M.D.
Hematologist-Oncologist
Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi, India
Internal Medicine, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA
Amandeep Salhotra, MD, is a hematologist-oncologist at City of Hope® Cancer Center Duarte’s Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, where he also serves as an associate professor. He has a special interest in treating all types of adult and pediatric leukemia.
Dr. Salhotra earned his bachelor’s and medical doctorate in pediatrics at Maulana Azad Medical College at the University of Delhi in India. He then served as a senior resident in pediatrics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi before moving to the United States for a research fellowship in neuro-oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. His training continued with an internal medicine residency and a hematology-oncology fellowship at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, followed by an additional hematology-oncology fellowship at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He came to City of Hope in 2012, where he completed his bone marrow transplant fellowship.
During his training, Dr. Salhotra received the Arnold P. Gold Award for Humanism and Excellence in Teaching (2009) and the Farrow Fellowship Award for translational cancer research (2011). He has authored 40 peer-reviewed publications and 12 abstracts and is frequently invited to present at national and international scientific meetings. His clinical expertise includes treating patients with acute leukemia, performing hematopoietic cell transplants and managing transplant-related complications such as acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease.