MBBS, DCH, DNB , Paediatric Haematology
15 Yrs+ Experience
Experience :
• December 21st 2016 till date: Senior Consultant & Head PediatricHematology Oncology & Marrow Transplant, Artemis Hospital, Gurugram.
• March 5th 2014 onwards: Senior Consultant PediatricHematology Oncology, Immunology & Bone Marrow Transplant, BLK super specialty hospital. Delhi, India.
• 4th 2013 till March 2nd 2014: Fellow in PediatricHematology& BMT, ST Mary’s Hospital, Imperial NHS trust, Paddington, London, UK
• Sep 11th 2012 till Sep 3rd 2013: International Pediatric BMT Fellow, Pediatric host defense unit, The Great North Children Hospital, Newcastle upon tyne, NE4 1LP
• Jan 2011 Sep 8th 2012: PediatricHematologist-Oncologist and Bone marrow transplant physician at Dr B L Kapur memorial hospital, Pusa road, New Delhi
• March 2009 to Jan 2011: Fellow in PediatricHematology Oncology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
• March 2008 to February 2009 : Senior Registrar in Pediatrics, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi
• June 2007 to February 2008: Senior Research Officer in PediatricHematology Oncology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
• April 2005 to April 2007: Post DCH DNB Registrar in Department of Pediatrics, Center for Child Health, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
• October 2004 to March 2005: Registrar in Department of Pediatrics, Sunder Lal Jain Memorial Hospital, New Delhi
• October 2002 to October 2004: Resident (DCH) in Department of Pediatrics, Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur, UP
• April 2001 to September 2002: House Officer, Sagar Heart Care Center, Sagar, MP
• April 2000 to March 2001: Internship in various disciplines (General Medicine, General Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Preventive and Social Medicine and other subjects) at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur, MP
September 2013 till March 2nd 2014: Fellow in Pediatrichematology& Bone Marrow Transplant, St Mary’s hospital, London, UK. St Mary’s hospital, London (UK) is center of excellence for pediatric blood disorders especially red cell disorders. The team has mastered the art of BMT for all benign hematological disorders (congenital or acquired). The center performs approx. 50 BMT each year for disease like thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, aplastic anemia. The center has expertise in performing related donor, unrelated donor, haplo-identical and cord blood transplants for these disorders.
September 2012 till September 3rd 2013: Fellowship in PediatricHematology-oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant, The Great North Children Hospital, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: GNCH is a state of art 250 bedded pediatric tertiary care hospital which is a referral center for northern part of Europe. It’s a world famous center for pediatric bone marrow transplant in pediatric immunodeficiency and hematology-oncology. It’s also a center for excellence for pediatric oncology and teenage cancer services. It provides comprehensive and holistic care to all the pediatric patients from neonatal period till 21 years of age. Apart from world class patient care and academic activities, GNCH is also famous for active research in the field of pediatric medicine.
March 2009 to Jan 2011: Fellowship in PediatricHematology-oncology & Barrow Transplant, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi: Worked as fellow in PediatricHematology-oncology & BMT at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi under able guidance of Dr Anupam Sachdeva and Dr Satya Prakash Yadav.
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital is a 700-bedded state of art referral and research hospital. The hospital provides abundant exposure to hematological, oncological and bone marrow transplant cases including cord stem cell transplant cases. The work profile consists of detailed patient workup, day-to-day care and monitoring of the admitted patients, common procedures and interventions, evaluation of the out patients, emergency calls and counseling sessions for relatives. Fund raising activities for the economically weaker patients is also part of work profile. Hectic work schedule is suitably supplemented with avid participation in academic sessions.
