Dr. Vipin Khandelwal — Consultant in Mumbai

Dr. Vipin Khandelwal is a Consultant in Paediatric Hemato Oncology and BMT at Apollo Hospitals in Navi Mumbai, with more than 12 years of experience. He is listed in pediatric hematology and in hematology and BMT, and his qualifications are MBBS, MD, DM and PDF.

His procedures are pediatric bone marrow transplant, pediatric leukemia, thalassemia, sickle cell disease and aplastic anemia treatment, so both the cancers and the marrow failures of childhood are handled in one service.

He read MBBS at Topiwala National Medical College in Mumbai and took MD in paediatrics at BJ Medical College in Pune. His DM in paediatric oncology was taken at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, described in his record as one of India's premier cancer centres, and his PDF is advanced training in bone marrow transplantation and haematological disorders for children. He practises at Apollo Hospitals in Navi Mumbai.

His published work is closely tied to the operations he performs, and one technique runs through most of it. Post-transplant cyclophosphamide, the drug protocol that makes half-matched family donors usable, appears in his work on haploidentical transplantation for refractory and relapsed lymphomas and again in his work on haploidentical transplant in paediatric aplastic anaemia. He has also published on risk stratification in sickle cell transplantation for severe aplastic anaemia, and a retrospective analysis of oral azacitidine as maintenance therapy in acute myeloid leukaemia. Work of that kind is written from a transplant unit's own case series rather than from the literature.