Dr. Wadhwa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and has been a Staff Physician in the Hematology-Oncology Section of the Minneapolis VA Medical Center since August 2004.
He received his MD degree from the BJ Medical College/University of Poona, India. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Minnesota followed by a hematology/oncology fellowship at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. He was on faculty at Case Western Reserve University between 2001-04 before moving to the University of Minnesota.
His clinical interests are in the fields of hematological and genito-urinary malignancies and he is interested in clinical research in lymphomas, myeloma and prostate cancer. He is board certified in Internal Medicine (1998), Medical Oncology (2001) and Hematology (2002).
Selected Publications
Sethi PP, Wadia RS, Wadhwa PD et al. Ring or disc enhancing lesions in epilepsy in India. Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1994; 97:347-53
Roth JC, Zielske S, Wadhwa P et al. Cancer Gene Therapy Models. ‘The Cancer Handbook’ (first edition), p 1069-1079 (published by Nature MacMillan, 2002)
Wadhwa PD, Lazarus HM et al. Should involved-field radiation be an adjunct to lymphoma auto-transplants? Bone Marrow Transplantation 2002; 29: 183-189
Wadhwa P, Gerson SL et al. Gene therapy of cancer-scientific basis. Annual Review of Medicine 2002; 53:437-452
Wadhwa PD, Lazarus HM, Laughlin MJ et al. Hematopoietic recovery after unrelated umbilical cord-blood allogeneic transplantation in adults treated with in vivo stem cell factor (R-MetHuSCF) and filgrastim administration. Leukemia Research 2003; 27:215-220
Wadhwa PD, Lazarus HM et al. High-dose carmustine, etoposide and cisplatin for autologous stem cell transplantation with or without involved-field radiation for relapsed/refractory lymphoma: An effective regimen with low morbidity and mortality. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2005; 11:13-22
Wadhwa PD, Morrison VA. Infectious complications of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Semin Oncol 2006; 33:240-9 (Review).
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