Senior Consultant

Position

Designation: Senior Consultant – Adult Haemato-Oncology & BMT
Department: Adult Haemato-Oncology / Clinical Haematology & BMT
Reports to: Head of Department 
Employment: Full-time / Permanent
Location: Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre\.

Key Clinical Responsibilities

• Diagnose and manage adult patients with:
  • Acute myeloid and lymphoblastic leukaemias
  • Lymphomas
  • Multiple myeloma and plasma-cell disorders
  • Myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative neoplasms
  • Aplastic anaemia and bone-marrow failure syndromes
  • Other malignant and complex haematological disorders
• Provide comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, day-care and emergency haemato-oncology services.
• Develop individualized treatment plans incorporating chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy and other contemporary treatment modalities.
• Perform and/or supervise bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy, lumbar puncture and intrathecal chemotherapy where appropriate.
• Interpret and integrate peripheral blood, bone marrow, flow cytometry, cytogenetic and molecular diagnostic findings.
• Provide specialist transfusion and supportive-care guidance in collaboration with Transfusion Medicine.
• Participate in multidisciplinary tumour boards and disease-specific clinical meeting