Dr. Sangeetha Gayam

• Consultant, Transfusion Medicine – Citizens Specialty Hospital, Hyderabad

• Senior Resident – Niloufer Hospital, Hyderabad

• Clinical Fellowship in Stem Cell & TPE – Medanta Medicity, Gurgaon

• Trained at ACTREC & Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, in apheresis for cellular therapy

• Observerships at KMC, Manipal, Tapadia Lifeline Diagnostic Centre, and Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad

• Safe Blood Collection & Processing – including neonatal aliquots, washed PRBCs, washed platelets, cryopreservation

• Patient Blood Management (PBM) – optimizing blood product usage, autologous collection, post-transfusion monitoring

• Apheresis Procedures – therapeutic leukapheresis, thrombocytapheresis, red cell exchange, plasma exchange for GBS, TTP, LDL apheresis

• Stem Cell & Cellular Therapy – pediatric and adult stem cell harvests, CAR-T harvests, DLI collections, graft manipulation

• Immunohematology – advanced cross-matching, hemovigilance, bleeding disorder coagulation studies

• Regenerative Medicine – cellular therapy support for orthopedics and dermatology

1. Gel card technique – A new method of cross matching of blood. International Journal of Recent Scientific Research, 2016

2. Case report: 27-year-old male with classical Bombay phenotype. The Antiseptic, 2016

3. Prevalence of ABO blood groups in a tertiary care hospital. The Antiseptic, 2016

4. Changing trends in therapeutic plasmapheresis: An Indian perspective. Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, 2017

Clinical Achievements

• Performed 150+ stem cell harvests, including pediatric & very low birth weight infants

• 7 CAR-T harvests successfully supported

• Managed advanced procedures: therapeutic leukapheresis, plateletpheresis, manual & automated red cell exchanges

• Supported 40+ hematopoietic stem cell transplants, including pediatric transplant programs

Certifications & Memberships

• Lifetime Member – Indian Society of Transfusion Medicine (ISTM)

• Awarded by ISTM (2016) for fellowship work in Stem Cell & Therapeutic Plasma Exchange

• Permanent Registration with the Medical Council of India (FMGE Cleared, 2013)