Madhuri Vusirikala, M.D.
Professor

Medical School

Lady Hardinge Medical College, India (1991)

Internship

Delhi University/Maulana Azad Medical College, India (1993), Internal Medicine

Residency

SUNY, Syracuse (1996), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

University of Pittsburgh (1999), Hematology Oncology

Advanced Fellowship

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2000), Bone Marrow Transplant

• acute and chronic graft versus host disease
• acute leukemias
• allogeneic stem cell transplant in hematologic disorders
• Other malignant hematologic disorders-lymphomas, MDS, MPD, MF, myeloma
• survivorship after stem cell transplant

Featured Publications

Panobinostat monotherapy and combination therapy in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, results from two clinical trials.

Schlenk R, Krauter J, Raffoux E, Kreuzer KA, Schaich M, Noens L, Pabst T, Vusirikala M, Bouscary D, Spencer A, Candoni A, Sierra Gil J, Berkowitz N, Weber HJ, Ottmann O Haematologica 2017 Oct

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.

Soiffer RJ, Kim HT, McGuirk J, Horwitz ME, Johnston L, Patnaik MM, Rybka W, Artz A, Porter DL, Shea TC, Boyer MW, Maziarz RT, Shaughnessy PJ, Gergis U, Safah H, Reshef R, DiPersio JF, Stiff PJ, Vusirikala M, Szer J, Holter J, Levine JD, Martin PJ, Pidala JA, Lewis ID, Ho VT, Alyea EP, Ritz J, Glavin F, Westervelt P, Jagasia MH, Chen YB J. Clin. Oncol. 2017 Oct JCO2017758177

Novel Application of Extracorporeal Photopheresis as Treatment of Graft-versus-Host Disease Following Liver Transplantation.

Brown TJ, Gentry C, Hammer ST, Hwang CS, Vusirikala M, Patel PA, Matevosyan K, Tujios SR, Mufti AR, Collins RH ACG Case Rep J 2017 4 e48

PTHrP-Induced Refractory Malignant Hypercalcemia in a Patient With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Responding to Denosumab.

Salahudeen AA, Gupta A, Jones JC, Cowan RW, Vusirikala M, Kwong C, Naina HV Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk 2015 Jun

Successful treatment of relapsed and refractory extramedullary acute promyelocytic leukemia with tamibarotene.

Naina HV, Levitt D, Vusirikala M, Anderson LD, Scaglioni PP, Kirk A, Collins RH J. Clin. Oncol. 2011 Jun 29 18 e534-6

Hematogone hyperplasia in copper deficiency.

Sutton L, Vusirikala M, Chen W Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 2009 Aug 132 2 191-9; quiz 307

Valacyclovir for the prevention of cytometalovirus infection after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: a single institution retrospective cohort analysis.

Vusirikala M, Wolff SN, Stein RS, Brandt SJ, Morgan DS, Greer JP, Schuening FG, Dummer JS, Goodman SA Bone Marrow Transplant August 2001 28 265-70

Dose-Intensification and Stem Cell Transplantation (SCT) for histologically transformed Low-grade Follicular Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL): A single center experience

Vusirikala M, Brandt S, Chinratanalab W, Greer JP, Jagasia M, Kassim A, Mineshi S, Morgan DS, Ruffner K, Friedrich SG, Shyr Y, Goodman SA Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2004 10 192

A phase II trial of high dose chemotherapy and conccurrent rituximab followed by autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for treatment of relapsed CD20 positive B-cell Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Vusirikala M, Stein RS, Brandt S, Morgan D, Greer J, Jagasia M, Kassim A, Schuening F, Goodman S Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2002 8 101

 Featured Books

Supportive Care in Hematologic Malignancies. In Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, 12th edition.

Vusirikala, Madhuri (2009). Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Supportive Care in Hematologic Malignancies. In Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, 11th edition.

Vusirikala, Madhuri (2003). Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• American Society of Bone Marrow Transplant (2010)
• American Society of Hematology (1998)