Comprehensive Hematology, Immunology and Infectious Disease Program (CHIIP)
The Comprehensive Hematology, Immunology and Infectious Disease Program (CHIIP) at Monroe Carell brings together expert physicians from multiple specialties to treat children with rare disorders of the immune and blood systems. We know your child’s condition may be rare, complex, difficult to treat and lacking a diagnosis. You deserve a team of diverse physicians to care for your family.
In the CHIIP clinic your child will visit with one or more providers in diverse areas including immunology, hematology, infectious disease, oncology and bone marrow transplant during one clinic appointment in one patient room. This collaborative care will ensure your child receives the best and most up-to-date evaluation and treatment in a single, convenient appointment.
Our CHIIP team strives to provide your child the best care, and to become national leaders in treatment, educating the next generation of physicians and researching immune and blood systems disorders.
For CHIIP appointments and information, call (615) 875-CHIP (2447).
Conditions We Treat
We treat a broad range of disease types. They include known and undiagnosed groups of symptoms that may be due to immune, hematologic or infectious causes.
Meet Your Care Team
James A. ConnellyMD, BS
- Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Pediatric Genetics, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Pediatric Immunodeficiency, Pediatric Metabolic Disorders, Sickle Cell Disease, Stem Cell Transplant
Daniel E. DulekMD
- Infectious Disease, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Periodic Fever, Primary Immunodeficiencies, Secondary Immunodeficiencies, Transplant Infectious Diseases
Why Choose the CHIIP Clinic at Monroe Carell
- Exclusive care
Our program is the first of its kind in the Southeast and one of only a handful of centers in the country to provide combined expertise in rare immunologic and blood system disorders.
- Collaborative care
CHIIP is a true collaboration between nationally recognized specialists in many areas of care, ensuring your child receives the most current treatments. Your child will see multiple physicians during a single clinic visit. This allows for quick collaboration and real-time management, while saving you from having to make multiple visits with repetitive blood draws. We can then give you the most complete and rapid assessment of your child.
- Innovative research
Our physicians are also expert researchers in immunology and blood diseases. By partnering with immunology research expertise at Vanderbilt and collaborating with scientists nationally, we can offer your child the latest diagnostic and treatment options for a better, healthier outcome.
- Lifesaving screening
We are leading the effort to screen all newborns in Tennessee for severe immune deficiencies so that they may receive lifesaving therapy before becoming ill. This is one way we are helping children to overcome severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
Related Programs and Clinics
Patient Resources
Finding accurate, up-to-date information and connecting with patients and families with similar disorders can be difficult. The CHIIP team may suggest organizations that can provide your family with need- and disease-based support. You may also consider the following groups that provide excellent support and education on immune and blood disorders.