Norma Ramsay, M.D.

Professor (Emeritus)
Mayo Mail Code 366
420 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN  55455
Phone: (612) 626-2961
Fax: (612) 626-4074

Dr. Ramsay is a Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics.  She was the Division Director for the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program from 1979-2004, and for the combined divisions of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation from 1998 - 2004.

She is an internationally known researcher in the area of bone marrow transplantation.  She received a medical degree with honors from the University of Manitoba in 1968, and completed both her residency and fellowship at the University of Minnesota. She was appointed Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota in 1985, Director of the Division of Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation in 1979 and Director of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology since 1996. She served as co-Program Leader of the Transplant Biology and Therapy Program of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center.

Dr. Ramsay is recognized for her research and clinical contribution in bone marrow transplantation, including transplantation for severe aplastic anemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia.  Dr. Ramsay has published several hundred papers on bone marrow transplantation and pediatric oncology, and is a member of numerous national societies.

Selected Recent Publications:

Woodard JP, Gulbahce E, Shreve M, Steiner M, Peters C, Hite S, Ramsay NKC, DeFor T, Baker KS: Pulmonary Cytolytic Thrombi: A Newly Recognized Complication of Stem Cell Transplantation.  Bone Marrow Transplantation 25: 293-300, 2000.

Eapen M, Ramsay NKC, Mertens AC, Robison LL, DeFor T, Davies SM.  Late Outcomes after Bone Marrow Transplant for Aplastic Anaemia.  British Journal of Haematology 111:754-760, 2000.

Barker J, Davies SM, DeFor T, Ramsay NKC, Weisdorf DJ, Wagner JE.  Survival After Transplantation of Unrelated Donor Umbilical Cord Blood is Comparable to that of HLA-matched Unrelated Donor Bone Marrow: Results of a Matched Pair Analysis.  Blood 97: 2957-2961, 2001.

Nagarajan R, Neglia J, Ramsay N, Baker KS: Successful Treatment of Refractory Langerhan Cell Histiocytosis with Unrelated Cord Blood Transplant.  Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 23:629-632, 2001.

MacMillan ML, Weisdorf DJ, Davies SM, DeFor TE, Burns LJ, Ramsay NKC, Wagner JE, Blazar BR:  Early Treatment with Anti-Thymocyte Globulin is Effective in Patients with Steroid Resistant Skin Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease.  Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 8:40-46, 2002.

MacMillan ML, Weisdorf DJ, Wagner JE, DeFor TE, Burns LJ, Ramsay NKC, Davies SM, Blazar BR: Response of 443 Patients to Steroids as Primary Therapy for Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease:  Comparison of Grading Systems.  Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 8:387-394 2002.

Wagner JE, Barker JN, DeFor TE, Baker KS, Blazar BR, Eide C, Goldman A, Kersey J, Krivit W, MacMillan ML, Orchard PJ, Peters C, Weisdorf, DJ, Ramsay NKC, Davies SM.  Transplantation of Unrelated Donor Umbilical Cord Blood in 102 Patients with Malignant and Nonmalignant Diseases:  Influence of CD 34 Cell Dose and HLA Disparity on Treatment-Related Mortality and Survival.   Blood 100:1611-1618, 2002.

Baker KS, DeFor TE, Burns LJ, Ramsay NKC, Neglia JP, Robison LL.  New Malignancies After Blood or Marrow Stem-Cell Transplantation in Children and Adults: Incidence and Risk Factors.  Journal of Clinical Oncology 21:1352-1358, 2003.