
Sailaja Kamaraju, MD
Assistant Professor
Locations
- Froedtert Hospital
- Froedtert West Bend Hospital
- Cancer Center - Froedtert Hospital
- Cancer Center - Drexel Town Square Health Center
Specialties
- Hematology
- Medical Oncology
Languages
- English
Contact Information
Education
- MD - Doctor of Medicine
Biography
Prior to joining the Medical College of Wisconsin, Dr. Kamaraju served as clinical Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison and as Medical Director for the Vince Lombardi Cancer Center at Aurora Wilkinson Medical Clinic in Summit.
Research Interests
Dr. Kamaraju’s research focus is in toxicities of cancer treatments and cancer-related outcomes. Her current projects include cardiovascular outcomes with adjuvant endocrine therapy in breast cancer survivors. This project includes analysis of a national Medicare database of breast cancer survivors that enables evaluation of cardiovascular outcomes. She is an active member in the Cardio-Oncology working group at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Dr. Kamaraju's current research project, “Reducing Mortality by Screening Mammography Among Asian, Somali and Bosnian Refugees,” is funded by the Susan G. Komen Foundation. She won the 2015 Champions in Women’s Health Award funded by Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation, which honors individuals who devote themselves for improving the quality of life for women and their families in their professional career.
She has been actively involved in the community for the past several years with various community outreach projects focusing on racial, cultural and financial disparities in relation to cancer prevention and survivorship. She is founder of the Asian Women Health Forum Projects: Women’s Day – Annual Fall Educational Seminars for Asian Women, which promotes health education, gynecological cancer prevention and development of models to improve cultural barriers to promote breast health awareness for minority Asian women. She is a member of Survivorship and Community Engagement Advisory Committees at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Kamaraju is currently partnering with several community sites to serve women with various cultural, language and financial barriers in their breast health education, and screening mammography under Susan G. Komen Foundation Educational grant in collaboration. This project has evolved into a community-academic partnership model with almost 12-15 partnering sites including Wisconsin Well Woman Program and the regional mobile mammographic coach serving several communities that we live in.
Publications
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Aromatase Inhibitor Symptom Management Practices: A Retrospective Study.
(Ernst A, Flynn KE, Weil EM, Crotty BH, Kamaraju S, Fergestrom N, Neuner J.) Clin Breast Cancer. 2020 Jul 22 PMID: 33183969 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85096389569 11/14/2020
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Cancer Prevention in Low-Resource Countries: An Overview of the Opportunity.
(Kamaraju S, Drope J, Sankaranarayanan R, Shastri S.) Am Soc Clin Oncol Educ Book. 2020 Mar;40:1-12 PMID: 32239989 04/03/2020
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(McDowell BD, Klemp J, Blaes A, Cohee AA, Trentham-Dietz A, Kamaraju S, Otte JL, Mott SL, Chrischilles EA.) Support Care Cancer. 2020 Feb;28(2):887-895 PMID: 31168710 PMCID: PMC6893112 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85067236293 06/07/2019
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(Kamaraju S, Olson J, DeNomie M, Visotcky A, Banerjee A, Asan O, Tavares E, Rao A, LaCroix M, Krause K, Neuner J, Stolley M.) J Cancer Educ. 2019 Dec;34(6):1092-1096 PMID: 30091014 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85051532560 08/10/2018
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(Sailaja Kamaraju, Amanda Jacquart, Samantha Stachowiak, Jennifer Geurts, Morgan Deepas, Jessica Olson, Lubna Chaudhary, Christopher Chitambar, Joan Neuner, Yee CChung Cheng.) Annals of Public Health Reports. 05/21/2019
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(Kamaraju S, Shi Y, Smith E, Nattinger AB, Laud P, Neuner J.) Clin Cardiol. 2019 Jan;42(1):93-100 PMID: 30443921 PMCID: PMC6344290 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85058116490 11/18/2018
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(Chaudhary LN, Jawa Z, Hanif A, Szabo A, Kamaraju S, Cheng YC, Chitambar CR.) WMJ. 2018 Jun;117(2):62-67 PMID: 30048574 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85051516380 07/27/2018
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(Kamaraju S, DeNomie M, Visotcky A, Banerjee A, Krause K, Tavares E, Rao A, Drew E, Neuner J, Stolley M.) WMJ. 2018 Jun;117(2):55-61 PMID: 30048573 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85051563507 07/27/2018
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Fractures in a nationwide population-based cohort of users of breast cancer hormonal therapy.
(Neuner JM, Shi Y, Kong AL, Kamaraju S, Smith EC, Smallwood AJ, Laud PW, Charlson JA.) J Cancer Surviv. 2018 04;12(2):268-275 PMID: 29243101 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85038093950 12/16/2017
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(Julie Hunley, Sailaja Kamaraju, Phyllis Holder, Aniko Szabo, Rita Burlingame-Toppen, Melinda Stolley.) Cancer Medicine Journal. Med J 2018: 1(1) 3-11 09/10/2018
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(Sailaja Kamaraju.) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 07/24/2017
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(Cole Lightfoot, Carolyn Oxencis, Elizabeth Weil, Angela Urmanksi, Briana Amundson, Lisa Rein, Sailaja Kamaraju.) Open Journal of Cardiology and Heart Diseases. DOI: 10.31031/OJCHD.2019.03.000554 10/31/2019