UAB Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics Sergio Stagno, MD, and Professor and Director of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Thomas H. Howard, MD, announce the appointment of Sandhya Kharbanda, MD, as assistant professor.

Dr. Kharbanda graduated from Government Medical College in Jabalpur, India, with a bachelor of surgery and bachelor of medicine degree. She completed her pediatric residency at Children's Medical Center of Brooklyn, State University of New York, where she was chief resident. She completed a pediatric hematology and oncology fellowship at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a pediatric bone marrow transplantation fellowship at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Dr. Kharbanda's clinical interests center on bone marrow transplantation in children with a particular focus on bone marrow transplantation for hemoglobinopathies, such as sickle cell disease and pulmonary complications in bone marrow transplantation. She pursues her academic and clinical work in the UAB Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program, housed in the Lowder Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Unit at Children's Hospital.

She is currently accepting patients at Children's Hospital and may be reached at 939-5848 for academic and administrative calls and at 939-9285 for patient appointments; e-mail skharbanda@peds.uab.edu.