
Avanthi Tayi Shah, MD
Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English,

Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2009)
- Residency
- UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2012), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Standford University School of Medicine (2016), Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Hematology-Oncology
Conditions
- Anaplastic Astrocytoma
- Ependymoma
- Ewing's Sarcoma
- Glioblastoma
- Hepatoblastoma (Liver Cancer)
- Lymphoma
- Medulloblastoma
- Neuroblastoma
- Non-Rhabdomyosarcoma Soft Tissue Sarcoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Pilocytic Astrocytoma
- Retinoblastoma
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Wilms Tumor (Nephroblastoma)
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
- Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
- Germ cell tumors
- Glioma
- Hodgkin Lymphoma
- Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Kidney cancer
- Pineoblastoma
- Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (PNET)
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Precision Medicine Cancer Genetics Sarcoma
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Publications
- Genome-Informed Targeted Therapy for Osteosarcoma. Sayles LC, Breese MR, Koehne AL, Leung SG, Lee AG, Liu HY, Spillinger A, Shah AT, Tanasa B, Straessler K, Hazard FK, Spunt SL, Marina N, Kim GE, Cho SJ, Avedian RS, Mohler DG, Kim MO, DuBois SG, Hawkins DS, Sweet-Cordero EA. Cancer Discov. 2019 Jan;9(1):46-63. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-17-1152. Epub 2018 Sep 28.
- Hydra: A mixture modeling framework for subtyping pediatric cancer cohorts using multimodal gene expression signatures. Pfeil J, Sanders LM, Anastopoulos I, Lyle AG, Weinstein AS, Xue Y, Blair A, Beale HC, Lee A, Leung SG, Dinh PT, Shah AT, Breese MR, Devine WP, Bjork I, Salama SR, Sweet-Cordero EA, Haussler D, Vaske OM. PLoS Comput Biol. 2020 Apr 10;16(4):e1007753. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007753. eCollection 2020 Apr.
- An Unusual Parotid Mass in a 14-Year-Old Female. Leavitt T, Shah AT, Singh V, Mitchell RB, Liu CC. Ear Nose Throat J. 2021. Shah AT, Azad TD, Breese MR, Chabon JJ, Hamilton EG, Straessler K, Kurtz DM, Leung SG, Spillinger A, Liu HY, Behroozfard IH, Wittber FM, Hazard FK, Cho SJ, Daldrup-Link HE, Vo KT, Rangaswami A, Pribnow A, Spunt SL, Lacayo NJ, Diehn M, Alizadeh AA, Sweet-Cordero EA. A Comprehensive Circulating Tumor DNA Assay for Detection of Translocation and Copy-Number Changes in Pediatric Sarcomas. Mol Cancer Ther. 2021.
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