Jennifer Krajewski has served the Pediatric Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation Program at Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center since 2010. Her primary interest is in the use of allogeneic transplantation for sickle cell anemia. Dr. Krajewski is a member of the Sickle Cell Transplant Advocacy & Research Alliance (STAR), an international organization created to investigate the best way to use stem cell transplants to cure sickle cell disease. She was recently appointed co-chair of the STAR Advocacy Education Outreach Committee. Along with STAR, her professional affiliations include: Alpha Omega Alpha, the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, and the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Consortium. She co-authored a review article on the use of stem cell transplantation as a cure for sickle cell anemia, published in the journal Bone Marrow Transplantation in 2012. She also served as a co-investigator in a quality improvement project examining the role of a treatment pathway for pediatric sickle cell patients presenting in the emergency department with vaso-occlusive crisis.

Representative Publications:

A Multicenter Study of Bacterial Blood Stream Infections in Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients: The Role of Acute Gastrointestinal Graft-versus-Host Disease

Pulmonary thromboembolism in a child with sickle cell hemoglobin d disease in the setting of acute chest syndrome

Use of a clinical pathway to improve the acute management of vaso-occlusive crisis pain in pediatric sickle cell disease

Successful matched sibling donor marrow transplantation following reduced intensity conditioning in children with hemoglobinopathies

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