I grew up in Indore, India where I attended Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College obtaining a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB, BS) in 1981. I received my Doctor of Medicine, (MD) in Pathology, from the prestigious Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh, India in 1985. I remained at this institution, becoming an Assistant Professor of Hematology in the Department of Pathology, until I brought my wife and two sons to the USA in 1992. We came to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I had accepted a position as Fellow in Transfusion Medicine at The Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin. Thereafter, I completed a US Residency in Clinical Pathology at the Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York in 1997 before accepting the positions of Associate Director of Blood Bank and Medical Director of Coagulation Laboratory at the University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio as well as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. I held these positions from 1997 to 2000 when I came to UT Southwestern as Associate Professor of Pathology and Director of Transfusion Medicine and Coagulation Laboratory. Here I have developed an Apheresis Program, which offers clinical treatment to patients at Parkland Memorial Hospital, and Zale Lipshy University Hospitals and Children's Medical Center of Dallas.
My research and clinical activities are in Transfusion Medicine and hemostasis, which are interdependent subspecialties of medicine. Knowledge of hemostasis provides an advantage in the management of patients with complex coagulopathy requiring blood component therapy. Apheresis is my bread and butter (of course fat free!). These apheresis treatments include plasmapheresis, red cell exchange, photopheresis and lipid adsorption. My clinical and basic research interests include Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Hematopoietic Stem cell transplantation. I love studying hypercoagulability (easier to write than try to say it!) and platelet function disorders. I enjoy teaching while learning new things in ever-dynamic fields of Hemostasis and Transfusion Medicine where there is never a dull moment.
