Rajinder P. Bajwa, MD

Rajinder Bajwa, MD is a member of the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital within the Division of Hematology/Oncology/BMT at Nationwide Children's Hospital and an an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. His research interests include Polyarteritis nodosa, Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator for treatment of hepatic veno-occlusive disease following bone marrow transplantation in children and increased urinary copper excretion following cirrhosis.

Gender:

• Male

Languages Spoken:

• English
• Urdu
• Punjabi
• Hindi

Internship

• Rajendra Hosp Patiala & Govt Med College
  Date Completed: 12/31/1984

Graduate School

• Punjabi University
  Date Completed: 08/24/1985

Residency

• Rajendra Hosp Patiala & Govt Med College
  Date Completed: 12/31/1985

Residency

• Institute of Medical Education/Research
  Date Completed: 06/30/1992

Residency

• Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital
  Date Completed: 07/31/1996

Residency

• Kent and Canterbury Hospital
  Date Completed: 02/28/1997

Fellowship

• South Tyneside NHS Healthcare
  Date Completed: 01/31/2001

Residency

• Women and Childrens Hospital of Buffalo
  Date Completed: 06/30/2003

Fellowship

• University of Minnesota
  Date Completed: 04/30/2006

Fellowship

• Women and Childrens Hospital of Buffalo
  Date Completed: 06/30/2006

Department:

• Pediatrics

Section:

• Hematology/Oncology

Speciality:

• Pediatric Hematology Oncology
  
• Pediatrics
  

Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital:

