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Kapil S. Meleveedu, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Blood and Marrow Transplantation

NPI Number: 1922353325
Academic Office Location: Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center UConn Health 263 Farmington Avenue Farmington, CT 06030
Phone:	860-679-8992 860-679-2100
Website(s):	Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program

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Education

Degree	Institution	Major
MBBS	Calicut Medical College	Medicine and Surgery

Degree

Institution

Major

MBBS

Calicut Medical College

Medicine and Surgery

Post-Graduate Training

Training	Institution	Specialty
Internship	Yale New Haven Health/Bridgeport Hospital	Internal Medicine
Residency	Yale New Haven Health/Bridgeport Hospital	Internal Medicine
Fellowship	UConn School of Medicine	Hematology/Oncology
Fellowship	Mayo Clinic	Blood and Marrow Transplant

Training

Institution

Specialty

Internship

Yale New Haven Health/Bridgeport Hospital

Internal Medicine

Residency

Yale New Haven Health/Bridgeport Hospital

Internal Medicine

Fellowship

UConn School of Medicine

Hematology/Oncology

Fellowship

Mayo Clinic

Blood and Marrow Transplant

Autologous and allogeneic blood and marrow transplant and other cellular therapies including chimeric antigen receptor therapy (CART)
Hematological malignancies including acute leukemias such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), and other myeloid disorders like myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) and myelofibrosis (MF)
Bone marrow failure conditions like severe aplastic anemia (SAA), myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
Aggressive lymphomas, plasma cell disorders

Name & Description	Category	Role	Type	Scope
American Society of Hematology (ASH)	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National
American Society of Transplantation and Cellular therapy (ASTCT)	Professional/Scientific Organization	Member	External	National

Name & Description

Journal Articles

Sequential Use of Prednisolone and Cyclosporine Is Effective in the Management of Immunotherapy-Related Hemolytic Anemia.
Verghese, Cherian; Brahmbhatt, Niravkumar; Ghous, Ghulam; Meleveedu, Kapil; Vander Velde, Nancy; Hunter, Mark; Parameshwaran, Hari Journal of hematology 2024 Dec;13(6):285-289
Characteristics and outcomes of therapy-related myeloid neoplasms following autologous stem cell transplantation for multiple myeloma.
Nadiminti, Kalyan; Sidiqi, M Hasib; Meleveedu, Kapil; Alkhateeb, Hassan B; Hogan, William J; Litzow, Mark; Patnaik, Mrinal; Kumar, Shaji; Gertz, Morie; Chen, Dong; Shah, Mithun Vinod Blood cancer journal 2021 Mar;11(3):63
PD-1/PD-L1 expression in extramedullary lesions of acute myeloid leukemia.
Meleveedu, Kapil S; Chen, Dong; Nadiminti, Kalyan; Sidiqi, Hasib; Khan, Shakila; Alkhateeb, Hassan; Shah, Mithun V; Patnaik, Mrinal; Hogan, William J; Begna, Kebede; Litzow, Mark Leukemia & lymphoma 2021 Mar;62(3):764-767
Tocilizumab for severe COVID-19 related illness - A community academic medical center experience.
Meleveedu, Kapil S; Miskovsky, John; Meharg, Joseph; Abdelrahman, Abd; Tandon, Richa; Moody, Ashley E; Dasilva, Priscilla; Masse, Gabrielle; LaPorte, Jason; Saied Calvino, Abdul; Allen, Greg; El-Bizri, Rabih; Roberts, Todd; Armenio, Vincent; Katz, Steven C Cytokine: X 2020 Dec;2(4):100035
Autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with AL amyloidosis with impaired renal function.
Sidiqi, M Hasib; Nadiminti, Kalyan; Al Saleh, Abdullah S; Meleveedu, Kapil; Buadi, Francis K; Dispenzieri, Angela; Warsame, Rahma; Lacy, Martha Q; Dingli, David; Leung, Nelson; Gonsalves, Wilson I; Kapoor, Prashant; Kourelis, Taxiarchis V; Hogan, William J; Kumar, Shaji K; Gertz, Morie A Bone marrow transplantation 2019 Nov;54(11):1775-1779

Book Chapters

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Kapil Meleveedu Ferri’s Clinical Advisor
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Meleveedu, Kapil Ferri’s Clinical Advisor
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Meleveedu, Kapil Ferri’s Clinical Advisor
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
Meleveedu, Kapil Ferri’s Clinical Advisor

Abstracts

Delaying Filgrastim Administration after Autologous Stem Cell Transplant in Patients with Multiple Myeloma
Medawar G., Perez Rodriguez A., Cerio C., Todds R., Meleveedu K*. IJCCD 2022 Jun;2(Supplement 1):
De-Escalation of PTCy Dosing in Matched Allogenic Transplants: A Single Institution Retrospective Study
Ackula, H., Medawar, M., Cerio, C., Roberts, TF., Meleveedu, K*. Blood 2021 Nov;138(Supplement 1):4872
The Cost Effectiveness of Delaying Filgrastim Administration after Autologous Stem Cell Transplant in Patients with Multiple Myeloma – a Single Institution Experience
Medawar, G., Rodriguez, AP., Cerio, C., Roberts, TF., Meleveedu, K*. Blood 2021 Nov;138(Supplement 1):4959
Methotrexate-Induced Neurotoxicity Due to Ommaya Reservoir Malfunction in a Patient with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
Salk G, Mangala Y, Onukogu I, Meleveedu K Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma and Leukemia.

