2 doctors to head transplant program

Two physicians have been named to lead the Intermountain Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Program at LDS Hospital.

Dr. Finn Bo Petersen, author and contributor to more than 150 scientific publications and book chapters on blood and marrow transplantation, is the new medical director of the program. Dr. Julie Asch, a leading transplant clinician who also specializes in pediatric hematology and oncology, has been named associate medical director.

Petersen is one of the leading blood and marrow stem cell transplant specialists in the Intermountain West. For nine years he served on the faculty of the blood and marrow transplant program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. He previously served as medical director of the Utah Blood and Marrow Transplant Program. Prior to joining the Intermountain Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at LDS Hospital, Petersen was a faculty member of the University of Utah School of Medicine's division of hematology and blood and marrow transplantation.

Asch served on the faculty of the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine for six years. She completed a fellowship in pediatric hematology and oncology and in transfusion medicine from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and a fellowship in blood and marrow transplantation from the University of Utah. She was also a faculty member of the University of Utah School of Medicine's division of hematology and blood and marrow transplantation.