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Sara Ashraf, MD
Kelsey-Seybold Medical Group Provider
PointerLanguage(s): English, Urdu
11555 University Blvd.,
Sugar Land,
TX
77478
Joined Kelsey-Seybold: January 2022
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Sara Ashraf, MD, is a board-certified, fellowship-trained Hematology/Oncology specialist at Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. She earned her medical degree in 2011 at Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences in Karachi, Pakistan. In 2018, she completed the Yale-New Haven Waterbury Internal Medicine Residency Program at Yale School of Medicine in Waterbury, Conn. She completed her Hematology/Oncology fellowship in 2019 at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University and the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center in Huntington, W.V.
Dr. Ashraf is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology.
Dr. Ashraf enjoys traveling, cooking fusion cuisines, and reading.
Fun Facts
The best advice Dr. Ashraf has ever received is “Always treat others how you would want to be treated.”
Dr. Ashraf’s guilty pleasures are chocolate and ice cream.
In 2020, Dr. Ashraf was presented with the West Virginia Oncology Society Award for Fellows for Lung Cancer Screening. In 2018, she was the only resident physician to earn the ACE Award for compassion toward patients.
Publications and Presentations
- “Improving Residents’ Knowledge of Peripheral Smears”
Sara Ashraf, Mina Shenouda
ASH/Blood, 2021 - “Insomnia in cancer patients”
Sara Ashraf, Mohammad Ali S. Jafri, Mohamed Alsharedi
Presented at ASCO in 2021 and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, June 2021 - “Need for smoking cessation counseling in cancer patients”
Sara Ashraf, Mohamed Alsharedi
Journal of National Comprehensive Cancer Network (JNCCN), March 2021 - “A Fatal Case of Pneumonitis and Hypogammaglobulinemia with Use of a CDK 4/6 Inhibitor in Metastatic Breast Cancer”
Stem Cell Investigation, 2021 - “Checkpoint inhibitors: literature review of new treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma.”
Loyana Biglow, Sara Ashraf, Mohamed Alsharedi
Stem Cell Investigation, October 2021 - “Response of advanced squamous cell carcinoma to immunotherapy”
Sara Ashraf, Mohamed Alsharedi
Stem Cell Investigation, September 2021 - “COVID-19 induced immune thrombocytopenic purpura”
Sara Ashraf, Mohamed Alsharedi
Stem Cell Investigation, July 2021 - “Use of immunotherapy in extensive-stage small cell lung carcinoma”
Venu Madhav Konala, Bhasker Reddy Madhira, Sara Ashraf, Stephen Graziano
Oncology, November 2020 - “Underutilization of low-dose computed tomography in a high-risk population”
Sara Ashraf, Venu Madhav Konala, Mohammad Ali S. Jafri
ASCO Annual Meeting, Journal of Clinical Oncology, June 2020 - “Hypercalcemia presenting as the initial manifestation of lymphoma”
Venu Madhav Konala, Sara Ashraf et al
SCIREA Journal of Medicine, May 2020 - “Paraneoplastic syndromes in lung cancer and their management”
Asad Anwar, Firas Jafri, Sara Ashraf, Mohammad Ali S. Jafri, Michael Fannuchi
Annals of Translational Medicine, August 2019 - “HIT the nail on the head: Heparin induced thrombocytopenia with skin necrosis”
Sara Ashraf, Mohammad Ali Jafri
Stem Cell Investigation, July 2017 - “Blues clues”
Phlegmasia cerulea dolens in a patient with extramedullary AML
Sara Ashraf, Ali Aamar
Stem Cell Investigation, July 2017 - “Carotenoids and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease”
Bahiddin Yilmaz, Kazim Sachin, Hande Bilen, Ibrahim Bahcecioglu, Birdal Bilir, Sara Ashraf, Karim Halazun, Omer Kucuk
Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition, June 2015
Locations
Fort Bend Medical and Diagnostic Center
11555 University Blvd.,
Sugar Land,
TX
77478
Hospital Affiliations
- CHI Baylor St Lukes Medical Center
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