
Overview
Arun Bhandari, M.D. is a native of Maryland and grew up in Silver Spring area. He earned his medical degree from Punjabi University and Government Medical College, Punjab, India and completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at New York University program in Queens, NY. He completed his Hematology and Oncology fellowship at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, Georgetown University and Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC and NHLBI at National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD. He served as a chief fellow at Georgetown University and Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C. After completing his fellowship in 2005, he joined as faculty at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA, where he was actively involved in teaching fellows and residents. He joined COHA in 2007 at which time he opened a location in Annapolis and Kent Island. He has interest in head and neck cancer, brain cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal cancer(colon, pancreas, liver, gastric, esophageal etc.), genitourinary cancer (kidney, prostate, bladder etc.), gynecological cancer (ovarian, uterine, cervical, vaginal etc.), skin cancer, Lymphoma, Myeloma, Leukemia and various other blood disorders. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and American Society of Hematology. He currently sees patients at Annapolis Cancer Center and Kent Island Center. He speaks English, Hindi, and Punjabi.
Dr. Bhandari is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Acute Erythroid Leukemia (AEL). His top areas of expertise are Pleuropulmonary Blastoma, Multiple Myeloma, Iron Deficiency Anemia, and Childhood Iron Deficiency Anemia.
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Locations
129 Lubrano Drive, Suite 201, Suite 201, Annapolis, MD 21401
Evan Braunstein is a Hematologist Oncology specialist and a Hematologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Braunstein is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Acute Erythroid Leukemia (AEL). His top areas of expertise are Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN), Essential Thrombocythemia, Myelofibrosis, Sickle Cell Disease, and Bone Marrow Aspiration. Dr. Braunstein is currently accepting new patients.
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Ivana Gojo is a Hematologist/Oncologist in Baltimore. Her clinical focus is on diagnosis and management of patients with acute leukemias (AML, ALL) and other myeloid malignancies (MDS, MPNs, CML), with emphasis on the development of novel therapeutic approaches for these diseases. She is nationally and internationally recognized expert in clinical translation of novel therapeutics for acute leukemias and principal investigator on multiple multi-center investigator-initiated studies. Dr. Gojo joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2012 as the Co-Director of Leukemia Drug Development Program. She has served on the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Investigational Drug Steering Committee since 2014. Dr. Gojo received a Service Star Award from Johns Hopkins Medicine Service Excellence in 2018 for her exemplary care of leukemia patients. Dr. Gojo contributed to the clinical translational and drug development effort of multiple novel agents targeting pathogenic pathways in patients with acute leukemia. Her research efforts are now concentrated on the development and integration of novel immunotherapies into therapeutic armamentarium for patients with acute leukemia. She mentors basic and clinical research fellows and junior faculty on the development and design of novel clinical trials and mechanistic laboratory studies associated with these trials. She served as a leukemia team leader on the National Institute of Health (NIH)/NCI N01 grant (Phase II consortium) (2009-2011), and is co-principal investigator (PI) on the Experimental Therapeutics (ET)-Clinical Trial Network (CTN) UM1 grant supporting early clinical trials. Dr. Gojo has served on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline panel for AML since 2019, Myeloid Growth Factor guideline panel since 2015 and previously served on the MPNs guideline panel (2016-2019). She has extensive experience in the regulatory aspects of drug development and served as the Chair (2015-2016) and Co-Chair (2014-2015) of the Cancer Research Review Committee at Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (SKCCC) at Johns Hopkins, and serves as a member of the SKCCC Biostatistics Core Advisory Committee and SKCCC Clinical Research Office Coordinating Center Oversight Committee. Dr. Gojo is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Acute Erythroid Leukemia (AEL). Her top areas of expertise are Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Leukemia, Bone Marrow Aspiration, and Bone Marrow Transplant.
Johns Hopkins University
Lukasz Gondek is a Hematologist Oncology specialist and a Hematologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Gondek is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Acute Erythroid Leukemia (AEL). His top areas of expertise are Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia without Maturation, Acute Monoblastic Leukemia (AmoL), Bone Marrow Aspiration, and Bone Marrow Transplant. Dr. Gondek is currently accepting new patients.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- Pleuropulmonary BlastomaDr. Bhandari isDistinguished. Learn about Pleuropulmonary Blastoma.
- Advanced
- Childhood Iron Deficiency AnemiaDr. Bhandari isAdvanced. Learn about Childhood Iron Deficiency Anemia.
- Chronic B-Cell Leukemia (CBCL)Dr. Bhandari isAdvanced. Learn about Chronic B-Cell Leukemia (CBCL).
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)Dr. Bhandari isAdvanced. Learn about Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL).
- Colorectal CancerDr. Bhandari isAdvanced. Learn about Colorectal Cancer.
- HemochromatosisDr. Bhandari isAdvanced. Learn about Hemochromatosis.
- Iron Deficiency AnemiaDr. Bhandari isAdvanced. Learn about Iron Deficiency Anemia.
- Experienced
- Acute Erythroid Leukemia (AEL)Dr. Bhandari isExperienced. Learn about Acute Erythroid Leukemia (AEL).
- Acute Mountain SicknessDr. Bhandari isExperienced. Learn about Acute Mountain Sickness.
- Adult Immune ThrombocytopeniaDr. Bhandari isExperienced. Learn about Adult Immune Thrombocytopenia.
- Adult Soft Tissue SarcomaDr. Bhandari isExperienced. Learn about Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma.
- AgranulocytosisDr. Bhandari isExperienced. Learn about Agranulocytosis.
- ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung CancerDr. Bhandari isExperienced. Learn about ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
