes after stem cell transplants for severe combined immunodeficiencies (genetic disorders in which infants lack normal immune function), often called SCID. Dr. Dvorak’s expertise is in designing clinical trials aimed at decreasing transplant-related morbidity and mortality as well as optimizing approaches to transplant for very young children, especially those with immunodeficiencies.

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