Veronika Bachanova, MD

Dr. Bachanova received her MD degree from Komenius University Medical School in Slovakia in 1992. She joined the National Cancer Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia to train in Oncology and Supportive Care. She took active part in clinical trials studying anti-infective management of patients with neutropenia. Her clinically based PhD program based at the School of Public Health in Trnava, Slovakia was defended in 1997 with a theses entitled “Use of azole antifungals ( Fluconazole and Itraconazole) in the management of infections in cancer patients.”

In 1995 Dr. Bachanova moved to the USA, completed an internal medicine residency at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit in 1998 and for a few years worked as an internist in private practice in rural Texas.

She was a fellow in Hematology,Oncology and Transplantation at the University of Minnesota from 2004-2007. During her fellowship she worked in Dr. Jeff Miller’s lab studying the role of  the Notch pathway in Natural Killer Cell maturation. She also conducted a retrospective analysis of infectious complications in BMT patients with regard to conditioning regimen.  In 2007 Dr. Bachanova became an Assistant Professor of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation at the University of Minnesota.

Publications

Bachanova V, Weisdorf D. Unrelated donor allogeneic transplantation for adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia.  A review.  Bone Marrow Transplantation 2007; In Press.