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
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.
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