Case Reports

First case report of tumor lysis syndrome and acute renal failure after selinexor use in multiple myeloma.
Castellon, Chrystina; Onkarappa Mangala, Yashvin; Perez Rodriguez, Audrik; Chaquette, Raymond; Meleveedu, Kapil S Leukemia & lymphoma 2021 Dec;62(14):3536-3539
T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in a Patient with Pre-existing Essential Thrombocythemia: A Case Report and Literature Review.
Medawar, Georgio; Ackula, Haritha; Weinberg, Olga; Roberts, Todd; Meleveedu, Kapil Leukemia research reports 2021 Jan;16100264

Conference Papers

Deferred Diagnosis: The Consequences of Excision Biopsy Deferral in Follicular Lymphoma. International Academy for Clinical Hematology (IACH) 7th Annual Meeting. Oral Session
Godin S, El Warrack S, Chen D, Meleveedu K

Reviews

Acute myeloid leukemia in the medically unfit elderly patients.
Edmund, Joseph; Thaliath, Liz Joemon; Meleveedu, Kapil Leukemia research 2023 Jul;130107306
Advances in measurable residual disease monitoring for adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Meleveedu, KS., Litzow, M. Adv Cell Gene Ther. 2019 May;2(4):e67
Molecular and Genetic Markers in Indolent Follicular Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas are More Effectiveness in Predicting Early Relapse and Therefore Have Better Utility in Creating Cost-Effective Surveillance Strategies
Verghese C, Meleveedu K, Brahmbhatt N, Nagadia U,Johnson A, Raj R, Bagchi A, Ghalayini W, Koshy N Preprint

Title or Abstract	Type	Sponsor/Event	Date/Year	Location
Cellular therapies	Talk	UConn Health Cancer Center Event	2023	UConn Health
Overview of blood and marrow transplant and other cellular therapies	Talk	Internal medicine grand rounds lecture	2023	UCONN Health
Blood and marrow transplant complications and role of ICU/critical care	Talk	PCCM grand rounds	2023	UCONN Health
Root cause analysis for all patients with delayed engraftment or graft failure at RWMC	Talk	BMT Quality meeting	2022	Roger Williams Medical Center. Providence, RI
The Cost Effectiveness of Delaying Filgrastim Administration after Autologous Stem Cell Transplant in Patients with Multiple Myeloma – a Single Institution Experience	Talk	BMT Quality meeting	2021	Roger Williams Medical Center. Providence, RI
KTE-X19 CAR T-Cell Therapy in Relapsed or Refractory Mantle-Cell Lymphoma	Talk	Immuno-Oncology JC series	2020	Roger Williams Medical Center. Providence, RI
HLH with primary bone marrow lymphoma – an unusual presentation	Poster	ACP Annual Meeting, CT chapter	2014	Southington, CT
Delayed occurrence of Horner’s syndrome after chest tube removal	Poster	ACP Annual Meeting, CT chapter	2014	Southington, CT
Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome – a rapidly emerging entity	Poster	ACP Annual Meeting, CT chapter	2013	Southington, CT

Title or Abstract

Type

Sponsor/Event

Date/Year

Location

Cellular therapies

Talk

UConn Health Cancer Center Event

2023

UConn Health

Overview of blood and marrow transplant and other cellular therapies

Talk

Internal medicine grand rounds lecture

2023

UCONN Health

Blood and marrow transplant complications and role of ICU/critical care

Talk

PCCM grand rounds

2023

UCONN Health

Root cause analysis for all patients with delayed engraftment or graft failure at RWMC

Talk

BMT Quality meeting

2022

Roger Williams Medical Center. Providence, RI

The Cost Effectiveness of Delaying Filgrastim Administration after Autologous Stem Cell Transplant in Patients with Multiple Myeloma – a Single Institution Experience

Talk

BMT Quality meeting

2021

Roger Williams Medical Center. Providence, RI

KTE-X19 CAR T-Cell Therapy in Relapsed or Refractory Mantle-Cell Lymphoma

Talk

Immuno-Oncology JC series

2020

Roger Williams Medical Center. Providence, RI

HLH with primary bone marrow lymphoma – an unusual presentation

Poster

ACP Annual Meeting, CT chapter

2014

Southington, CT

Delayed occurrence of Horner’s syndrome after chest tube removal

Poster

ACP Annual Meeting, CT chapter

2014

Southington, CT

Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome – a rapidly emerging entity

Poster

ACP Annual Meeting, CT chapter

2013

Southington, CT