Professional Membership :
• Life Member Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP)
• Life Member PediatricHematology and Oncology (PHO) Chapter of IAP
• Member of International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP)

Award & Achievement :
Publications:
Original Article
1. Yadav SP, Sachdeva A, Gupta D, Sharma SD, Kharya G. Control of massive bleeding in dengue hemorrhagic fever with severe thrombocytopenia by use of intravenous anti-D globulin. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2008;51(6):812-13
2. Yadav SP, Kharya G, Mohan N, Sehgal A, Bhat S, Jain S, Kapoor G, Sachdeva A. Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis with Digestive Tract Involvement. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2010 Oct;55(4):748-53
3. Yadav SP, Kharya G. NK cell leukemia. Letter to editor. Indian Pediatrics. 2011 Jan; 48(1):79-80.
4. Kharya G, Yadav SP, Katewa S, and Sachdeva A. Management of Severe Refractory Thrombocytopenia in Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever With Intravenous Anti-D Immune Globulin. Ped Hemat Onc Volume 28, Number 8, October 2011 , pp. 727-732(6)
5. Choudhary D, Sharma SK, Gupta N, Kharya G, Pavecha P, Handoo A, Setia R, Katewa S. Treosulfan-Thiotepa-Fludarabine based Conditioning Regimen for Allogeneic Transplantation in patients with Thalassaemia Major: A Single Centre Experience from North India. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2012 Nov 15. doi:pii: S1083-8791(12)00480-6. 10.1016/j.bbmt.2012.11.007.
6. K. Jagadish Kumar, Nayana, Rekha Harish, Ashu, Jamwal, Thirunavukkarasu Arun Babu, Venkatesh Chandrasekaran, Sarita Sardana, Raj Narain, R. K. Marwaha, K. P. Kulkarni, Satya Prakash Yadav, Gaurav Kharya. Sepsis and treatment abandonment are barriers to improving survival of children with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the developing world. Indian pediatrics 08/2012; 48(1).
7. Sharma SK, Choudhary D, Handoo A, Kharya G, Gupta N, Pavecha P, Chadha R. Gelatinous transformation of bone marrow following the use of dasatinib in a patient with philadelphia chromosome positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leuk Res Reports 2013; 2: 7–8.
8. Md Ramzan, G Kharya, Satya P Yadav et al: Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Infants: A Single Center Experience from India. (accepted for publication in PediatricHematology& Oncology)
9. Gaurav Kharya, Zohreh Nademi, Mary Slatter et al: Haploidentical T-cell alpha beta receptor and CD19–depleted stem cell transplant for Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. Jour of Clin All and Immu (Article in press)
10. Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, Dharma Choudhary, Nitin Gupta, Mayank Dhamija, Vipin Khandelwal, Gaurav Kharya, Anil Handoo, Rasika Setia and Arpita Arora: Cost of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in India. Mediterr J Hematol Infect Dis 2014, 6(1): e2014046, DOI: 10.4084 / MJHID.2014.046
11. Satya Prakash Yadav, Neha Rastogi, Gaurav Kharya, Ruchira Misra, Mohammed Ramzan, Satyendra Katewa, Vikas Dua, Sunil Bhat, Stewart J Kellie,Scott C Howard. Barriers to cure for children with cancer in India and strategies to improve outcomes: a report by the Indian pediatrichematology oncology group. PediatricHematology and Oncology 04/2014; 31(3):217-24
12. Gaurav Kharya, Sanjeev Sharma, Rachna Sharma, Praveen Khilnani. PediatricHematopoetic Stem Cell Transplantation. JPCC Vol 2; No 1 Jan-Mar 2015: 14-23

Abstracts
1. Bhat S, Yadav SP, Kharya G et al. Langerhans cell histiocytosis type I presenting as protein losing enteropathy. Pediatric Blood Cancer 2009;53(5):802 (SIOP 2009 abstract PE.004)
2. Kalra M, Sabharwal RK, Kharya G et al. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) in a patient with high risk neuroblastoma post autologous bone marrow transplant (BMT). Pediatr Blood Cancer 2009;53(5):838 (SIOP 2009 abstract PN.006)
