Leslie Pettiford, RN, MS, CCRC

Leslie has cared for patients with hematologic malignancies, including aplastic anemia aplastic anemia: (ay-PLASS-tik uh-NEE_mee-uh) A rare and serious condition in which the bone marrow fails to make enough blood cells - red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. The term aplastic is a Greek word meaning not to form. Anemia is a condition that happens when red blood cell count is low. Most… , leukemia and MDS, for almost 20 years She earned her BSN and worked as a staff nurse in Bone Marrow Transplant Bone Marrow Transplant: A bone marrow transplant (BMT) is also called a stem cell transplant (SCT) or hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT).The procedure replaces unhealthy blood-forming stem cells with healthy ones and offers some patients the possibility of a cure. But for many patients, a BMT is not an option due… for 10 years. Leslie moved into clinical research clinical research: A type of research that involves individual persons or a group of people. There are three types of clinical research. Patient-oriented research includes clinical trials which test how a drug, medical device, or treatment approach works in people. Epidemiology or behavioral studies look at the… in 2007. She completed her MS in Pharmacy (Clinical Research Regulation and Ethics) from the University of Florida in 2014. Leslie has worked as a Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator and Supervisor in the Malignant Hematology Division of the Clinical Trials Clinical Trials: Clinical research is at the heart of all medical advances, identifying new ways to prevent, detect or treat disease. If you have a bone marrow failure disease, you may want to consider taking part in a clinical trial, also called a research study. Understanding Clinical Trials Clinical… Office at UF. Recently, Leslie was promoted to Assistant Director of Operations and Education at the UF Health Cancer Center.