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  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
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Overview

Smita Bhatia is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Oncology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their work covers a range of main research topics including:

  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
  • Chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity and mitigation

Among their frequent coauthors are:

  • Wendy Landier
  • Lindsey Hageman
  • Saro H. Armenian
  • Gregory T. Armstrong
  • Melissa M. Hudson

Publications by Smita Bhatia often appear in journals such as:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Blood
  • Cancer
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • JCO Oncology Practice

Notable recent papers by Smita Bhatia include:

  • Frequency of Pathogenic Germline Variants in Cancer-Susceptibility Genes in Patients With Osteosarcoma (2020, JAMA Oncology)
  • Rural-Urban Disparities in Cancer Outcomes: Opportunities for Future Research (2022, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute)
  • Chronic Comorbidities Among Survivors of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer (2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology)
  • Massively parallel variant characterization identifies NUDT15 alleles associated with thiopurine toxicity (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Long-term Follow-up Care for Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivors (2021, PEDIATRICS)

Smita Bhatia is recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Predicting Chemotherapy Toxicity in Older Adults With Cancer: A Prospective Multicenter Study

    Arti Hurria;Kayo Togawa;Supriya G. Mohile;Cynthia Owusu

  • Breast Cancer and Other Second Neoplasms after Childhood Hodgkin's Disease

    Smita Bhatia;Leslie L. Robison;Odile Oberlin;Mark Greenberg

  • Development of Risk-Based Guidelines for Pediatric Cancer Survivors: The Children's Oncology Group Long-Term Follow-Up Guidelines From the Children's Oncology Group Late Effects Committee and Nursing Discipline

    Wendy Landier;Smita Bhatia;Debra A. Eshelman;Katherine J. Forte

  • High Risk of Subsequent Neoplasms Continues With Extended Follow-Up of Childhood Hodgkin’s Disease: Report From the Late Effects Study Group

    Smita Bhatia;Yutaka Yasui;Leslie L. Robison;Jillian M. Birch

  • Reduction in Late Mortality among 5-Year Survivors of Childhood Cancer.

    Gregory T. Armstrong;Yan Chen;Yutaka Yasui;Wendy Leisenring

  • Late mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation and functional status of long-term survivors: Report from the Bone Marrow Transplant Survivor study

    Smita Bhatia;Liton Francisco;Andrea Carter;Can Lan Sun

  • American Society of Clinical Oncology Statement: Achieving High-Quality Cancer Survivorship Care

    Mary S. McCabe;Smita Bhatia;Kevin C. Oeffinger;Gregory H. Reaman

  • Malignant neoplasms following bone marrow transplantation.

    Smita Bhatia;Norma K.C. Ramsay;Michael Steinbuch;Kathryn E. Dusenbery

  • Cardiovascular Disease Among Survivors of Adult-Onset Cancer: A Community-Based Retrospective Cohort Study.

    Saro H. Armenian;Lanfang Xu;Bonnie Ky;Canlan Sun

  • Pleuropulmonary blastoma: a clinicopathologic study of 50 cases.

    J R Priest;M B McDermott;S Bhatia;J Watterson

  • Inherited NUDT15 Variant Is a Genetic Determinant of Mercaptopurine Intolerance in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

    Jun J. Yang;Wendy Landier;Wenjian Yang;Chengcheng Liu

  • Clonal Hematopoiesis Associated With Adverse Outcomes After Autologous Stem-Cell Transplantation for Lymphoma

    Christopher J Gibson;R Coleman Lindsley;Vatche Tchekmedyian;Brenton G Mar

  • Comorbidity-Age Index: A Clinical Measure of Biologic Age Before Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

    Mohamed L. Sorror;Rainer F. Storb;Brenda M. Sandmaier;Richard T. Maziarz

  • Multiplex assessment of protein variant abundance by massively parallel sequencing

    Kenneth A. Matreyek;Lea M. Starita;Jason J. Stephany;Beth Martin

  • Diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular events in survivors of hematopoietic cell transplantation: a report from the bone marrow transplantation survivor study

    K. Scott Baker;Kirsten K Ness;Julia Steinberger;Andrea Carter

  • A worldwide collaboration to harmonize guidelines for the long‐term follow‐up of childhood and young adult cancer survivors: A report from the international late effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group

    Leontien C.M. Kremer;Renée L. Mulder;Kevin C. Oeffinger;Smita Bhatia

  • Anthracycline-Related Cardiomyopathy After Childhood Cancer: Role of Polymorphisms in Carbonyl Reductase Genes—A Report From the Children's Oncology Group

    Javier G. Blanco;Can Lan Sun;Wendy Landier;Lu Chen

  • Solid Cancers After Bone Marrow Transplantation

    Smita Bhatia;Andrew D. Louie;Ravi Bhatia;Margaret R. O’Donnell

  • Nonadherence to Oral Mercaptopurine and Risk of Relapse in Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group

    Smita Bhatia;Wendy Landier;Muyun Shangguan;Lindsey Hageman

  • Predictors of therapy-related leukemia and myelodysplasia following autologous transplantation for lymphoma: an assessment of risk factors.

    Amrita Krishnan;Smita Bhatia;Marilyn L. Slovak;Daniel A. Arber

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie L. Robison
Leslie L. Robison St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Stephen J. Forman
Stephen J. Forman City Of Hope National Medical Center
Melissa M. Hudson
Melissa M. Hudson St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Gregory T. Armstrong
Gregory T. Armstrong St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Wendy Leisenring
Wendy Leisenring Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Daniel J. Weisdorf
Daniel J. Weisdorf University of Minnesota
Ravi Bhatia
Ravi Bhatia University of Alabama at Birmingham
Kevin C. Oeffinger
Kevin C. Oeffinger Duke University
Joseph P. Neglia
Joseph P. Neglia University of Minnesota
Mary V. Relling
Mary V. Relling St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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