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Sandhya Kharbanda, MD

Pediatric hematologist and oncologist

Clinics

Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
1975 Fourth St., Sixth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone: (415) 476-2188
Fax: (415) 502-4867

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Education

Government School of Medicine 1993

Residencies

State University of NY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, 1999

Fellowships

Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh/UPMC Health System, 2002
University of Minnesota, 2003

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Winestone LE, Punn R, Tamaresis JS, Buckingham J, Pinsky BA, Waggoner JJ, Kharbanda S. High human herpesvirus 6 viral load in pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients is associated with detection in end organs and high mortality. Pediatr Transplant. 2018 Mar; 22(2).
  2. Kowarsky M, Camunas-Soler J, Kertesz M, De Vlaminck I, Koh W, Pan W, Martin L, Neff NF, Okamoto J, Wong RJ, Kharbanda S, El-Sayed Y, Blumenfeld Y, Stevenson DK, Shaw GM, Wolfe ND, Quake SR. Numerous uncharacterized and highly divergent microbes which colonize humans are revealed by circulating cell-free DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Sep 05; 114(36):9623-9628.
  3. Sharon E, Shi H, Kharbanda S, Koh W, Martin LR, Khush KK, Valantine H, Pritchard JK, De Vlaminck I. Quantification of transplant-derived circulating cell-free DNA in absence of a donor genotype. PLoS Comput Biol. 2017 Aug; 13(8):e1005629.
  4. Theruvath AJ, Sukerkar PA, Bao S, Rosenberg J, Luna-Fineman S, Kharbanda S, Daldrup-Link HE. Bone marrow oedema predicts bone collapse in paediatric and adolescent leukaemia patients with corticosteroid-induced osteonecrosis. Eur Radiol. 2018 Jan; 28(1):410-417.
  5. Chaudhury S, Ayas M, Rosen C, Ma M, Viqaruddin M, Parikh S, Kharbanda S, Chiang KY, Haight A, Bhatia M, Guilcher G, Thompson A, Shenoy S. A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis Stressing the Importance of Long-Term Follow-Up after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for ß-Thalassemia. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2017 Oct; 23(10):1695-1700.
  6. Cox K, Punn R, Weiskopf E, Pinsky BA, Kharbanda S. Pericardial Effusion Following Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Children and Young Adults Is Associated with Increased Risk of Mortality. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2017 Jul; 23(7):1165-1169.
  7. Wadhwani SI, Nakayuenyongsuk W, Shinn L, Chase P, Kharbanda S, Bass D, Park KT. Predictive Value of Fecal Calprotectin in Pediatric Graft-Versus-Host Disease. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2016 12; 63(6):e208-e209.
  8. Aftandilian C, Weinberg K, Willert J, Kharbanda S, Porteus M, Maldonado Y, Agarwal R. Invasive Fungal Disease in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2016 Oct; 38(7):574-580.
  9. Mitton B, Coutre S, Willert J, Schlis K, Porteus M, Kharbanda S, Agarwal-Hashmi R. A pediatric case of T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015 Jun; 62(6):1061-2.
  10. Mahadeo KM, Weinberg KI, Abdel-Azim H, Miklos DB, Killen R, Kohn D, Crooks GM, Shah AJ, Kharbanda S, Agarwal R, Kapoor N. A reduced-toxicity regimen is associated with durable engraftment and clinical cure of nonmalignant genetic diseases among children undergoing blood and marrow transplantation with an HLA-matched related donor. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2015 Mar; 21(3):440-4.
  11. Garfin PM, Link MP, Donaldson SS, Advani RH, Luna-Fineman S, Kharbanda S, Porteus M, Weinberg KI, Agarwal-Hashmi R. Improved outcomes after autologous bone marrow transplantation for children with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma: twenty years experience at a single institution. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2015 Feb; 21(2):326-34.
  12. Kharbanda S, Smith AR, Hutchinson SK, McKenna DH, Ball JB, Lamb LS, Agarwal R, Weinberg KI, Wagner JE. Unrelated donor allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for patients with hemoglobinopathies using a reduced-intensity conditioning regimen and third-party mesenchymal stromal cells. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2014 Apr; 20(4):581-6.
  13. Filiano AN, Fathallah-Shaykh HM, Fiveash J, Gage J, Cantor A, Kharbanda S, Johnson MR. Gene expression analysis in radiotherapy patients and C57BL/6 mice as a measure of exposure to ionizing radiation. Radiat Res. 2011 Jul; 176(1):49-61.
  14. Krishnamurti L, Kharbanda S, Biernacki MA, Zhang W, Baker KS, Wagner JE, Wu CJ. Stable long-term donor engraftment following reduced-intensity hematopoietic cell transplantation for sickle cell disease. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2008 Nov; 14(11):1270-8.
  15. Kharbanda S, Panoskaltsis-Mortari A, Haddad IY, Blazar BR, Orchard PJ, Cornfield DN, Grewal SS, Peters C, Regelmann WE, Milla CE, Baker KS. Inflammatory cytokines and the development of pulmonary complications after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in patients with inherited metabolic storage disorders. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2006 Apr; 12(4):430-7.
  16. Kharbanda S, Salter RD, Dong X, Tuma-Warrino RJ, Steinman RA. BDCM: a novel B-cell line with genetic and functional similarity to dendritic cells. Br J Haematol. 2002 Dec; 119(3):819-25.

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