Nihal Bakeer, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Hematology)
Pediatric Hematologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer- Ambulatory EHR, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
HUB for Clinical Collaboration-13, Room# 13565
3500 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
HUB for Clinical Collaboration-13, Room# 13565
3500 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-983-1103
Education:
MBBS
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, 2006.
Permanent linkMBBS
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, 2006.
Description of Clinical Expertise
My academic interests:- Point-of-care musculoskeletal ultrasound in hemophilia and joint health
- Hemostasis and stroke/thrombosis
- Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) and anticoagulation in complex vascular anomalies
- Clinical Informatics with special interest and expertise in clinical workflows, outcomes research, electronic health records, health equity and health information management
Description of Research Expertise
Hemophilic arthropathy, hemostasis/thrombosis, artificial intelligence in joint imaging, clinical informatics, pediatric stroke and thrombosis.Selected Publications
Oliver O, Britt AD, Borst AJ, Goldmuntz E, Bakeer N, Lang S, Fuller S, Vossough A, Beslow LA: Clinical Phenotypes of a Pediatric Cohort with GDF2-related Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia. Journal of Clinical Medicine May 2025.Tyrrell PN, Alvarez-Román MT, Bakeer N, Brand-Staufer B, Jiménez-Yuste V, Kras S, Martinoli C, Mendez M, Nagao A, Ozelo M, Ricciardi JBS, Zak M, Roth J: Utilizing artificial intelligence for the detection of hemarthrosis in hemophilia using point-of-care ultrasonography Res Pract Thromb Haemost October 2024.
Lundin B, Bakeer N, Dunn AL, Gibikote S, Keshava SN, Ljung RCR, Papakonstantinou O, Pergantou H, Strike K, Drygalski AV, Zhang N, Babyn P, Dover S, Doria AS: International Prophylaxis Study Group (IPSG) haemophilia joint MRI scale version 2.0. Haemophilia May 2024.
Bakeer N, Saied W, Gavrilovski A,Bailey C: Haemophilic arthropathy: Diagnosis, management, and aging patient considerations. Haemophilia April 2024.
Jaffray J, Mosha M, Branchford B, Goldenberg NA, Silvey M, Croteau SE, Fargo JH, Cooper JD, Bakeer N, Stillings A, Krava E, Young G, Amankwah EK: Corrigendum to 'Evaluation of Venous Thromboembolism Risk Factors Reveals Subtype Heterogenicity in Children with Central Venous Catheters: A Multi-Center Study from the CHAT Consortium. J Thromb Haemost 21(12): 3658, Dec 2023.
Jaffray J, Mosha M, Branchford B, Goldenberg NA, Silvey M, Croteau SE, Fargo JH, Cooper JD, Bakeer N, Stillings A, Krava E, Young G, Amankwah EK.: Evaluation of venous thromboembolism risk factors reveals subtype heterogenicity in children with central venous catheters: a multicenter study from the Children's Hospital Acquired Thrombosis consortium. J Thromb Haemost 21(9): 2441-2450, Sep 2023.
Kumar R, Bakeer N, Dawson J, Al-Mughairy A, Stanek J, Dunn A, Male C, Chan A, Williams S.: Impact of SERPINC1 mutation on thrombotic phenotype in children with congenital antithrombin deficiency-first analysis of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis pediatric antithrombin deficiency database and biorepository. J Thromb Haemost 21(5): 1248-1257, May 2023.
Feldman SJ, Beslow LA, Felling RJ, Malone LA, Waak M, Fraser S, Bakeer N, Lee JEM, Sherman V, Howard MM, Cavanaugh BA, Westmacott R, Jordan LC.: Consensus-Based Evaluation of Outcome Measures in Pediatric Stroke Care: A Toolkit. Pediatr Neurol 141(1): 118-132, Apr 2023.
Abrams CM, Jaffray J, Stillings A, Branchford BR, Young G, Goldenberg NA, Abajas YL; CHAT Consortium Investigators; VTE Risk Factors and Thromboprophylaxis Working Group of the Pediatric and Neonatal Thrombosis and Hemostasis Subcommittee of the ISTH SSC; Fargo J, Crary S, Kumar R, Woods G, Narang S, Cooper J, Silvey M, Garland K, Mahajerin A, Luchtman-Jones L, Torres M, Wright J, Pahl K, Armstrong K, Braunreiter C, Bakeer N, Sochet A, Hogan M, Gupta S, Knoll C, Hege K, Schaefer B, Panigrahi A, Thornburg C, Shimano K, Ahuja S, Weyand A, Boucher A, Abajas Y, Subbaswamy A, Khan O, Druzgal C, Maida D, Wheeler A, Malec L, Branchford B, Kucine NE, Prozora S.: Current practices in pediatric hospital-acquired thromboembolism: Survey of the Children's Hospital Acquired Thrombosis (CHAT) Consortium. Res Pract Thromb Haemost 6(1): e12793, Dec 2022.
Beslow LA, Agner SC, Santoro JD, Ram D, Wilson JL, Harrar D, Appavu B, Fraser SM, Rossor T, Torres MD, Kossorotoff M, Zuñiga Zambrano YC, Hernández-Chávez M, Hassanein SMA, Zafeiriou D, Dowling MM, Kopyta I, Stence NV, Bernard TJ, Dlamini N; International Pediatric Stroke Study Group.: International Prevalence and Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 in Childhood Arterial Ischemic Stroke During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Stroke 53(8): 2497-2503, Aug 2022 Notes: Investigator.