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

Featured Publications

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)