Sharad Khurana MD, MSc

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Assistant Professor, Medicine
Biography
Dr. Sharad Khurana is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. After obtaining his medical degree from the Grant Government Medical College in Mumbai, he trained in internal medicine from the John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago, where he simultaneously graduated from the Rush University completing a Masters in Clinical Research. He is board certified in internal medicine and completed his Hematology-Oncology fellowship from the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville campus in Florida. He is a faculty member at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, practicing as a hematologist with focus in management of Acute Leukemias and Bone Marrow transplant/Cellular therapies. Dr. Khurana is oncology and hematology board certified.
Cancer Focus
Area of clinical expertise: Acute Leukemias and pre-leukemic malignant conditions like MDS/MPN along with Bone Marrow Transplant/Cellular Therapies.
Research Focus: Development and evaluation of novel/combinatorial therapeutic agents for acute leukemias and pre-leukemic malignant disorders including biomarker based therapeutic/prognostic research.
Selected Publications
Beltran, M., S. Khurana, Y. Gil, J. T. Lewis, R. Kumar, and J. M. Foran, "Nonimmunoglobulin Crystal-Storing Histiocytosis (CSH): Case Report and Literature Review.", Case Rep Hematol, vol. 2020, pp. 8856411, 2020. PMCID: PMC7593749 PMID: 33133706
Khurana, S., M. E. Melody, R. P. Ketterling, J. F. Peterson, I. M. Luoma, G. Vazmatzis, H. W. Tun, J. M. Foran, and L. Jiang, "Molecular and phenotypic characterization of an early T-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic lymphoma harboring PICALM-MLLT10 fusion with aberrant expression of B-cell antigens.", Cancer Genet, vol. 240, pp. 40-44, 2020 01. PMID: 31739126
Khurana, S., J. C. Sluzevich, R. He, D. K. Reimer, M. A. Kharfan-Dabaja, J. M. Foran, and L. Jiang, "Association Between High-grade Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Cutaneous Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Suggested by Next-Generation Sequencing.", JAMA Dermatol, vol. 156, issue 7, pp. 817-819, 2020 Jul 01. PMID: 32374348
Ailawadhi, S., B. R. Dholaria, S. Khurana, T. Sher, V. Alegria, A. Paulus, M. Ailawadhi, A. Mehta, A. Chanan-Khan, and V. Roy, "Outcomes of patients with simultaneous diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma and multiple myeloma.", Br J Haematol, vol. 185, issue 2, pp. 347-350, 2019 04. PMID: 29978498
Khurana, S., M. Beltran, L. Jiang, E. Ayala, and V. Roy, "Primary Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma: Case Report and Literature Review.", Case Rep Hematol, vol. 2019, pp. 3540487, 2019. PMCID: PMC6402200 PMID: 30915242