• 07/01/2007

• R Bajwa, M Skeens, A Garee, Y Miao, S Soni, D Pietryga, T Gross, A Termuhlen. 2012. Metabolic Syndrome and Endocrine Dysfunctions after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Children.  PEDTRANS. Vol. 16, no. 8. (December): 872-8.
• Bajwa R, Schechter T, Soni S, Gassas A, Doyle J, Sisler I, Godder K, Tatman D, Rumelhart S, Domm J, Miao Y, Frangoul H. 2012. Outcome of Children who Experience Disease Relapse Following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies.  BMT. Vol. advanced online, no. November: 1-5.
• M Battiwalla, T Wang, J Carreras, H. Joachim Deeg, M Ayas, RPS Bajwa, B George, V Gupta, R Pasquini, H Schrezenmeier, JR Passweg, KR Schultz, M Eapen. 2012. HLA-Matched Sibling Transplantation for Severe Aplastic Anemia: Impact of HLA DR15 Antigen Status of Engraftment, Graft-versus-Host Disease, and Overall Survival.  Biol BMT. Vol. 18(9), no. September: 1401-6.
• M Skeens, V Pai, A Garee, AM Termuhlen, RPS Bajwa, TG Gross and S Soni. 2012. Twice daily i.v. bolus tacrolimus infusion for GVHD prophylaxis in children undergoing stem cell transplantation.  Bone Marrow Transplantation advance online publication. Vol. doi:10.1038, no. April: ebmt.2012.59.
• Soni S, Skeens M, Termuhlen AM, Bajwa RP, Gross TG, Pai V. 2012. Levetiracetam for Busulfan-Induced Seizure Prophylaxis in Children.  Pediatr Blood Cancer. Vol. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pbc.24126/pdf, no. February: ehttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pbc.24126/pdf.
• Bajwa,Rajinder; Gross,Thomas; Savelli,Stephanie. 2012. Pentostatin for treatment of refractory autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome.  PEDIATRIC BLOOD & CANCER. Vol. 58, no. 2. (February): 311-311.
• Nemecek ER, Ellis K, He W, Bunin NJ, Bajwa RS, Cheerva A, Cairo MS, Dvorak C, Duval M, Davies S, Eapen M, Gross TG, Hussein AA, Macmillan ML, Mehta PA, Pulsipher MA, Seber A, Woolfrey AE, Frangoul HA. 2011. Outcome of Myeloablative Conditioning and Unrelated Donor Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Third Remission.  Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2011 Dec;17(12):1833-40.. Vol. 17, no. 12. (December): 1833-40. PubMed ID: 21683798
• Bajwa,Rajiinder,PS; Soni,Sandeep; Schechter,Tal; Gassas,Adam; Doyle,John,J; Sisler,India; Godder,Kamar; Tatman,David; Rumelhart,Stephen; Domm,Jennifer; Frangoul,Haydar. 2011. Outcome of Children Who Experience Disease Relapse Following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies. In 53rd Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American-Society-of-Hematology (ASH)
• Neil J. Rawlinson, Bonita Fung, Thomas G. Gross, Amanda M. Termuhlen,Micah Skeens, Amy Garee, Sandeep Soni, Daniel Pietryga, and Rajinder P.S. Bajwa. 2011. Disseminated Rhizomucor pusillus Causing EarlyMultiorgan Failure During Hematopoietic StemCell Transplantation for Severe Aplastic Anemia.  J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. Vol. 33, no. 3. (April): 235-237. PubMed ID: 21358340
• Garee, A.M., Skeens, M.A., Bajwa, R., Termuhlen, A. Poster Presentation:. 2011. THE NURSES ROLE IN ASSESSING ENDOCRINE DYSFUNCTION AND UNDERSTANDINGPARAMETERS OF METABOLIC SYNDROME FOLLOWING HEMATOPOETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT. In American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
• Rajinder Bajwa, MBBS, Stephanie Savelli, and Thomas Gross,. Pentostatin for Treatment of Refractory AutoimmuneLymphoproliferative Syndrome.  Pediatr Blood Cancer.
• Bhuvana Setty, Nicholas Yeager, Rajinder Bajwa. Heterozygous M1V variant of ELA-2 gene mutation associated with severe congenital neutropenia refractory to granulocyte- colony stimulating factor.  Pediatric Blood and Cancer.
• Soni,S; Skeens,M; Pai,V; Bajwa,R; Gross,T; Termuhlen,A. 2010. A pilot study of levetiracetam (Keppra (R)) for seizure prophylaxis in children receiving IV busulfan for haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In 36th Annual Meeting of the European-Group-for-Blood-and-Marrow-Transplantat/9th Meeting of the EBMT Data-Management-Group/26th Meeting of the EBMT Nurses Group/2nd EBMT Qual Management Meeting
• S. Soni, M. Skeens, T.G. Gross, R.P.Bajwa, S.K. Baker, A. Termuhlen, Poster Presentation. 2010. Outcomes After Addition Of Rabbit-ATG To The Standard BU + CY Preparative Regimen For Allogeneic Matched Sibling Donor (MSD) Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) For Hemoglobinopathies In Children. In American Society for Blood and marrow transplantation
• Soni, S, Termuhlen, A, Bajwa, R.P.S., Clayton, J,Montgomery, M, Hardin, D, Poster Presentation. 2009. Prevalence, Risk Factors and Management of Metabolic Syndrome After Stem Cell Transplantation In Pediatric Patients. In American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
