Amena Usmani, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Medical School

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (2011)

Residency

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2015), Anatomic & Clinical Pathology

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2016), Blood Banking/transfusion Medicine

• Solid Organ Transplantation
• Therapeutic Apheresis
• Therapeutic Apheresis in the Treatment of Solid Organ Rejection
• Therapeutic Apheresis in Transplant Desensitization

Featured Publications

Comparison of low fixed dose versus standard-dose rituximab to treat thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in the acute phase and preemptively during remission.

Reddy MS, Hofmann S, Shen YM, Nagalla S, Rambally S, Usmani A, Sarode R, Transfus. Apher. Sci. 2020 Jul 102885

Excellent response to therapeutic plasma exchange in myasthenia gravis patients irrespective of antibody status.

Usmani A, Kwan L, Wahib-Khalil D, Trivedi J, Nations S, Sarode R J Clin Apher 2019 Feb

Mathematical calculation of lifespan of transfused RBCs in sickle cell disease patients.

Kim J, Usmani A, De Simone N, Sarode R Transfus. Apher. Sci. 2017 Nov

HHV8-negative effusion-based lymphoma: a series of 17 cases at a single institution

Usmani A, Walts AE, Patel S, Alkan S, Kitahara S Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology 2015 4 1 37-43

 Featured Books

Obesity. In Clinical and Pathological Aspects of Skin Diseases in Endocrine, Metabolic, Nutritional, and Deposition Disease

Linder JM, Usmani AF, Miteva M, Ricordi C, Romanelli P (2010). Springer

• Physician-in-Training Award, American Society of Cytopathology
  (2014)

• AABB (2018)
• American Society for Apheresis (2016)
• American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (2016)
• College of American Pathologists (2011)