3. Bhat S, Sachdeva A, Kharya G et al. The potential role of recombinant activated FVII in the management of critical hemato-oncological bleeding: experience from a single tertiary pediatric cancer centre. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2009;53(5):843 (SIOP 2009 abstract P015)
4. Katewa S, Sachdeva A, Kharya G. Epidemiology and outcome of pediatric cancer using pediatric oncology network database: experience from a tertiary care centre in India. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2009;53(5):852 (SIOP 2009 abstract PP.030)
5. Katewa S, Sachdeva A, Kharya G et al. Pediatric cancer epidemiology and religion. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2009;53(5):853 (SIOP 2009 abstract PP.031)
6. Kalra M, Sachdeva A, Kharya G. Varied clinical profile of children with hepatoblastoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2009;53(5):898 (SIOP 2009 abstract 014)
7. Kharya G, Bhat S, Sachdeva A et al. Rare childhood tumours presenting as precocious pseudopuberty. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2009;53(5):899 (SIOP 2009 abstract 018)
8. Kharya G, Singh YD, Kushwaha KP et al. Clinical features of proven cases of Japanese Encephalitis epidemic 2003. PEDICON 2004, IAP National Conference, Chennai – January 2004
9. Kharya G, Rathi A, Mall A et al. Clinical profile of cases of Japanese Encephalitis. UP PEDICON 2004, UP state conference of IAP, Ghaziabad-November 2004 – Won Prof JR Srivastava GOLD MEDAL
10. Yadav SP, Sharma SD, Kharya G et al. Control of Massive Bleeding in Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever with Severe Thrombocytopenia by Use of KhamRho IV Anti D®. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2007; 110: 2086.
11. Kharya G, Yadav SP, Srivastava LM et al. Use of Interleukin 6, High Sensitivity CRP, TNF and Procalcitonin as Early Markers of Sepsis in Febrile Neutropenic Children. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2007; 110: 3852.
12. Yadav SP, Kharya G, Katewa S et al. Are Male Children with Cancer More Prone to Severe Sepsis? Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2006; 108: 3866.
13. Yadav SP, Misra R, Kharya G et al. Rituximab Use in Children – A Single Center Experience. Blood (ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts), Nov 2006; 108: 3892.
14. A Prakash, G Kharya, D K Kahlon, A Sachdeva, N Radhakrishnan, M Kalra, V Dinand, S P Yadav. Is it possible to treat pediatric acute myeloid leukemia in a developing country? ISH 2010 Jerusalem.
15. N Radhakrishnan, V Dinand, S Rao, P Bansal, G.S.Toteja, M Kalra, A Prakash, G Kharya, S P. Yadav, A Sachdeva. Trace element levels in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia at diagnosis and their correlation with response to therapy and risk of infection during induction of remission. SIOP 2010, Boston USA.

Chapters:
1. “Arterial blood gas vs venous blood gas: which one and when?” Dhiren Gupta and Gaurav Kharya, Pediatric emergency medicine edited by Suresh Gupta, published by Indian Journal of Pediatrics.
2. “Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease” Neelam Mohan and Gaurav Kharya, Advances in Pediatrics edited by AK Dutta, Anupam Sachdeva, published by Jaypee brothers.
3. “Febrile neutropenia: newer perspectives” Gaurav Kharya, Satya Prakash Yadav and Anupam Sachdeva, IAP information book, PEDICON 2008, Bhuvneshwar.
4. “Management of viral infections in immunocompromised cancer patients” Review article. Gaurav Kharya, Anupam Sachdeva and Satya Prakash Yadav. PHO bulletin (PHO chapter of IAP) July-Sept. 2007: Volume 2 , Number 1 ; Page 44-50
5. “Prevention of infection in immunocompromised hosts” Review article. Gaurav Kharya, Anupam Sachdeva and Satya Prakash Yadav. PHO bulletin (PHO chapter of IAP) July-Sept. 2007: Volume 2 , Number 1 ; Page 72 – 78
6. Gaurav Kharya, Sanjeev Sharma, Rachna Sharma, Praveen Khilnani. PaediatricHematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Textbook of Paediatric critical care.