Dr. Arnon Nagler Reviews
Patient Experience
Dr. Nagler saved my 72-year-old mother when her AML relapsed, his unconventional approach combining haploidentical transplant with novel cellular therapy gave us three extra years we never thought possible. His team at Sheba coordinated everything seamlessly, even during Israel's lockdowns.
Our 6-year-old daughter’s rare genetic disorder required a cord blood transplant from an international donor. Dr. Nagler personally video-called us at 2 AM to explain the graft-versus-host risks in simple terms, then stayed by her bedside for 48 hours post-transplant. She’s now chasing butterflies.
Rushed to Sheba with sudden aplastic anemia, I was terrified, but Dr. Nagler’s calm intensity during emergency immunosuppression therapy felt like being anchored in a storm. He remembered my name even when intubated.
As a medical student observing BMT rotations, I watched Dr. Nagler decline a prestigious conference invitation to personally handle a teenage patient’s cytokine release syndrome. He taught me that brilliance means nothing without devotion.
Flying from Cyprus for my brother’s transplant, we hit paperwork chaos. Dr. Nagler bypassed red tape by calling the embassy himself, then joked about 'medical diplomacy' while reviewing donor matches over Turkish coffee.
Post-transplant, I developed severe skin GVHD. Instead of standard steroids, Dr. Nagler designed a targeted photopheresis protocol using experimental wavelengths. My husband said he looked more like an obsessed artist than a doctor, but it worked.
For my 8-month follow-up, Dr. Nagler spotted abnormal lymphocytes in a routine blood smear others would’ve missed. He rerouted my entire treatment plan that day, saying 'Early action is the only luxury we have in hematology.'
My father’s dementia made consent impossible. Dr. Nagler spent hours with our family drawing diagrams on napkins, then sang Hebrew lullabies to calm my father during bone marrow harvest. Medicine as humanity.
After three failed transplants elsewhere, Dr. Nagler reviewed my case and muttered 'We need to trick your immune system into thinking it’s hosting a friendly guest.' His 'immune deception' protocol involved timed chemo microdoses, now I’m 2 years in remission.
During my daughter’s transplant, Dr. Nagler noticed she loved astronomy. He arranged for a telescopic view from her isolation room and explained neutrophil recovery using constellation metaphors. She still calls him 'Dr. Star.'
Emergency flown from Kenya with fanconi anemia, my son had no matching donors. Dr. Nagler pioneered a dual cord blood transplant using stem cells from two unrelated donors, something never done at Sheba before. The man thrives on impossible puzzles.
At 81, I was deemed 'too old' for transplant elsewhere. Dr. Nagler redesigned the conditioning regimen using reduced toxicity approaches tailored to my cardiac history. 'Age is just a number,' he said, 'biology is the truth.'
Post-transplant COVID nearly killed me. Dr. Nagler collaborated with virologists in real-time to adjust monoclonal antibodies dosing, once video-conferencing with a Japanese lab at 3 AM while holding my hand.
Routine checkup turned into a lifesaving intervention when Dr. Nagler noticed subtle oral graft-versus-host changes I’d dismissed as 'canker sores.' His obsession with details is both terrifying and magnificent.
