Ashok Srinivasan, MD

Ashok Srinivasan, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

Departments

Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy

Contact Information

Ashok Srinivasan, MD
Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy
MS 1130, Room I-3306
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Email: ashok.srinivasan@stjude.org
Phone: (901) 595-4720
FAX: (901) 595-7944

Education

MB, BS - Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
MD - Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India (Pediatrics)

Training
Pediatric residency - Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Fellowship pediatric hematology/oncology - Mattel Children’s Hospital, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Fellowship pediatric infectious disease - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Board certified Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Board certified Pediatric Infectious Disease


Research Interests


Selected Publications

Srinivasan A, Wang C, Srivastava DK, Burnette K, Shenep JL, Leung W, and Hayden RT. Timeline, epidemiology and risk factors for bacterial, fungal and viral infections in children and adolescents after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biology Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2012 (in press).

Srinivasan A, Flynn P, Gu Z, Hartford C, Lovins R, Sunkara A, Srivastava DK, Leung W, and Hayden RT. Detection of respiratory viruses in asymptomatic children undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2012 (in press).

Srinivasan A, Kasow KA, Cross S, Parrish M, Wang C, Srivastava DK, Cai X, Panetta JC, and Leung W. Phase I study of the tolerability and pharmacokinetics of palifermin in children undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biology Blood and Marrow Transplantation 18(8):1309-1314, 2012.

Srinivasan A, Wang C, Yang J, Shenep JL, Leung WH and Hayden RT. Symptomatic parainfluenza virus infections in children undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biology Blood and Marrow Transplantation 17(10):1520-1527, 2011.

Srinivasan A, Wang C, Yang J, Inaba H, Shenep JL, Leung WH and Hayden RT. Parainfluenza virus infections in children with hematologic malignancies. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 30(10):855-859, 2011.

Srinivasan A, Bankowski MJ, Seifried SE, Jinno S, Perkins R, Singh S, Ying S, Tice AD, Kim W, Hayden RT. A probe-based method for confirmation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and detection of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin and TST virulence genes. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 70(4):541-543, 2011.

Srinivasan A, Seifried S, Zhu L, Srivastava DK, Perkins R, Shenep JL, Bankowski MJ, Hayden RT. Increasing prevalence of nasal and rectal colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in children with cancer. Pediatric Blood and Cancer 55(7):1317-22, 2010.

Srinivasan A, Seifried S, Zhu L, Bitar W, Srivastava DK, Shenep JL, Bankowski MJ, Flynn PM and Hayden RT. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections in children and young adults infected with HIV. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses 25 (12):1219-1224, 2009.

Srinivasan A, Seifried S, Zhu L, Srivastava DK, Flynn PM, Bankowski MJ, Shenep JL, Hayden RT. Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in pediatric patients with cancer. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 29(2):172-174, 2009.

Srinivasan A, Seifried S, Zhu L, Srivastava DK, Flynn PM, Shenep JL, Bankowski MJ, Hayden RT. Panton-Valentine Leukocidin positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children with cancer. Pediatric Blood and Cancer 53(7):1216-20, 2009.

Srinivasan A, Kleiman MB, Debelenko L, Stokes DC, De Vincenzo J, Wheat LJ. False-negative Histoplasma antigen in acute pulmonary histoplasmosis: The value of urinary concentration by ultrafiltration and heat denaturation of serum proteins in detection of Histoplasma antigen. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 28 (5):447-9, 2009.

Srinivasan A, Wickes BL, Romanelli AM, Debelenko L, Rubnitz JE, Sutton DA, Thompson EH, Fothergill AW, Rinaldi MG, Hayden RT, Shenep JL. Cutaneous infection caused by Macrophomina phaseolina in a child with acute myeloid leukemia. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 47(6):1969-72, 2009.

Hayek M, Srinivasan A. Amifostine protects against cisplatin induced nephrotoxicity in a child with medulloblastoma. Pediatr Hematol Oncol 20(3):253, Erratum21(3), 2003.

Hayek M, Srinivasan A. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting with lactic acidosis and renal tubular dysfunction. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 25(6):488-490, 2003.

Srinivasan A. Primary intracranial extra-osseous Ewing’s sarcoma. Austral-Asian Journal of Cancer 2 (3):25-27, 2003.

Green LA, Gambhir SS, Srinivasan A, Banerjee PK, Hoh CK, Cherry SR, Sharfstein S, Barrio JR, Herschman HR, Phelps ME. Noninvasive methods for quantitating blood time-activity curves from mouse PET images obtained with fluorine-18-fluoro-deoxyglucose. J Nucl Med 39(4):729-734, 1998.

Srinivasan A, Gambhir SS, Barrio JR, Wu L, Namavari M, Satyamurthi N, Sharfstein S, Cherry SR, Green A, Berk A, Phelps ME, Herschman HR. A PET reporter gene (PRG)/PET reporter probe (PRP) technology for repeatedly imaging gene expression in living animals. J Nucl Med 37(5):420P, 1996.

Patwari AK, Bisht S, Srinivasan A, Chattopadhyay D. Aetiology of pneumonia in hospitalized children. J Trop Pediatr 42(1):15-20, 1996.

Patwari AK, Srinivasan A, Diwan N, Aneja S, Anand VK, Peshin S. Rotavirus as an aetiological organism in acute watery diarrhoea in Delhi children: Reappraisal of clinical and epidemiological characteristics. J Trop Pediatr 40:214-218, 1994.

 

Last update: August 2012