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Amrita Krishnan,

Hematologist

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Location
City of Hope Orange County Lennar Foundation Cancer Center
1000 Five Point
Irvine, CA 92618
Newport Beach
1601 Avocado Avenue
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Specialties
Hematologic Oncology
Education
Medical school:
Degrees

  • 1990, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, M.D., Medicine

  • 1988, Union College, Schenectady, NY, B.S., Biology/Modern Languages

Fellowship

  • 1996 - 1997, Clinical Fellow, Bone Marrow Transplantation City of Hope

  • 1993 - 1996, Clinical Fellow, Hematology-oncology Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard University Boston MA

  • 1993 - 1996, Clinical Fellow Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School Boston MA

  • 1995 - 1996, Research Fellow Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Principal Investigator, J. Ritz Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard University, Boston MA

  • 1995, Clinical Fellow, Bone Marrow Transplantation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington Seattle WA

  • 1995, Clinical Fellow, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Solid Tumor and Lymphoma Autologous Marrow Program Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA

Residency

  • 1991 - 1993, Strong Memorial Hospital University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Professional Experience

  • 2022-present, Executive Medical Director, Hematology, City of Hope Orange County

  • 2021-present, Professor, Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

  • 2015-present, Director, Judy and Bernard Briskin Center for Myeloma, City of Hope, Duarte, CA

  • 2004-2018, Associate Director, Medical Education and Training, Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope

  • 1997-present, Staff Physician, Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation City of Hope

Academic Appointments
  • Executive Medical Director, Hematology, City of Hope Orange County
  • Director, Judy and Bernard Briskin Multiple Myeloma Center
  • Professor, Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
About Me
Equally driven as a clinician and researcher, Amrita Krishnan, M.D., was instrumental in bringing successful transplant therapy to HIV patients with lymphoma, when many believed such patients were too weak to tolerate the procedure.
 
“We have patients who had been told to get their affairs in order,” she says. “Years later, they are still here.”
 
Dr. Krishnan now directs the Judy and Bernard Briskin Center for Multiple Myeloma Research at City of Hope, seeking to make gains in one of the most rapidly changing areas in cancer research.
 
A key member of the City of Hope team since 1996, Dr. Krishnan trained at The University of Rochester, Beth Israel Hospital, Fred Hutchinson Research Cancer Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute.  Serves as a steering committee member on the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and the North American representative to the International Myeloma Society, former chair of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network myeloma committee and is the Co-Chair of several of the largest myeloma transplant trials in the U.S.
 
Her research interests are in the development of new drugs for relapsed myeloma and understanding mechanisms of disease resistance.
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