Clinical Interests

Immunobiology; translational research; immunologic methods development

Research Interests

Clinical investigation of primary immunodeficiency disorders (with emphasis on disorders of immunodysregulation and B-cell disorders); immuno-reconstitution following blood and marrow transplantation; diagnostic immunology (with emphasis on flow cytometry) 

MD: University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1989.

PhD: University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2002.

Residency: Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1993.

Fellowship: Allergy/Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1995.

Fellowship: Clinical Laboratory Immunology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 2001.

Jodele S, Bleesing JJ, Mehta PA, Filipovich AH, Laskin BL, Goebel J, Pinkard SL, Davies SM. Successful early intervention for hyperacute transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy following pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Pediatr Transplant. 2010 Nov 5.

Eckrich MJ, Yang E, Domm J, Ho R, Calder C, Manes B, Bleesing J, Frangoul H. A Unique Clinical Presentation of X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome With a Novel Mutation in SH2D1A and Review of the Literature. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2010 Oct 21. 

Marsh RA, Bleesing JJ, Filipovich AH. Using flow cytometry to screen patients for X-linked lymphoproliferative disease due to SAP deficiency and XIAP deficiency. J Immunol Methods. 2010 Oct 31;362(1-2):1-9. 

Marsh RA, Villanueva J, Kim MO, Zhang K, Marmer D, Risma KA, Jordan MB, Bleesing JJ, Filipovich AH. Patients with X-linked lymphoproliferative disease due to BIRC4 mutation have normal invariant natural killer T-cell populations. Clin Immunol. 2009 Jul;132(1):116-23. 

Marsh RA, Villanueva J, Zhang K, Snow AL, Su HC, Madden L, Mody R, Kitchen B, Marmer D, Jordan MB, Risma KA, Filipovich AH, Bleesing JJ. A rapid flow cytometric screening test for X-linked lymphoproliferative disease due to XIAP deficiency. Cytometry B Clin Cytom. 2009 Sep;76(5):334-44.

Hansen MD, Filipovich AH, Davies SM, Mehta P, Bleesing J, Jodele S, Hayashi R, Barnes Y, Shenoy S. Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) in Hurler's syndrome using a reduced intensity preparative regimen. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2008 Feb;41(4):349-53.

Bhatla D, Davies SM, Shenoy S, Harris RE, Crockett M, Shoultz L, Smolarek T, Bleesing J, Hansen M, Jodele S, Jordan M, Filipovich AH, Mehta PA. Reduced-intensity conditioning is effective and safe for transplantation of patients with Shwachman-Diamond syndrome. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2008 Aug;42(3):159-65.

Zhang K, Johnson JA, Biroschak J, Villanueva J, Lee SM, Bleesing JJ, Risma KA, Wenstrup RJ, Filipovich AH. Familial haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in patients who are heterozygous for the A91V perforin variation is often associated with other genetic defects. Int J Immunogenet. 2007 Aug;34(4):231-3. 

Book Chapters

JJH Bleesing. Assays for B Cell and Germinal Center Development (unit 7.34). In Current Protocols in Immunology. JE Coligan, BE Bierer, DH Margulies, EM Shevach, W Strober (eds.). Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.

JJH Bleesing, TA Fleisher, JM Puck. Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS). In Immunologic Disorders in Infants and Children. 5th ed. ER Stiehm, HD Ochs, JA Winkelstein (eds). Philadelphia, PA: WB Saunders, 2004.