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Kimberly Duff

Kimberly Duff, R.N., B.S.N.

Kimberly Duff is the Senior Clinical Consultant for Baxter BioTherapeutics Global Clinical and Medical Affairs. Before coming to Baxter, Kimberly worked at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. She’s been caring for patients with PI for the last 13 years. She was involved with many clinical IgG trials (IV and SC) and was responsible for case management of over 80 PI patients. She is a long-time supporter of the Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF) and recently served as chair of the IDF nursing advisory board. She has a special interest in providing patients with educational resources to provide the highest quality of care.

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Dr. Schiff

Immunologist Richard Schiff, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Schiff is Global Medical Director for Immune Therapy at Baxter BioScience. His research interests include inheritable immune disorders and treatment with intravenous gammaglobulin. Before coming to Baxter, Dr. Schiff served as Director of Clinical Immunology at Miami Children’s Hospital and was an associate professor of pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine.

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Families and PI

Dayna Fladhammer

Dayna Fladhammer

Dayna Fladhammer is a former junior high school teacher and the mom of three children with Primary Immune Deficiency. Dayna, along with Baxter and Adina Bodolay, Certified Child Life Specialist, created the Therapeutic Play Kit. You can read about Dayna in our Family Stories section and order My IVIG book, created by Dayna and her son.

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Therapeutic Play

Adina Bodolay

Adina Bodolay, Certified Child Life Specialist

Adina Bodolay works as a Certified Child Life Specialist in Los Angeles. She has 10 years experience with pediatric patients, 8 of those years with working almost exclusively with pediatric patients living with Primary Immunodeficiency. Adina, along with Baxter and Dayna Fladhammer and her family, created the Therapeutic Play Kit. Her passion is helping children learn to cope with the stress and anxiety brought on by the medical environment. She believes, it's through positive coping skills and therapeutic play that dealing with medical challenges becomes possible.

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Insurance & Reimbursement

Kim Jones

Kimberly Jones. R.N.

Kim Jones is Group Manager of Reimbursement for Baxter BioScience Department of Healthcare Economics (HCE). She has fifteen years of experience working with consumers, physicians’ offices and specialty pharmacies on health insurance problems, and advocating for patients in the public and private sector.

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Plasma Safety

Thomas Kreil

Thomas R. Kreil , Ph.D.

Dr. Kreil is director of Global Pathogen Safety for Baxter BioScience and chairman of the Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association (PPTA) Pathogen Steering committee. He is distinguished as a researcher and lecturer in the field of anti-viral immunology.

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The PI Panel cannot respond to questions about individual medical cases, provide second opinions or make specific recommendations regarding therapy. The information our experts provide is from their own experiences. Always seek the advice of your own physician or other qualified healthcare professional regarding any medical condition. We will do our best to address as many questions as possible. We will not publish the names of any patients, physicians, or therapies.