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Assistant Professor of Medicine

NPI Number: 1811314263
Academic Office Location: Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center UConn Health 263 Farmington Avenue Farmington, CT 06030-8072
Phone:	800-579-7822
Website(s):	Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Education

Degree	Institution	Major
MBBS	J.J.M. Medical College/Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences	Health Sciences
MPH	University of Massachusetts	Public Health

Degree

Institution

Major

MBBS

J.J.M. Medical College/Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences

Health Sciences

MPH

University of Massachusetts

Public Health

Post-Graduate Training

Training	Institution	Specialty
Fellowship	Harbor-UCLA Medical Center	Hematology/Medical Oncology
Residency	UMass Medical School-Baystate Medical Center	Internal Medicine

Training

Institution

Specialty

Fellowship

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Hematology/Medical Oncology

Residency

UMass Medical School-Baystate Medical Center

Internal Medicine

Awards

Name of Award/Honor	Awarding Organization
Medicine Grand Rounds Geriatric Update Jeopardy - 1st Place	UMass Medical School/Baystate Medical Center
Selected for Full Scholarship to Attend 2016 Southeast Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine Resident Award
Co-President of National Resident Section 2016	American Geriatric Society
Recruitment Officer in Baystate Internal Medicine Residency Geriatric Track
Member of Research Track (2014-2016)

Name of Award/Honor

Awarding Organization

Medicine Grand Rounds Geriatric Update Jeopardy - 1st Place

UMass Medical School/Baystate Medical Center

Selected for Full Scholarship to Attend 2016 Southeast Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine Resident Award

Co-President of National Resident Section 2016

American Geriatric Society

Recruitment Officer in Baystate Internal Medicine Residency Geriatric Track

Member of Research Track (2014-2016)

A Retrospective Assessment of Genomic Perturbations in a Plasma Cell Disorder Cohort at our Institution.
Kumar S, Kirk K, Hooper K, Vankina R International Myeloma Society, Athens, Greece 2023.
An evaluation of patient workflow in hematology clinics at a university hospital referred for the workup of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS).
Swarup Kumar, Radhika B Kulkarni, Gonca Ozcan, Asha Tipirneni, Ritika Vankina, W. Jeffrey Baker 2021 ASCO Quality Care Symposium
Thrombotic Significance in Plasma Cell Disorders: Do associated clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) mutations increase the risk?
Vankina R, Kirk K, Reddy A, Hooper K, and Kumar S. International Myeloma Society, Athens, Greece 2023.
Utilization of the Khorana score (KS) by hematology/oncology clinicians in the ambulatory setting. ASCO Quality Care Symposium, Chicago 2022.
Emmich M, Kidwai N, Holle L, and Vankina R. Ascopub

A case of gamma heavy chain disease: a rare B-cell disorder with successful therapeutic response.
Clark J, Kumar S, Vankina R Northern New England Clinical Oncology Society
Acquired Hemophilia A and STEMI: A Management Dilemma.
Jevin, Y., Lima G., Vankina R., Kumar S., and Meng J. Cureus. 2023 May 4;15(5):e38549. doi: 10.7759/cureus.38549. PMID: 37288205
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia as a harbinger of lymphoma
Megan Emmich, Victoria Forbes, Ritika Vankina Northern New England Clinical Oncology Society
Normal karyotype FLT3 mutated Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia; a rare diagnosis
Lakshmi Kolandra, Megan Emmich, Pragna Kapadia, Ritika Vankina 2021 International Congress on Myeloproliferative Neoplasms