Puja Umaretiya, MD
Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Mayo Medical School (2015)
- Residency
- Boston Children's Hospital/Boston Medical Center (2018), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Dana-Farber/Boston Children's (2022), Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Dana-Farber/Massachusetts General Hospital (2019), Hospice & Palliative Medicine - Graduate School
- Harvard School of Public Health (2022)
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric oncology; patient and family-reported outcomes; social needs intervention
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Publications
- Inequitable Poverty Exposures: A Subspecialty Opportunity to Address Disparities. Karvonen KA, Umaretiya PJ, Koch VB, Flamand Y, Aziz-Bose R, Ilcisin L, Valenzuela A, Cole PD, Gennarini LM, Kahn JM, Kelly KM, Tran TH, Michon B, Welch JJG, Wolfe J, Silverman LB, Rosenberg AR, Bona K, Hosp Pediatr 2024 Feb 14 2 e104-e106
- "It's a lot of things": Household material hardship among Black and Hispanic parents of children with cancer. Valenzuela A, Hawkins A, Revette A, Chen L, Xiong N, Mazzola E, Eche IJ, Karvonen K, Snaman JM, Wolfe J, Bona K, Umaretiya PJ, Pediatr Blood Cancer 2023 Jun e30485
- Disparities in parental distress in a multicenter clinical trial for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- Umaretiya PJ, Koch VB, Flamand Y, Aziz-Bose R, Ilcisin L, Valenzuela A, Cole PD, Gennarini LM, Kahn JM, Kelly KM, Tran TH, Michon B, Welch JJG, Wolfe J, Silverman LB, Bona K, J Natl Cancer Inst 2023 Jun
- "The simple life experiences that every other human gets": Desire for normalcy among adolescents and young adults with advanced cancer. Umaretiya PJ, Fisher L, Altschuler A, Kushi LH, Chao CR, Vega B, Rodrigues G, Josephs I, Brock KE, Buchanan S, Casperson M, Fasciano KM, Kolevska T, Lakin JR, Lefebvre A, Schwartz CM, Shalman DM, Wall CB, Wiener L, Bona K, Mack JW, Pediatr Blood Cancer 2023 Jan 70 1 e30035
- A Structural Racism Framework to Guide Health Equity Interventions in Pediatric Oncology. Umaretiya PJ, Vinci RJ, Bona K, Pediatrics 2022 May 149 5
- Naming the Problem: A Structural Racism Framework to Examine Disparities in Palliative Care. Umaretiya PJ, Wolfe J, Bona K, J Pain Symptom Manage 2022 May 63 5 e461-e463
- Missing Voices: Lessons Learned from Nonparticipating Caregivers in Palliative Care Research. Umaretiya PJ, Ilowite M, Fisher L, Bakitas M, Currie ER, Gilbertson-White S, Lindley L, Roeland EJ, Mack JW, Bona K, J Palliat Med 2022 Mar 25 3 455-460
- Race, ethnicity, and goal-concordance of end-of-life palliative care in pediatric oncology. Umaretiya PJ, Li A, McGovern A, Ma C, Wolfe J, Bona K, Cancer 2021 Oct 127 20 3893-3900
- PediCARE: Development of a poverty-targeted intervention for pediatric cancer. Umaretiya PJ, Revette A, Seo A, Flamand Y, Ilcisin L, Zheng DJ, Bhatia S, Wolfe J, Bona K, Pediatr Blood Cancer 2021 Oct 68 10 e29195
- Learning to listen: A plea to our profession. Umaretiya PJ, Tsai JW, Pediatr Blood Cancer 2021 Aug 68 8 e29150
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Awards and Honors
- ASCO Career Development Award (2024)
- UTSW Dean's Clinical Scholar Award (2024)
- National Palliative Care Research Center Kornfeld Scholars Award (2023)
- ASCO Young Investigator Award (2022-2023)
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