Victor Aquino, M.D.

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Dr. Victor Aquino's clinical interest focus on pediatric bone marrow transplantation. He is active in the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium. He has served as PI on several research protocols, is a member of the Data Safety Management Committee of several protocols, and is a member of the Oncology and Supportive Care Subcommittees of the group. He is also collaborating as institutional PI on several studies in non-myeloablative transplant and unrelated umbilical cord blood transplant. His other research interests have focused on the prevention and management of infection in children with cancer receiving chemotherapy and those who undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplant. He has performed research in immune reconstitution, management of infections, and developed protocols for outpatient management of febrile neutropenia. He is also an active member of the Children's Oncology Group and has served as a PI of a multi-institutional phase I study for the group.

Medical School

State University of New York - Syracuse (1989)

Residency

State University of New York Upstate Medical University (1992), Pediatrics

Fellowship

UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center (1995), Pediatric Hematology/oncology

• Development of stem cell transplant protocols for children with malignant and non-malignant disorders
• Development of treatment strategies to manage the complications of stem cell transplant and chemotherapy
• Management of bacterial and fungal infections in children with malignancies
• Outpatient management of febrile neutropenia in selected patients with cancer
• Phase I and II trials of new chemotherapeutic agents in children with cancer

Featured Publications

Evaluation of thymic output by measurement of T-cell-receptor gene rearrangement excisional circles (TREC) in patients who have received fludarabine.

Aquino VM, Douek DC, Berryman B, Johnson M, Jain VK, Collins RH Leuk. Lymphoma 2003 Feb 44 2 343-8

A prospective double-blind randomized trial of urokinase flushes to prevent bacteremia resulting from luminal colonization of subcutaneous central venous catheters.

Aquino VM, Sandler ES, Mustafa MM, Steele JW, Buchanan GR J. Pediatr. Hematol. Oncol. 2002 Dec 24 9 710-3

Clinical parameters associated with low bacteremia risk in 1100 pediatric oncology patients with fever and neutropenia.

Baorto EP, Aquino VM, Mullen CA, Buchanan GR, DeBaun MR Cancer 2001 Aug 92 4 909-13

Feasibility of oral ciprofloxacin for the outpatient management of febrile neutropenia in selected children with cancer.

Aquino VM, Herrera L, Sandler ES, Buchanan GR Cancer 2000 Apr 88 7 1710-4

Carboplatin for the treatment of children with newly diagnosed optic chiasm gliomas: a phase II study.

Aquino VM, Fort DW, Kamen BA J. Neurooncol. 1999 Feb 41 3 255-9

The genetic landscape of severe combined immunodeficiency in the United States and Canada in the current era (2010-2018).

Dvorak CC, Haddad E, Buckley RH, Cowan MJ, Logan B, Griffith LM, Kohn DB, Pai SY, Notarangelo L, Shearer W, Prockop S, Kapoor N, Heimall J, Chaudhury S, Shyr D, Chandra S, Cuvelier G, Moore T, Shenoy S, Goldman F, Smith AR, Sunkersett G, Vander Lugt M, Caywood E, Quigg T, Torgerson T, Chandrakasan S, Craddock J, Dávila Saldaña BJ, Gillio A, Shereck E, Aquino V, DeSantes K, Knutsen A, Thakar M, Yu L, Puck JM, J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. 2019 Jan 143 1 405-407

SCID genotype and 6-month posttransplant CD4 count predict survival and immune recovery.

Haddad E, Logan BR, Griffith LM, Buckley RH, Parrott RE, Prockop SE, Small TN, Chaisson J, Dvorak CC, Murnane M, Kapoor N, Abdel-Azim H, Hanson IC, Martinez C, Bleesing JJH, Chandra S, Smith AR, Cavanaugh ME, Jyonouchi S, Sullivan KE, Burroughs L, Skoda-Smith S, Haight AE, Tumlin AG, Quigg TC, Taylor C, Dávila Saldaña BJ, Keller MD, Seroogy CM, Desantes KB, Petrovic A, Leiding JW, Shyr DC, Decaluwe H, Teira P, Gillio AP, Knutsen AP, Moore TB, Kletzel M, Craddock JA, Aquino V, Davis JH, Yu LC, Cuvelier GDE, Bednarski JJ, Goldman FD, Kang EM, Shereck E, Porteus MH, Connelly JA, Fleisher TA, Malech HL, Shearer WT, Szabolcs P, Thakar MS, Vander Lugt MT, Heimall J, Yin Z, Pulsipher MA, Pai SY, Kohn DB, Puck JM, Cowan MJ, O'Reilly RJ, Notarangelo LD, Blood 2018 Oct 132 17 1737-1749

Successful engraftment after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with infusion of donor stem cells through the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation circuit.

Anton-Martin P, Darnell-Bowens C, Aquino VM, Jones T, Raman L Indian J Crit Care Med 2016 Oct 20 10 617-619

Long term outcomes of 176 patients with X-linked hyper IgM syndrome treated with or without hematopoietic cell transplantation.

de la Morena MT, Leonard D, Torgerson TR, Cabral-Marques O, Slatter M, Aghamohammadi A, Chandra S, Murguia-Favela L, Bonilla F, Kanariou M, Damrongwatanasuk R, Kuo CY, Dvorak CC, Meyts I, Chen K, Kobrynski L, Kapoor N, Richter D, DiGiovanni D, Dhalla F, Farmaki E, Speckmann C, Espanol T, Shcherbina A, Hanson C, Litzman J, Routes J, Wong M, Fuleihan R, Seneviratne SL, Small TN, Janda A, Bezrodnik L, Seger R, Raccio AG, Edgar JD, Chou J, Abbott JK, van Montfrans J, Gonzalez-Granado LI, Bunin N, Kutukculer N, Gray P, Seminario G, Pasic S, Aquino V, Wysocki C, Abolhassani H, Grunebaum E, Dorsey M, Costa Carvalho BT, Condino-Neto A, Cunningham-Rundles C, Knutsen AP, Sleasman J, Chapel H, Ochs HD, Filipovich A, Cowan M, Gennery A, Cant A, Notarangelo LD, Roifman C J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. 2016 Sep

Safety, pharmacokinetics and efficacy of palifermin in children and adolescents with acute leukemias undergoing myeloablative therapy and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium Trial.

Morris J, Rudebeck M, Neudorf S, Moore T, Duerst R, Shah AJ, Graham M, Aquino V, Morris C, Olsson B Biol. Blood Marrow Transplant. 2016 Mar

• American Academy of Pediatrics (1989)
• American Society of Clinical Oncology (1996)
• American Society of Hematology (1997)
• Children's Oncology Group
• Dallas County Medical Society and Texas Medical Association (1996)
• Society of Pediatric Research (2002)