Dr. Ganesh Jaishetwar — Senior Consultant in Hyderabad

Dr. Ganesh Jaishetwar is a Senior Consultant at Yashoda Hospitals in Hitec City, Hyderabad, with more than 25 years of experience. His profile records hematology together with pediatric hematology.

Bone marrow transplant is the centre of the work, and his record puts a number on it: more than 500 transplants performed at Yashoda Hospitals. Three of those were firsts. He performed the first haploidentical BMT in the twin Telugu states in 2015, the first consecutive double haplo BMT in the Telugu states in 2016, and the first ex vivo T-cell-depleted haplo BMT for adults in India, also in 2016. Haploidentical transplant uses a half-matched family donor, which is why each of those firsts widened the pool of patients who could be treated at all.

The conditions on his list divide into malignant and inherited. Acute and chronic leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and myelodysplastic syndromes on one side; thalassemia, sickle cell disease, hemophilia and chronic thrombocytopenia on the other. That second group is what the pediatric hematology specialization covers.

His qualifications are MD and DM in clinical hematology, a post-doctoral fellowship in bone marrow transplant at TMC, a fellowship in leukemia and BMT in Vancouver, and MACP as a member of the American College of Physicians. He also belongs to the American Society of Hematology, the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the European Hematology Association and the Indian Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion. He has published research papers in national and international journals and presented at national and international forums.