A private clinic in Ocean Springs on the Mississippi coast offering fat-derived stem cell injections under a Cell Surgical Network research protocol, led by Dr Hazem Barmada.
The Gulf Coast Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center, also presented on its own site as the Mississippi Stem Cell Treatment Center, is a private clinic in Ocean Springs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It describes itself as an affiliate of the Cell Surgical Network, a United States group of clinics that the site says has operated since 2010 and that offers a shared protocol for treatment using cells taken from a patient's own fat.
The single therapy at the centre of the practice is stromal vascular fraction (SVF), a mixture of cells separated from fat tissue that the site says is rich in stem cells and growth factors. The site states the fat is the patient's own, making the treatment autologous (from the patient's own body), and describes the process as a same-day outpatient procedure from which patients usually go home the same day. A separate article on the site refers to these cells as adipose-derived stem cells and says they need only minimal laboratory handling before use.
The range of conditions the site discusses is unusually broad for a single treatment, spanning orthopaedic, neurological, cardiac, autoimmune and urological problems. The site frames much of this as investigational and as part of a Cell Surgical Network research project, and says a safety record has been published in a peer-reviewed journal. It is important to be clear about what that means: a safety publication is not evidence that the treatment works for any of the conditions listed, and the site does not present outcome evidence for them. Much of the material reads as general background on stem cell research rather than as results from this clinic.
No prices are published, and the site does not name an institutional review board by number or state how the investigational status affects what a patient pays. In practice, treatments of this kind in the United States are normally paid for in full by the patient. Anyone considering treatment here would want to ask what the procedure costs, what the protocol involves, what the consent documents say, and what evidence exists for their particular condition.
The site names a very wide range of conditions; it presents most of this work as investigational rather than established treatment.
The site says its treatment uses stromal vascular fraction separated from the patient's own fat tissue, which it describes as rich in stem cells and growth factors.
Two people are named on the site, one a physician and one a laboratory director.
The clinic is at a street address on Ocean Springs Road in Ocean Springs, a small town east of Biloxi on the Mississippi coast. It is presented as an outpatient centre where fat is harvested, processed and the resulting cell preparation given back to the patient on the same visit, which implies on-site processing equipment, though the site does not describe the laboratory, its equipment or any accreditation. A named director of stem cell technology is listed, which suggests in-house processing staff.
The site does not publish prices and does not say how the treatment is paid for. Work of this kind in the United States is ordinarily self-funded rather than covered by insurance, but the site makes no statement either way, so a written quotation would need to be requested.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.