Clinical Focus

• Hemoglobinopathy Transplant (Thalassemia & Sickle Cell).
• Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome (Aplastic Anaemia / Fanconi Anaemia).
• Haploidentical Transplant.
• Graft versus Host Disease.

Awards

Achievements

• Done more than 1000 Allogenic Bone Marrow Transplantation and 300 Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation independently. The majority of patients were Thalassemia Major, Acute Leukemia (Myeloid & Lymphoid), Aplastic Anemia Multiple Myelomas, and Lymphoma. 
• Perform transplants on both Pediatric and Adult patients on routine basis since training in Hematology includes all age groups.  
• Started largest Bone Marrow Transplant program in North India at Dr. B. L. Kapur Memorial Hospital. He has done more than 1200 stem cell transplants at this unit. 
• Centre does Match sibling donor and match unrelated donor Allogenic transplant, Autologous transplant, Cord blood transplant & Haplo Identical transplant regularly.
• Have conducted seminars, delivered guest lectures, and presented scientific research papers across the globe mainly in the USA, Canada, China, Russia, Uzbekistan, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Nepal, Bangladesh, Singapore, Vietnam, Fiji, Azerbaijan and Ukraine, and Japan.
   

Research and Publications

• Sharma SK, Handoo A, Choudhary D, Dhamija G, Gupta N. Severe gastrointestinal mucositis following high dose Melphalan therapy for multiple myeloma. World J Gastroenterol. 2013 Feb 7; 19(5):784-5.
• Sharma SK, Choudhary D, Handoo A, Kharya G, Gupta N, Pavecha P, Chadha R. Gelatinous transformation of bone marrow following the use of dasatinib in a patient with philadelphia chromosome positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leuk Res Reports 2013; 2: 7–8.
• Choudhary D, Sharma SK, Gupta N, Kharya G, Pavecha P, Handoo A, Setia R, Katewa S. Treosulfan-thiotepa-fludarabine-based conditioning regimen for allogenic transplantation in patient with thalassemia major : a single center experience from north India. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2013 Mar; 19(3):492-5.
• Monica Jain, Anil Handoo, Dharma R Choudhary, Atul Bhasin. Flow Cytometry: A Rapid and Robust Adjuvant Technique for Pathological Diagnosis. Turk J Hematol 2012; 29: 82-84.
• Rangan A, Choudhary DR, Sinha S, Handoo A, Bhargava M. Secondary Myelofibrosis in a case of Aplastic Anaemia, a case report. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research [serial online] 2009 June [cited: 2009 June 1]; 3:1587-1590.
• Choudhary DR, Naithani R, Panigrahi I, Kumar R, Mahapatra M, Pati HP, Saxena R, Choudhry VP . Effect of wheat grass therapy on transfusion requirement in thalassaemia major. Indian J Pediatr.2009 Feb 10. {Epub ahead of print}
• Choudhary DR, Naithani R, Mahapatra M, Kumar R, Mishra P, Saxena R. Intracranial hemorrhage in childhood immune thrombocytopenic purpura. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2008 Dec 4. [Epub ahead of print]
• Choudhary DR, Naithani R, Mahapatra M, Kumar R, Mishra P, Saxena R. Efficacy of Cyclosporine as a single agent therapy in chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Haematologica 2008 93: e61-e62
• Dixit A, Chatterjee T, Mishra P, Kannan M, Choudhary DR, Mahapatra M, Choudhry VP, Saxena R. Disseminated intravascular coagulation in acute leukemia at presentation and during induction therapy.
• Clin Appl Thromb Hemost. 2007 Jul; 13(3):292-8.

Memberships

• Member of Medical Council of India.
• Member of Delhi Medical Council.
• Member of Rajasthan Medical Council.
• Life Member Indian Society of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine