Hannah Asghari, M.D.

 

Hannah Asghari, M.D., is a high-achiever noted for academic scholarship and dedication to her patients. A board-certified physician specializing in hematology and oncology, Dr. Asghari feels “deeply privileged to help guide patients during their most trying times.” 
 
Dr. Asghari is a summa cum laude graduate of University of Florida, where she studied biochemistry and molecular biology. She received her medical degree at UF and continued her training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, followed by a hematology/oncology fellowship at University of South Florida based at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
 
Dr. Asghari says she’s known “since childhood” that she wanted to be a physician. She’s delighted to join the City of Hope family. “City of Hope,” she said, “is on the cutting edge of research and provides outstanding patient care.”

Abstracts and Poster Presentations

• Asghari H, Mo Q, Naqvi SM, Lazaryan A, Davila ML, Nishihori T, Khimani F, Mishra A, Perez LE, Elmariah H, Liu H, Nieder M, Fernandez H, Pidala JA, Anasetti C, Bejanyan N. (2019). Survival of Older Patients with AML and MDS after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Transplantation Is Best Determined By Combining Disease Risk and Comorbidity Indices. 2019 Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meeting of ASBMT and CIBMTR. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 25(3), S124-S125. DOI:10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.12.406
• Asghari H, Talati C, Achille A, Powers J, Sahakian E, Chan O, Isenalumhe L, Nodzon L, Sweet K, Pinilla-Ibarz J. (2019). Comparison of Digital Droplet Polymerase Chain Reaction (ddPCR) Technology to Real Time Quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) for Detection of BCR-ABL p210 Transcript upon Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Discontinuation in Patients with CP-CML. 21ST Annual John Goldman Conference on Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Biology and Therapy. Bordeaux, France, September 12-15, 2019.
• Chan O, Jennings M, Asghari H, Song J, Hussaini M, Sallman D, Padron E, Komrokji R, List A, Lancet J, Mishra A, Sweet K, Talati C. (2019). RUNX1 Mutation is Associated with Poor Outcome in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) who Received Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation (allo-SCT). 2019 Society of Hematologic Oncology Annual Meeting. Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia, 19, S233. DOI:10.1016/j.clml.2019.07.119
• Asghari H, Lee D, Deutsch YE, Chan O, Al Ali N, Boisclair S, Brahim A, Padron E, Kuykendall A, List A, Fernandez H, Lancet J, Sallman D, Komrokji R, Sweet K, Talati C. HANNAH H. ASGHARI, M.D. PAGE 3 (2019). Outcomes of Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia Receiving Hypomethylating Agent and Venetoclax. 2019 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting. Blood, 134(Supplement_1), 1357-1357. DOI:10.1182/blood-2019-128958
• Asghari H, Lee D, Deutsch YE, Chan O, Al Ali N, Boisclair S, Terrell C, Padron E, Kuykendall A, List A, Fernandez H, Lancet J, Sallman D, Komrokji R, Sweet K, Talati C. (2019). Hypomethylating Agent and Venetoclax Combination Yields Comparable Outcomes to CPX-351 in Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia. 2019 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting. Blood, 134(Supplement_1), 3895-3895. DOI:10.1182/blood-2019-130379
• Asghari H, Talati C, Achille A, Powers JJ, Sahakian E, Chan O, Shelton D, Isenalumhe L, Nodzon L. Sweet K, Pinilla Ibarz J. (2019). Conventional Real Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Method Yields Similar Level of Sensitivity to Digital Droplet Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detection of BCR-ABL p210 Transcripts in Patients with Chronic Phase Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. 2019 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting. Blood, 134(Supplement_1), 3382-3382. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2019-131207
• Chan O, Hunter A, Talati C, Sallman DA, Asghari H, Song J, Hussaini M, Bejanyan N, Elmariah H, Kuykendall A, Padron E, Komrokji R, List A, Lancet J, Sweet K, Mishra A. (2019). Impact of TP53 gene Mutation Clearance and Conditioning Intensity on Outcome in MDS or AML Patients Prior to Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation. 2019 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting. Blood, 134(Supplement_1), 149-149. DOI:10.1182/blood-2019- 131530
• Chan O, Talati C, Asghari H, Bejanyan N, Elmariah H, Hussaini M, Khimani F, Kim J, Komrokji R, Kuykendall A, Lancet J, List A, Nieder M, Nishihori T, Padron E, Perez L, Pidala J, Song J, Zhou J, Sallman D. Sweet K, Mishra A. (2019). Clearance of Somatic Gene Mutations in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Prior to Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) Predicts Outcome. 2019 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting. Blood, 134(Supplement_1), 4621-4621. DOI:10.1182/blood-2019-130922