• Mustillo P, Bajwa RP, Termuhlen AM, Nicol K, Scherzer R, Jaffe R, Filipovich AH, Gross TG. 2008. Tumor Immune Surveillance Defect of X-Linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Is Not Epstein-Barr Virus Specific.  Pediatric Blood and cancer. Vol. 5, no. 51. (November): 706-709.
• Minoo Battiwalla, Yiyuan Wu, Rajinder P.S. Bajwa, Marija Radovic, Nikolaos G. Almyroudis, Brahm H. Segal, Paul K. Wallace, Ryotaro Nakamura, Swaminathan Padmanabhan,Theresa Hahn, Philip L. McCarthy, Jr. 2007. Ganciclovir Inhibits Lymphocyte Proliferation by Impairing DNA Synthesis.  Biology of blood and marrow transplantation. Vol. 13, no. 7. (July): 765-770.
• Battiwalla M, Theresa Hahn, Marija Radovich, Hilary Roy, Afrin Wahab, Eileen Duman, Rajinder Bajwa, Swaminathan Padmanabhan, Joanne Becker, Philip L McCarthy, Jr. 2006. Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) DR15 is Associated with Reduced Incidence of Acute GVHD in HLA-matched Allogeneic Transplants But Does Not Impact Survival.  Blood. Vol. 107, no. 5. (March): 1970-1973.
• RPS Bajwa, R Skinner, KP Windebank, MM Reid: J Clin Pathol. 2004. 57, 186-188. 2004. Demographic study of Leukemia presenting within the first 3 months of life in the Northern Health Region of England.  Journal of Clinical Pathology. Vol. 57, no. 2. (January): 186-188.
• RPS Bajwa, AJ Cant, M Abinum, TJ Flood, S Hodges, JP Hale, R Skinner. 2003. Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator for treatment of hepatic veno-occlusive disease following bone marrow transplantation in children: effectiveness and a scoring system for initiating treatment.  Bone Marrow Transplantation. Vol. 31, no. 7. (April): 591-597.
• RPS Bajwa, R Skinner, AM Barrett. 2001. Fibrous Pseudotumour of the Tunica Vaginalis Testis.  Medical and Pediatric Oncology. Vol. 36, no. 6. (June): 665-666.
• RPS Bajwa, R Skinner, KP Windebank, UK Wariyar, MM Reid. 2001. Chemotherapy and Marrow Transplantation for Congenital Leukemia.  Archives of Disease in childhood. Vol. 20, no. 1. (January): F47-F48.
• Hoare, Simon. Bajwa, Rajinder S. P; Abinun, Mario. 2001. Septic Shock, Meningitis and Adrenal Hemorrhages in a Twelve-Year-Old.  The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. Vol. 20, no. 1. (January): 89-90.
• Bajwa,R,PS; Price,L; Roberts,A; Craft,A,W; Skinner,R; Mathias,D. 2000. Auditory function is unaffected by treatment with ifosfamide in children and adolescents.  MEDICAL AND PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY. Vol. 35, no. 2. (August): 156-156.
• RPS Bajwa, R Skinner, TJ Flood, M Abinun & AJ Cant, Poster Presenter. 1999. Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator therapy in Veno-Occlusive disease of the Liver following BMT. In Annual European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group
• Kumar L, Sarkar B, Singh S, Bajwa RP. 1996. Polyarteritis nodosa- a few unusual findings.  Indian Pediatrics. Vol. 33, no. 6. (June): 459-464.
• S Banerjee, R K Marwaha, R P S Bajwa. 1995. Fungal peritonitis complicating peritoneal dialysis.  Indian Pediatrics. Vol. 32, no. June: 693-97.
• Banerjee S, Marwaha RK, Bajwa RP. 1995. Primary pelvic neuroblastoma with central nervous system metastasis.  Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. Vol. 12, no. 3. (May): 309-312.
• Tomaraei,S,N; Bajwa,R,P; Dhiman,P; Marwaha,R,K. 1995. Incontinentia pigmenti (Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome): report of a case and review of the Indian literature.  Indian journal of pediatrics. Vol. 62, no. 1. (January): 118-122.
• R.P.S. Bajwa, G. Grewal, R.K.Marwaha. 1993. Acute febrile neutropenic dermatosis (sweet’s syndrome) in Myelodysplastic syndrome.  Pediatric Hmatology Oncology. Vol. 10, no. 4. (October): 343-346.
• V. Kohli, R.K.Marwaha, K.L. Narsimhan, R.P.S. Bajwa, S.K. Mitra. 1993. Esophago pleural Fistula complicating suppurative lung disease.  Indian Pediatrics. Vol. 30, no. June: 830-833.
• R.P.S. Bajwa, G. Grewal, R.K.Marwaha. 1993. Neutropenic enterocolitis and cecal perforation in acute lymphatic leukemia.  Indian Journal of Cancer. Vol. 30, no. March: 31-33.
• R.P.S. Bajwa, V. Kohli, R.K.Marwaha. 1992. Celiac Disease in Insulin Dependant Diabetes Mellitus.  Indian Pediatrics. Vol. 29, no. October: 1303-1305.
• Khajuria R, Marwaha RK, Gupta HL, Bajwa RP, Banerjee CK. 1989. Renovascular Hypertension in an infant.  Indian Pediatrics. Vol. 26, no. 4. (April): 409-410.
• RPS Bajwa. SUCCINCT PEDIATRICS. Edited by John Mahan and Leonard G. Feld.
• Battiwalla M, Wu Y, Bajwa RPS, Radovic M, Almyroudis NG, Segal BH, Wallace PK, Nakamura R, Padmanabhan S, Hahn T, McCarthy, Jr. PL. Ganciclovir Inhibits Lymphocyte Proliferation by Impairing DNA Synthesis. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplant (7): 765-70, July 13, 2007.