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Prakash Satwani MBBS, MD
Director of Pediatric Cellular Therapy Program
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
USA
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Dr. Prakash Satwani is a Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center in the division of Pediatric Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Dr. Satwani’s clinical research is focused on organ injury, healthcare utilization and late effects among children undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Dr. Satwani is very interested in advancing the field of Pediatric Hematopoietic cell transplantation outside of the United States of America. In collaboration with the government, he established one of the largest pediatric bone marrow transplant units in the government hospital in his home state in India. Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College is a reputed government medical college at Indore, Madhya Pradesh that is affiliated with Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital (MYH). Seventy transplants have been performed for children with thalassemia, sickle cell disease, severe aplastic anemia, and leukemia, 95% of these children are from families who are below the poverty line and without medical insurance. These children received BMT free of cost. BMT units in very resource-limited government hospitals bring different sets of challenges that are difficult to manage but not insurmountable.