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HCC physician named CRBJ health care hero Rob Stuart, M.D., was named the 2007 Physician Health Care Hero by the Charleston Regional Business Journal (CRBJ) as part of its annual recognition of health care professionals who have achieved and served with excellence.   Stuart is the interim director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program and director of the Clinical Trials Network at Hollings Cancer Center, and has enjoyed a long and distinguished career at MUSC since coming here in 1985 from Johns Hopkins University.   His marks of achievement are widespread. The founding director of MUSC’s Hematology/Oncology Division, Stuart is credited with the success of MUSC’s cancer center, which has grown to be South Carolina’s leading academic-based treatment and research center.   In 1986, Stuart established an accredited Hematology/Oncology fellowship training program and founded a cancer clinical trials program that has brought world-class research studies to the state.   In 1987, he fought to have Medicaid and Medicare recognize MUSC as a transplant facility to ease the financial burden on patients. In that same year, he performed the state’s first bone marrow transplant. Since then, the program he started has performed nearly 800 bone marrow transplants. It is the state’s only program of its kind. The MUSC program also is the only one in the state that performs pediatric bone marrow transplants and transplants from unrelated donors.     Friday, Dec. 14, 2007 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.