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NAME: Vusirikala, Madhuri

eRA COMMONS USER NAME (credential, e.g., agency login): mvusir

POSITION TITLE: Professor of Medicine

EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.)

I am a hematologist-oncologist with special interest in malignant hematology and stem cell transplantation. My research interests are primarily in the field of stem cell transplantation, focusing on issues such as supportive care during and after transplant, reducing and managing graft-versus-host-disease. My clinical interests are along the lines of my research interest as a result of which I run the chronic graft-versus-host-disease clinic at our program. I have several clinical trials focused on improving this issue.

The second clinical interest I have is in the management of hematologic diseases in AYA population (aplastic anemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia) and manage the clinical trials portfolio for ALL at our center.

My extensive training as well as my experience with clinical trials in hematologic malignancies qualifies me well to be Co-PI for this research project.

Positions and Employment

2000-2006                  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

2006-2008                   Assistant Professor of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

2008-2015                   Associate Professor of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

2015-present   Professor of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

2010-                           Member, American Society of Bone Marrow Transplant

2011-                           Member, Texas Medical Association and Dallas County Medical Society

1.    Vusirikala M, Wolff SN, Stein RS, Brandt SJ, Morgan DS, Greer JP, Schuening FG, Dummer JS, Goodman SA. Valacyclovir for the prevention of cytomegalovirus infection after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: a single institution retrospective cohort analysis. Bone Marrow Transplant.  2001 Aug;28(3):265-70.
2.    Sutton L, Vusirikala M, Chen W. Hematogone Hyperplasia in Copper Deficiency. Am J Clin Pathol. 2009 Aug;132(2):191-9.
3.    Naina HV, Levitt D, Vusirikala M, Anderson LD Jr, Scaglioni PP, Kirk A, Collins RH Jr. Successful treatment of relapsed and refractory extramedullary acute promyelocytic leukemia with tamibarotene.  J Clin Oncol. 2011 Apr 11.
4.   Brown, T. J., Gentry, C., Hammer, S. T. G., Hwang, C. S., Vusirikala, M., Patel, P. A., … Collins, R. H. (2017). Novel Application of Extracorporeal Photopheresis as Treatment of Graft-versus-Host Disease Following Liver Transplantation. ACG Case Reports Journal, 4, e48.
5.    Robert J. Soiffer, Haesook T. Kim, Joseph McGuirk, Mitchell E. Horwitz, Laura Johnston, Mrinal M. Patnaik, Witold Rybka, Andrew Artz, David L. Porter, Thomas C. Shea, Michael W. Boyer, Richard T. Maziarz, Paul J. Shaughnessy, Usama Gergis, Hana Safah, Ran Reshef, John F. DiPersio, Patrick J. Stiff, Madhuri Vusirikala, Jeff Szer, Jennifer Holter, James D. Levine, Paul J. Martin, Joseph A. Pidala, Ian D. Lewis, Vincent T. Ho, Edwin P. Alyea, Jerome Ritz, Frank Glavin, Peter Westervelt, Madan H. Jagasia, and Yi-Bin Chen. Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase III Clinical Trial of Anti–T-Lymphocyte Globulin to Assess Impact on Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease–Free Survival in Patients Undergoing HLA-Matched Unrelated Myeloablative Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Oct 17.
6. Richard Schlenk, Jürgen Krauter, Emmanuel Raffoux, Karl-Anton Kreuzer, Markus Schaich, Lucien Noens, Thomas Pabst, Madhuri Vusirikala, Didier Bouscary, Andrew Spencer, Anna Candoni, Jorge Sierra Gil, Noah Berkowitz, Hans-Jochen Weber, Oliver Ottmann. Panobinostat Monotherapy And Combination Therapy In Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Results From Two Clinical Trials. Haematologica. 2017 Oct 19.
7. Tumati V, Trivedi L, Li HC, Patel P, Scaglioni PP, Vusirikala M, Sadeghi N, Rizvi S, Chen W, Wachsmann J, Collins R Jr, Desai NB. Patterns of Failure in Patients With Double Hit or Double Expressor Lymphomas: Implications for Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2018 Apr 1;100(5):1126-1132

Leukemia Texas                                                                                             2014-2015

The Feasibility and Acceptability of Incorporating Electronic Assessment Tools during Outpatient Visits for Patients in the Maintenance Phase of Therapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Role: Co-Investigator