Dr. Gaurav Kharya

Senior Consultant - Paediatric Hematologist

Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi

Dr. Gaurav Kharya is a Paediatric Haematologist with over 15 years of experience. In addition to pediatric acute leukemias, lymphomas, and solid malignancies, he has a keen interest in hematopoietic stem cell transplants, especially those involving alternative donors. He is credited for doing the first haploidentical bone marrow transplant for sickle cell disease in India.

He is also recognized for doing in-vitro TCR alpha beta CD 19 depleted haploidentical BMT in a 4-month-old baby suffering from severe combined immunodeficiency, which is the smallest child transplant in the country so far. Moreover, he has performed over 600 bone marrow transplants.

Speciality

Bone Marrow Transplant

Education

MBBS - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur
DCH - Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur
DNB - Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
Fellowship The Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Areas of Expertise

Bone Marrow Transplant
Cancer Screening (Preventive)
Oncology
Organ Transplant
Pediatric Hemato-oncology
Bone Marrow Transplant

Working

Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi

Awards And Honours

Presentation – Clinical features of proven cases of the Japanese Encephalitis epidemic 2003
PEDICON 2004 – 2003
First to perform haploidentical BMT for sickle cell disease in India
Presented many papers at national and international conferences
Published many papers in national and international journals

Memberships

Life Member Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP)
Life Member Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (PHO) Chapter of IAP
Member of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP)