Kavita Desai, MD

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Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Oncology)
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Hematology-Oncology
3401 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
B.S (Neuroscience)
University of Michigan, 2007.
M.D. (Medicine)
St. George's University School of Medicine, 2012.
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Selected Publications

Stephanie Brosius, Kavita Desai and Amish Shah: Brain Tumors. Netter's Pediatrics , 2nd Edition. Rebecca Tenney Soeiro, MD, MSEd and Erin Pete Devon, MD (eds.). Elsevier, May 2023 Notes: Chapter.

Kavita Desai and Michael J Fisher: Germ Cell Tumors. Diabetes Insipidus in Children: A Pocket Guide. Springer International Publishing, Page: 69-81, 2021.

Zapata CP, Cuglievan B, Zapata CM, Olavarrieta R, Raskin S, Desai K, and De Angulo G.: PET/CT versus bone marrow biopsy in the initial evaluation of bone marrow infiltration in various pediatric malignancies. Pediatr Blood Cancer 65(2): doi: 10.1002, Feb 2018 Notes: epub.

Desai, KA: Venous Thromboembolism Recurrence and Thrombolysis/ Tumor Board Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, UTSW. Presentation Nov 2017.

Desai, KA: Local Control in Ewings Sarcoma/ Tumor Board. Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, UTSW. Presentation Sept 2017.

Desai, KA: The Gray Zone; a case of gray zone lymphoma in a pediatric patient/ Tumor Board Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, UTSW. Presentation May 2017.

Desai, KA: X-MEN Disease/ Tumor Board Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, UTSW. Presentation Feb 2017.

Desai, KA: If at first you don’t succeed: Recurrent graft failure in a SCT patient/ Tumor Board Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, UTSW. Presentation Oct 2016.

Desai, KA: Young man with Iron Deficiency Anemia suspect for Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia/ Tumor Board Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, UTSW. Presentation Aug 2016.

Department of Pediatrics, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. Presentation: Spherocytosis presenting as choledocolithiasis/ Morning Report Desai, KA 2014.

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