Dr. Karanam Ashok Kumar — Senior Consultant Haemato-Oncologist & BMT Specialist in Hyderabad

Dr. Karanam Ashok Kumar is a Senior Consultant Haemato-Oncologist and BMT Specialist at Yashoda Hospitals in Somajiguda, Hyderabad, with more than 21 years of experience. His profile carries three specializations: hematology, pediatric hematology and medical oncology.

Transplant is where the practice concentrates. Bone marrow transplant, autologous stem cell transplant and haploidentical bone marrow transplant head his list, and the conditions beneath them fall into two groups. Acute and chronic leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and myelodysplastic syndromes make up the malignant group. Thalassemia, sickle cell disease and hemophilia make up the inherited group, and these are the conditions behind the pediatric hematology specialization, since they present in childhood and are managed for life.

His training was long and almost entirely local. He read MBBS at S.V. Medical College in Tirupati, qualifying in 2005, then spent seven consecutive years at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad, taking his DNB between 2009 and 2012 and his DM between 2013 and 2016. A post-doctoral fellowship at Christian Medical College in Vellore followed in 2018 and 2019.

His earlier posts were at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, at the Mehdi Nawaj Jung Regional Cancer Center and at Care Hospitals in Hyderabad, before his current appointment at Yashoda Hospitals.

He is a member of the Indian Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and of the Asia Pacific Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the two bodies that set transplant standards for India and for the wider region.