Ksenya Shliakhtsitsava, M.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Endowed Title Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care Schools Medical School Departments Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Ksenya Shliakhtsitsava, M.D. M.A.S., is a UT Southwestern physician with the Cancer and Blood Disorder Program at Children's Health. She earned her medical degree at the Belarusian State Medical University in Minsk, Belarus, in 2006, and after completing the residency in her home country, she relocated to the United States. Dr. Shliakhtsitsava then completed her residency in General Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco-Fresno in 2014, followed by the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellowship training at the University of California, San Diego in 2017. Additionally, in 2018, Dr. Shliakhtsitsava completed the master's program in clinical research at the University of California, San Diego. She is a full member of the Children's Oncology Group, takes care of patients with cancer, and is passionate about fertility preservation and survivorship care. She is interested in studying late effects in pediatric cancer survivors, educating patients and families, and helping patients with cancer navigate through treatment and survivors adjust to life after cancer treatment. Education Medical School Belarusian State Medical University, Belarus (2006) Residency University of California San Francisco - Fresno (2014), Pediatrics Fellowship University of California, San Diego (2017), Pediatric Hematology/oncology Other Post Graduate Training University of California, San Diego (2018) Graduate School University of California, San Diego (2018), Clinical Research Research Interest Cancer survivorship Fertility preservation Leukemia and lymphoma Long term late effects among childhood cancer survivors Reproductive health among patient with cancer and cancer survivors Publications Patient-parent perspectives in designing pediatric venous thromboembolism research: A qualitative study Fuksman A, Shliakhtsitsava K, Nguyen G, Umaretiya PJ, Stutzman S, Sida D, Rajpurkar M, Khurram F, Edwards H, Zia A Thrombosis research 2026 Apr 260 Reply to: Comment on: The Development of a Dynamic Electronic Health Records Database for Childhood Cancer Survivors at a Single Institution: 30 Years of Data for Clinical and Research Applications Shliakhtsitsava K, Eary R, Hughes A, Betts AC, Cochran C, Eshelman-Kent D, Lawrence S, McCaskill T, Packard C, Bowers DC Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2026 Jan 73 Impact of a Reproductive Health Survivorship Care Plan on Fertility, Pregnancy Concerns, and Accessing Reproductive Healthcare Among Young Nulliparous Breast Cancer Survivors Shliakhtsitsava K, Stark SS, Prasad T, Boles S, Chingos D, Ehren J, Gorman JR, Romero SA, Mao JJ, Nathan P, Armenian SH, Su HI Cancer Reports 2026 Jan 9 The Development of a Dynamic Electronic Health Records Database for Childhood Cancer Survivors at a Single Institution: 30 Years of Data for Clinical and Research Applications Shliakhtsitsava K, Eary R, Hughes A, Betts AC, Cochran C, Eshelman-Kent D, Lawrence S, McCaskill T, Packard C, Bowers DC Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2025 Oct 72 Age-appropriate needs-based care in an onco-primary care survivorship program for survivors of childhood, adolescent and young adult, and adult cancers Eary R, Betts AC, Hughes A, Lawrence S, Shliakhtsitsava K, Thakur B, Ho E, Balasubramanian BA, Woods S, Shay LA, Hall B Journal of Cancer Survivorship 2025 A comprehensive pediatric cardio-oncology program: a single institution approach to cardiovascular care for pediatric patients with cancer and childhood cancer survivors Hernandez NB, Shliakhtsitsava K, Tolani D, Cochran C, Butts R, Bonifacio J, Journey E, Oppenheim JN, Pennant SG, Arnold K, McCaskill T, Bowers DC Cardio-Oncology 2024 Dec 10 Association of platinum-based chemotherapy with live birth and infertility in female survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer Zhou B, Kwan B, Desai MJ, Nalawade V, Henk J, Viravalli N, Murphy JD, Nathan PC, Ruddy KJ, Shliakhtsitsava K, Su HI, Whitcomb BW Fertility and sterility 2024 Jun 121 1020-1030 Improving vitamin D testing and supplementation in children with newly diagnosed cancer: A quality improvement initiative at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego Shliakhtsitsava K, Fisher ES, Trovillion EM, Bush K, Kuo DJ, Newfield RS, Thornburg CD, Roberts W, Aristizabal P Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2021 Nov 68 Mental Health Outcomes in Adolescent and Young Adult Female Cancer Survivors of a Sexual Minority Desai MJ, Gold RS, Jones CK, Din H, Dietz AC, Shliakhtsitsava K, Martinez ME, Vaida F, Su HC Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology 2021 Apr 10 148-155 Psychosocial stress and ovarian function in adolescent and young adult cancer survivors Kim J, Whitcomb BW, Kwan B, Zava D, Sluss PM, Dietz A, Shliakhtsitsava K, Romero SA, Natarajan L, Su HI Human Reproduction 2021 Feb 36 405-414 Results 1-10 of 16 1 2 Next Last Books Featured Books Fertility Preservation in a Premenarchal Girl. In Textbook of Oncofertility Research and Practice Shliakhtsitsava K, Webb Fox C, Su HI (2019). Honors & Awards Dedman Family Scholar in Clinical Care (2019) INQUIRY Resident and Fellow Best in Class Award for Quality Improvement ProjectRady Children's Hospital - San Diego (2017) Merit Scholarship Award, Master of Advanced Studies in Clinical ResearchUniversity of California, San Diego (2017) Clinical Research Training Institute Career-Enhancement AwardAmerican Society of Hematology (2016) Professional Associations/Affiliations Amereican Academy of Pediatrics (2010) American Board of Pediatrics (2014) American Society of Clinical Oncology (2015) American Society of Hematology (2014) American Society of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology (2014) Belarusian Association of General Practitioners (2006) European Hematology Association (2015) Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society (2016)
