Carrie Kitko joins Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

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CARRIE KITKO joined Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt as associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Program in the Division of Hematology/Oncology. Kitko was previously assistant professor of the Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program in the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the University of Michigan School...

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