Anita D'Souza, MD

Associate Professor

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Locations

Cancer Center - Froedtert Hospital

Specialties

Hematology
Medical Oncology

Languages

English, Hindi

Contact Information

(414) 805-0505

Education

MD - Doctor of Medicine

Biography

Anita D’Souza, MD, MS completed medical school in Goa Medical College, India where she graduated at the top of her class and was voted Best Medical Graduate. She completed her Hematology and Medical Oncology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota.

Research Interests

Dr. D'Souza's clinical and research work is focused on plasma cell cancers (e.g. multiple myeloma, AL amyloidosis, POEMS syndrome, Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia) and the use of hematopoietic cell transplantation to treat these diseases. She serves as a scientific director of the Plasma Cell Disorders and Adult Solid Tumors working committee in the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR). She is principal investigator on clinical trials in amyloidosis and multiple myeloma. She is a recipient of the 2016 KL2 Career Development Award from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Dr. D’Souza is board certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology.

Salvage second transplantation in relapsed multiple myeloma.

(Dhakal B, D'Souza A, Kleman A, Chhabra S, Mohan M, Hari P.) Leukemia. 2021 Apr;35(4):1214-1217 PMID: 32747684 PMCID: PMC8020391 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85088870056 08/05/2020
Bronchoalveolar lavage-based COVID-19 testing in patients with cancer.

(Abid MB, Chhabra S, Buchan B, Graham MB, Abedin S, Thapa B, D'Souza A, George B, Hamadani M.) Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther. 2021 Mar;14(1):65-70 PMID: 33058787 PMCID: PMC7543702 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85092735525 10/16/2020
Autonomic nervous system control of multiple myeloma.

(Cheng Y, Sun F, D'Souza A, Dhakal B, Pisano M, Chhabra S, Stolley M, Hari P, Janz S.) Blood Rev. 2021 Mar;46:100741 PMID: 32807576 PMCID: PMC7876165 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85089534779 08/19/2020
Changes in patient-reported outcomes in light chain amyloidosis in the first year after diagnosis and relationship to NT-proBNP change.

(D'Souza A, Brazauskas R, Dispenzieri A, Panepinto J, Flynn KE.) Blood Cancer J. 2021 Feb 01;11(2):29 PMID: 33563897 PMCID: PMC7873213 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100803682 02/11/2021
The IL-6 antagonist tocilizumab is associated with worse depression and related symptoms in the medically ill.

(Knight JM, Costanzo ES, Singh S, Yin Z, Szabo A, Pawar DS, Hillard CJ, Rizzo JD, D'Souza A, Pasquini M, Coe CL, Irwin MR, Raison CL, Drobyski WR.) Transl Psychiatry. 2021 01 18;11(1):58 PMID: 33462203 PMCID: PMC7812704 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100097244 01/20/2021
Pre-transplant marital status and hematopoietic cell transplantation outcomes.

(Tay J, Beattie S, Bredeson C, Brazauskas R, He N, Ahmed IA, Aljurf M, Askar M, Atsuta Y, Badawy S, Barata A, Beitinjaneh AM, Bhatt NS, Buchbinder D, Cerny J, Ciurea S, D'Souza A, Dalal J, Farhadfar N, Freytes CO, Ganguly S, Gergis U, Gerull S, Lazarus HM, Hahn T, Hong S, Inamoto Y, Khera N, Kindwall-Keller T, Kamble RT, Knight JM, Koleva YN, Kumar A, Kwok J, Murthy HS, Olsson RF, Angel Diaz-Perez M, Rizzieri D, Seo S, Chhabra S, Schoemans H, Schouten HC, Steinberg A, Sullivan KM, Szer J, Szwajcer D, Ulrickson ML, Verdonck LF, Wirk B, Wood WA, Yared JA, Saber W.) Curr Oncol. 2020 12;27(6):e596-e606 PMID: 33380875 PMCID: PMC7755447 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85099179182 01/01/2021
Age no bar: A CIBMTR analysis of elderly patients undergoing autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation for multiple myeloma.

(Munshi PN, Vesole D, Jurczyszyn A, Zaucha JM, St Martin A, Davila O, Agrawal V, Badawy SM, Battiwalla M, Chhabra S, Copelan E, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Farhadfar N, Ganguly S, Hashmi S, Krem MM, Lazarus HM, Malek E, Meehan K, Murthy HS, Nishihori T, Olin RL, Olsson RF, Schriber J, Seo S, Shah G, Solh M, Tay J, Kumar S, Qazilbash MH, Shah N, Hari PN, D'Souza A.) Cancer. 2020 Dec 01;126(23):5077-5087 PMID: 32965680 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85091306660 09/24/2020
Propylene Glycol-Free Melphalan versus PG-Melphalan as Conditioning for Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Myeloma.

(Monahan K, Kleman A, Thapa B, Szabo A, D'Souza A, Dhakal B, Jerkins JH, Pasquini MC, Hamadani M, Hari PN, Chhabra S.) Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2020 12;26(12):2229-2236 PMID: 32920204 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85092250990 09/14/2020
Busulfan, melphalan, and bortezomib compared to melphalan as a high dose regimen for autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in multiple myeloma: long term follow up of a novel high dose regimen.

(Hagen P, D'Souza A, Hari P, Davila O, Zhang MJ, Vesole DH, Smith SE, Rodriguez TE, Stiff PJ.) Leuk Lymphoma. 2020 12;61(14):3484-3492 PMID: 32865474 PMCID: PMC7786301 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85089967898 09/01/2020
Reporting of race and ethnicity at an international haematology conference.

(Mehta A, Fillmore N, Dahiya S, D'Souza A, Sweetenham J, Kansagra A.) Br J Haematol. 2020 12;191(5):e107-e109 PMID: 32862435 08/31/2020
Novel prognostic scoring system for autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation in multiple myeloma.

(Dhakal B, D'Souza A, Callander N, Chhabra S, Fraser R, Davila O, Anderson K, Assal A, Badawy SM, Berdeja J, Cerny J, Comenzo R, Chakraborty R, Peter Gale R, Kamble R, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Krem M, Ganguly S, Janakiram M, Kansagra A, Munker R, Murthy H, Patel S, Kumar S, Shah N, Qazilbash M, Hari P.) Br J Haematol. 2020 11;191(3):442-452 PMID: 33094839 PMCID: PMC7990054 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85088463591 10/24/2020
African Americans with translocation t(11;14) have superior survival after autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation for multiple myeloma in comparison with Whites in the United States.

(Badar T, Hari P, Dávila O, Fraser R, Wirk B, Dhakal B, Freytes CO, Rodriguez Valdes C, Lee C, Vesole DH, Malek E, Hildebrandt GC, Landau H, Murthy HS, Lazarus HM, Berdeja JG, Meehan KR, Solh M, Diaz MA, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Callander NS, Farhadfar N, Bashir Q, Kamble RT, Vij R, Munker R, Kyle RA, Chhabra S, Hashmi S, Ganguly S, Jagannath S, Nishihori T, Nieto Y, Kumar S, Shah N, D'Souza A.) Cancer. 2020 Jan 01;127(1):82-92 PMID: 32966625 PMCID: PMC7736245 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85091313309 09/24/2020