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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My Biography
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Professional Background
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Professional Associations
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Hobbies and Interests
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Awards & Publications
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
Accepted Insurance
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans
Blue Cross Blue Shield
The specific BCBSTX PPO and HMO plans in which Kelsey-Seybold participates are:
- Blue Edge PPO
- Blue Essentials HMO Click here to learn more about selecting a Kelsey Primary Care Physician
- Blue Choice PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program (Basic and Standard Option)
- Health Select of Texas - ERS
- TRS-ActiveCare Primary Click here to learn more about selecting a Kelsey Primary Care Physician
- TRS-ActiveCare Primary+ Click here to learn more about selecting a Kelsey Primary Care Physician
- TRS-ActiveCare HD
- TRS-ActiveCare 2
- UT SELECT
Kelsey-Seybold will not participate in the following BCBSTX plans: Blue Premier, Blue High-Performance network, Marketplace plans: My Blue Health, and Blue Advantage HMO, or any BCBSTX Medicare products. View FAQ (pdf)
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Cigna Plans
Cigna
- KelseyCare powered by Cigna (learn more)
- Choice Fund PPO
- Choice Fund Open Access Plus (OAP)
- Cigna EPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna KelseyCare
- Cigna HMO Open Access (OA)
- Cigna HMO Open Access Plus (OAP)
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- Cigna Consumer Driven Health Plan (CDHP)
- Cigna Surefit
- LocalPlus
- LocalPlus IN
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Humana Plans
Humana
- KelseyCare Humana (learn more)
- Humana Choice POS
- Humana COT National POS Open Access
- Humana EPO PPO Open Access
- Humana Houston HMOx
- Humana National EPO
- Humana HMO Premier (Open Access)
- Humana PPO
- Humana Preferred PPO
- Humana Preferred POS (Open Access)
- Humana/ ChoiceCare Network PPO
- Humana/ChoiceCare+ Network PPO
- Humana National POS- Open Access
- Humana National POS-Open Access Plus
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Aetna Plans
Aetna KelseyCare (learn more)
Aetna PPO, POS, and EPO Plans
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic is an in-network provider for most Aetna PPO, POS, and EPO plans*, including:
- Aetna Select
- Open Access Select
- Elect Choice
- Aetna Open Access Elect Choice
- Aetna Choice POS II
- Managed Choice
- Open Choice PPO
Aetna IVL (Marketplace)
ON Exchange Effective January 1, 2022
- Aetna CVS Bronze: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston HMO
- Aetna CVS Bronze: Low-Cost Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston HMO
- Aetna CVS Silver 2: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston HMO
- Aetna CVS Gold: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston HMO
- Aetna CVS Silver 1: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston HMO
OFF Exchange Effective January 1, 2022
- Aetna CVS Bronze: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston HMO
- Aetna CVS Bronze: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston, Ped Dental HMO
- Aetna CVS Silver 2: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston, Ped Dental HMO
- Aetna CVS Bronze: Low-Cost Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston HMO
- Aetna CVS Bronze: Low-Cost Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston, Ped Dental HMO
- Aetna CVS Silver 1: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston, Ped Dental HMO
- Aetna CVS Silver 2: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston HMO
- Aetna CVS Silver 3: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston, Ped Dental HMO
- Aetna CVS Gold: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston HMO
- Aetna CVS Gold: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston, Ped Dental HMO
- Aetna CVS Silver 1: $0 Walk-In Clinic Visits, Telehealth, Store Discounts, Houston HMO
*Kelsey-Seybold does not participate in any commercial Aetna HMO and HNO plans, including Aetna QPOS.
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UnitedHealthcare Plans
UnitedHealthcare (UHC)
- United Charter Kelsey-Seybold (learn more)
- UnitedHealthcare Charter
- UnitedHealthcare Choice
- UnitedHealthcare Choice Plus
- UnitedHealthcare Core
- UnitedHealthcare Core Plus
- UnitedHealthcare Navigate
- UnitedHealthcare Navigate Plus
- UnitedHealthcare NexusACO
- UnitedHealthcare Options PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Select
- UnitedHealthcare Select Plus
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KelseyCare Health Plans
Local employers can add a KelseyCare plan alongside current plan offerings. Over 400 Houston-area employers offer the choice of a KelseyCare plan to their employees.
KelseyCare plans include:
- Aetna KelseyCare (learn more)
- KelseyCare powered by Cigna (learn more)
- KelseyCare Humana (learn more)
- United Charter Kelsey-Seybold (learn more)
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Other Plans
Allied Benefit Systems/NGBS
Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB)
- APWU Health Plan Nationwide – CDHP with UnitedHealthcare PPO
- APWU Health Plan Nationwide – High Option with Cigna PPO
- GEHA Benefit Plan Nationwide – High & Standard Options with UnitedHealthcare Choice Plus
- NALC Nationwide with Cigna OAP
- NALC Value Option Nationwide with Cigna OAP
- SAMBA Nationwide – High & Standard with Cigna OAP
- Blue Cross Blue Shield – Standard Option
- Blue Cross Blue Shield – Basic Option
Great West Healthcare (also known as Cigna-GWH)
- POS
- PPO
- Open Access
HealthSmart PPO
Medicare
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic accepts the following Medicare Advantage Plans: KelseyCare Advantage, Aetna Medicare Advantage PPO and WellCare TexanPlus plans. Effective January 1, 2009, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic does not accept new patients with traditional Medicare.
MultiPlan PPO
Private Healthcare Systems PPO (PHCS)
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Medicare Advantage Plans