Navneet Majhail MD, MS

Dr Majhail is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Department of Medicine. He graduated from the Government Medical College, Chandigarh, India in 1996. He subsequently received residency training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. This was followed by a subspecialty fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at the University of Minnesota. He also obtained a Masters of Science in Clinical Research from the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, during his fellowship.

Dr Majhail has been a member of the faculty at the University of Minnesota since January 2007. His clinical interest is the treatment of malignant and non-malignant hematological disorders in adults using hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. His research interests include quality of life and late effects of transplantation in bone marrow transplant survivors.

Selected Publications

NS Majhail, K Parks, TE Defor, DJ Weisdorf. Alveolar hemorrhage following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation using reduced intensity conditioning. Bone Marrow Transplantation 2006, 38(11): 765-8.

NS Majhail, TE Defor, DJ Weisdorf, LJ Burns. Long term results of autologous stem cell transplantation for primary refractory or relapsed Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2006, 12(10): 1065-72.

NS Majhail, K Parks, TE Defor, DJ Weisdorf. Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage and infection associated alveolar hemorrhage following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Related and high-risk clinical syndromes. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2006, 12(10): 1038-46.

NS Majhail, CG Brunstein, JE Wagner. Double umbilical cord blood transplantation. Current Immunology Reports 2006, 18(5): 571-5.

NS Majhail, CA Schiffer, DJ Weisdorf. Improvement of pulmonary function with imatinib mesylate in bronchiolitis obliterans following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2006, 12(7): 789-91.

NS Majhail, DJ Weisdorf, JE Wagner, TE Defor, CG Brunstein, LJ Burns. Comparable results of umbilical cord blood and matched sibling donor hematopoietic stem cell transplant after non-myeloablative conditioning for advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Blood2006, 107(9): 3804-7.

NS Majhail, L Wood, P Elson, J Finke, T Olencki, RM Bukowski. Adjuvant subcutaneous low-dose interleukin-2 in patients with resected high risk renal cell carcinoma: a pilot study. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer 2006, 5(1): 50-6.

NS Majhail, LJ Burns. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for the treatment of peripheral T-cell lymphomas. Current Hematology Reports 2005, 4(4): 252-9.

NS Majhail, M Hussein, TE Olencki, GT Budd, L Wood, P Elson, RM Bukowski. Phase-I trial of continuous infusion recombinant interleukin-4 in patients with cancer. Investigational New Drugs 2004, 22(4): 421-6.

NS Majhail, JL Urbain, JM Albani, MH Kanvinde, TW Rice, AC Novick, TM Mekhail, TE Olencki, P Elson, RM Bukowski. F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the evaluation of distant metastases from renal cell carcinoma. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2003, 21(21): 3995-4000.

NS Majhail, P Elson, RM Bukowski. Therapy and outcome of small cell carcinoma of the kidney: report of two cases and a systematic review of the literature. Cancer 2003, 97(6): 1436-41.

NS Majhail, S Chander, VS Mehta, PK Julka, T Ganesh, GK Rath. Factors influencing early complications following Gamma Knife radiosurgery: A prospective study. Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery 2001, 76(1): 36-46.

KS Chao, NS Majhail, C Huang, JR Simpson, CA Perez, B Haughey, G Spector. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy reduces late salivary toxicity without compromising tumor control in patients with oropharyngeal carcinoma: a comparison with conventional techniques. Radiotherapy & Oncology 2001, 61(3): 275-80.