Dr. Teena is a brilliant specialist
currently working in New York, NY. She is a dynamic and
enthusiastic doctor helping patients within the reach. Dr. Teena
Bhatla is an individual whose personal and professional aim is to
help people medically. In so many years of practice, Dr. Teena
Bhatla has earned a name and already cemented a place as a
professional doctor of own field. She is always there for the
patients and loves her work. She has received The Ira Sohn
foundation fellowship award 2011-2014
- New York University School of Medicine, Brooklyn, New
York (Pediatric Hematology Oncology,Fellow)
- Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
(Pediatric Residency, MD)
- SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan (MBBS)
Teaching Experience
- Resident seminar "Autism", "Protein energy
Malnutrition" "Retinopathy of Prematurity"
- Grand rounds "Cutaneous polyarteritis Nodosa"
- Grand rounds "Cerebral Palsy"
- Resident seminar "Fluid and electrolyte balance"
- Lecturer, Pediatric Residents, "Von Willebrand
disease"
- Lecturer, Pediatric Residents, "Leukemias"
- Group session with medical students annually
"Hereditary spherocytosis"- case and scientific discussion
- Lecturer, Pediatric Residents, "Graft versus Host
disease"
- Lecturer, Pediatric Residents, "Idiopathic
thrombocytopenic purpura"
- Lecturer, Pediatric Residents, "Tumor lysis Syndrome"
- Mortality and Morbidity Conference: Panel discussant
- Karpatkin Korner- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia:
Facilitator
- Laboratory mentor for medical student-teaching basic
lab techniques and helping with honors program research
project
Hospital Appointments
- Senior/Chief resident, Department of Pediatrics, Sri
Action Balaji Medical Institute, Delhi, India
- Instructor, Division of pediatric
hematology-oncology, New York University School of Medicine,
NY
- Attending Physician, Bellevue Medical Center, New
York, NY
- Attending Physician, Woodhull Medical Center,
Brooklyn, NY
Licensure and Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics Certificate
- New York Licensure for Pediatrics
- PALS certification
- American Board of Pediatric-hematology Oncology
certificate
Memberships in Professional Societies
- Member, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Member, American Society of Hematology
- Member, American Society of Pediatric
Hematology-oncology
- Associate member: Children's Oncology Group
- Site Principal Investigator: Therapeutic Advances of
Childhood Leukemia and Lymphoma Consortium
Awards
- Medical school honors in Anatomy, pathology and
pediatrics
- Memorial Gold Medal Award, SMS Medical College, India
- Award of excellence in research, Maimonides Medical
Center, Brooklyn
- ASH abstract achievement award
- BLY foundation grant support
Poster Presentations
- Bhatla, T. Wetzler, G. Bultron, G. Severe Painless GI
bleeding: An unusual presentation of Helicobacter pylori
Associated Peptic ulcer disease in Children of South Asian
origin- Lutheran research Fair, Brooklyn, 2008
- Bhatla T, Wang J, Morrison D, Zaky W, Raetz E and
Carroll W. Vorinostat reverses relapse specific drug
resistance gene expression signatures in childhood acute
lymphoblastic leukemia- American Society of Hematology
conference, Orlando, Florida, 2010
- Bhatla T, Wang J, Morrison D, Raetz E, Burke M, Brown
P and Carroll W. Epigenetic modulation leads to re-expression
of relapse specific silenced genes and induces
chemosensitivity in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia-
American Society of Hematology conference, San Diego,
California, 2011
- Bhatla T, Wang J, Morrison D, Raetz E, Burke M, Brown
P and Carroll W. Epigenetic reprogramming reverses the
relapse specific gene expression signature and induces
chemosensitivity in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia -
Pediatric Translational Genomics Conference, Scottsdale, AZ,
February 2012
- Jones C, Bhatla T, Wang J, Morrison D, Raetz E,
Garabedian M and Carroll WTBL1XR1 Deletion Results in
Resistance to Prednisolone in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
Keystone Epigenetics Symposium, New Mexico, AZ, March 2013.
- Bhatla T, Wang J, Morrison D, Jones C, Raetz E, Burke
M, Brown P, Loh M, Hunger S, Carroll WL Evolution of the
Histone Code in Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia -
American Society of pediatric Hematology-oncology, Miami,
Florida 2013
- Jones CL, Gearheart C, Fosmire S, Wang J, Bitterman
D, Bhatla T, Bourgeois W, Porter C, Carroll WL Genome-Wide
shRNA Screen Implicates Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase
(MAPK) Pathway in Glucocorticoid Resistance in Acute
Lymphoblastic Leukemia - American Society of Hematology
conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2013
- Dandekar S, Romanos-Sirakis E, Pais F, Bhatla T,
Jones C, Bourgeois W, Hunger SP, Raetz EA, Hermiston, 2
Dasgupta R, Morrison DJ, and Carroll WL Inhibition of the Wnt
Pathway Leads to Improved Chemosensitivity in Pediatric Acute
Lymphoblastic
- Madhusoodhan P, Roman E, Nardi M, Bhatla T- Factor X
deficiency presenting as neonatal intracranial hemorrhage:
Shorter factor half-life leading to a challenging treatment
course
- To be presented at upcoming American Society of
pediatric Hematology-oncology meeting, Chicago, IL- 2014
Bibliography
- Bhatla, P Acharya, U, Bhatla, T. To study the effect
of phototherapy on calcium homeostasis and study other side
effects.
- Current Medical trends; 06/2004, volume: 8/no.2:
1520-1526
- Bhatla, T Cerebral Palsy: Chapter in Textbook of
Pediatric Neurology in Tropics: 2007 Jaypee Brothers
- Morrison DJ, Hogan LE, Condos G, Bhatla T, Germin N,
Moskowitz N, Lee L, Bhojwani D, Horton TM, Belitskaya-Levy I,
Greenberger LM, Horak ID, Grupp SA, Teachey D, Raetz EA and
Carroll WL. Endogenous Knock-down of survivin improves
chemotherapeutic response in ALL models.
- Leukemia 2011 Aug 16 doi: 10.1038/leu.2011.199.
(Epub ahead of print)
- Arva N, Pappas J, Bhatla T, Raetz E, Ginsburg H,
Hajdu C. Well differentiated pancreatic endocrine carcinoma
in tuberous sclerosis: case report and review of literature.-
American Journal of surgical pathology 2012 Jan; 36(1):149:
53
- Bhatla T, Wang J, Morrison D, Raetz E, Burke M, Brown
P and Carroll W.- Epigenetic reprogramming reverses the
relapse specific gene expression signature and induces
chemosensitivity in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
Blood. May 31, 2012: 119 (22): 5201-5210
- Raetz, E and Bhatla, T- Where do we stand in the
treatment of relapsed ALL? Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ
Program. 2012; 2012:129-36
- Meyer J, Carroll WL, Bhatla T- Screening for gene
mutations: will early identification of NT5C2 gene mutations
help predict the likelihood of relapse and treatment options
in acute lymphoblastic leukemia? Expert Rev Hematol. 2013
Jun;6(3):223-4
- Saha A, Dandekar S, Milla S, Roman E, Bhatla
TBilateral parotid gland enlargement and palpable
nephromegaly in infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Case
report and review of literature.