Dr. L. Ajeitha

Indian academy of paediatrics Paediatric hemato-oncology

chapter of IAP

Tamil Nadu Pondicherry Pediatric

Oncology group

Indian society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

• M.B.B,S,M.D (Paediatrics)
• Post-Doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
• Fellowship in paediatric blood and bone marrow transplantation

• Pediatric oncology, hematology and bone marrow transplantation.
• Part of around 100 pediatric bone marrow transplants- both autologous and allogenic (around 80 allogenic transplants including haploidentical HSCTs) for a variety of benign (hemoglobinopathies including thalassemias, Immunodeficiency, Inherited metabolic disorders) and Malignant disorders (Paediatric ALL, AML CML and JMML)
• Trained in the newer methods of HSCT including Haploidentical HSCT with PTCY and T cell depletion techniques using TCR alpha/beta and CD45RA depletion.

• Dr. GOVINDA REDDY MEDAL IN PATHOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY-MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE
• Dr. GOLD SMITH GOLD MEDAL IN PATHOLOGY-MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE
• HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHITIOCYTOSIS IN CHILDREN-OUR EXPERIENCE-Oral presentation at the PEDICON 2018-Was awarded BRS Award

• Loganathan A, Munirathnam D, Ravikumar T. A novel mutation in the MECOM gene causing radioulnar synostosis with amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia (RUSAT-2) in an infant. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2019 Apr;66(4):e27574. doi: 10.1002/pbc.27574. Epub 2018 Dec 10. PMID: 30536840.
• Loganathan A, Munirathnam D, Sundaram B. X-linked Lymphoproliferative Disease (XLPI) Presenting as Non-Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) - Related Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). Indian Pediatr. 2020 Nov 15;57(11):1077-1078. PMID: 33231181.
• Nandhakumar, D., Loganathan, A., Sivasankaran, M. et al. Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Children. Indian J Pediatr 87, 526-531 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-020-03190-6'A
• Loganathan, Ajeitha & Srinivasan, Arathi & Scott, JuliusXavier & Ramamoorthy, Ramkumar. (2019). Pyoderma gangrenosum in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Indian Journal of Paediatric Dermatology. 20. 157. 10.4103/ijpd.IJPD_59_18.
• CYTOGENETICS AND MOLECULAR GENETICS IN CHILDHOOD ALL-Accepted in South Asian Journal of cancer PRESENTATION AT CONFERENCES:
• HEMATOPOETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISORDERS-ISBMT 2020, CMC VELLORE
• HEMATOPOETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT IN FANCONI ANEMIA-IN EUROPEAN BONE MARROW TRA NSPLANTATION MEETING, SPAIN 2020
• Induction infections in childhood ALL treatment Poster-PHOCON 2017
• Nutritional status of children with ALL-poster-PHOCON 2017. Research Interests:
• Pediatric solid tumor- challenges in treatment
• Post transplant infections in children