University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview Position(s)
Pediatric Hematologist Oncologist
Other Related Positions Currently Held
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Blood/Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota
Board Certifications
Pediatric Hematology Oncology
Pediatrics
Sees Patients At
-University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview
-Pediatric Specialty Clinic (Minneapolis)
-Masonic Cancer Clinic (Minneapolis)
Clinical Interests
Anemia
Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Antithrombin 3 Deficiency
Bleeding Disorders
Blood Cancer
Bone Cancer
Brain Tumor
Chemotherapy
Clotting Disorders
Deep Vein Thrombosis
Ewings Sarcoma
Factor V Leiden
Histiocytosis
Hodgkins Disease
Immunodeficiency
Infant Leukemia
Kidney Cancer
Laryngeal Cancer
Leukemia
Liver Cancer
Lung Cancer
Mesothelioma
Neutropenia
Oral Cancer
Ovarian Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
Pediatric Hematology
Pediatric Oncology
Protein C and S Deficiency
Pulmonary Embolism
Skin Cancer
Stomach Cancer
Testicular Cancer
Throat Cancer
Thrombocytopenia
Thrombosis
Von Willebrand Disease
Education
Medical School
Lokmanya Tilak Medical College, Bombay, India
Site of Residency
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Site of Fellowship
University of Minnesota
Awards and Honors
Winner of the inter-medical school competitive examination in Leprosy, conducted by the Ackworth Leprosy Institute, Mumbai, India, 1993
Tung-Yang-Wing memorial award for superior achievement in graduate studies in Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Iowa, IA, 1996
Nominated by first year medical students for Ancillary Staff of the Year Award, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, 1997
Chief Resident, Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Residency Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2000
William Kennedy Research Fellowship Award, National Childhood Cancer Foundation, 2002
Second prize winner, Pediatric Fellows’ Research Symposium, University of Minnesota, 2003
Children’s Oncology Group Young Investigator Award, 2005
Child Health Research Career Development Award, 2005
Best Doctors in America®, 2007-2008
Research Interest(s)
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Infant Leukemia
Selected Recent Publications
White JG, Kumar AR, Hogan MJ. Gray Platelet Syndrome in a Somalian Family. Platelets. 2006. In press.
Chen W, Li Q, Hudson WA, Kumar A, Kirchhof N, Kersey JH. A murine Mll-AF4 knockin model results in lymphoid and myeloid deregulation and hematological malignancy. Blood. 2006 Mar 21; [Epub ahead of print]
KumarAR, Hudson WA, Chen W, Nishiuchi R, Yao Q, Kersey JH. Hoxa9 influences the phenotype but not the incidence of Mll-AF9 fusion gene leukemia. Blood 2004 103: 1823-1828.
KumarAR, Wagner JE, Auerbach AD et al. Fatal hemorrhage from androgen-related hepatic adenoma after hematopoietic cell transplantation. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 2004;26:16–18.
Yao Q, Nishiuchi R, Li Q, Kumar AR, Hudson WA, Kersey JH. FLT-3 Expressing Leukemias Are Selectively Sensitive to Inhibitors of the Molecular Chaperone Heat Shock Protein 90 through Destabilization of Signal Transduction-Associated Kinases. Clinical Cancer Research. 2003; 9(12):4483-93.
Goss KL, Kumar AR, Snyder JM. SP-A2 gene expression in human fetal lung airways. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 1998; 19(4):613-21.
Acarregui MJ, Kumar AR, Penisten ST, Snyder JM. O2 regulates surfactant protein-A mRNA transcription and stability in human fetal lung in vitro. American Journal of Physiology. 1998; 274:L343-50.
Kumar AR, Snyder JM. Differential regulation of SP-A1 and SP-A2 genes by cAMP, glucocorticoids, and insulin. American Journal of Physiology. 1998; 274:L177-85.
