DR. RAJESH KUMAR

Asian Journal of Transfusion Medicine (AJTM), International society of blood transfusion (ISBT), Indian Society of Transfusion Medicine (ISTM), Indian Society of Blood Transfusion (Punjab Chapter), Indian Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBTI), Asian Association of Transfusion Medicine (AATM). 

• Gupta S, Bhargava S, Kumar R, Kakkar S. Effect of iron overload on bone mineral density in patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia. Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 2025;73: 40-4.
• Kumar R, Gupta S, Kaur H, Kaur S, John JM. Impact of nucleic acid testing in double screening of blood donations in Northern India: A single-center experience. Journal of Laboratory Physicians 2024;16:338-44
• Gurika, Gupta S, Kumar R, Bansal Priya. To Determine the Blood Donor Deferral Pattern and Its Causes Among Blood Donors in Tertiary Care Hospital. Int. Journal of Health Sciences and Research 2024;14:428-34.
• Ghotra BK, Gupta S, Kumar R. Prevalence of Red Cell Alloantibodies Among Cohort of Healthy Blood Donors in Tertiary Care Hospital – A Step Towards Blood Safety. Internal Journal of Contemporary Medical Research 2024;11:11-5.
• Gupta S, Kumar R. Phenotype of Rh and Kell blood group antigen in thalassemia and its impact on alloimmunization in a tertiary care hospital. Journal of Laboratory Physicians 2024; 16: 1-6.
• Singh S, Sharma R, Singh J, Jain K, Kumar R, Narang V. Autologous stem cell transplantation can potentially reverse dialysis dependence in patients with myeloma: Report of two cases and practical considerations. The National Medical Journal of India 2024;37: 1-3. 
• Chopra G, Kataria M, Batra AK, Kaur G, and Kumar R. Detection of a weaker subgroup of A in ABO blood group system. Asian Journal of Transfusion Science 2022;16: 132-4. 
• Singh S, Kakkar S, Singh K, Kumar R, Gupta S. Considerations for Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Apheresis in a Low Body Weifht Infant. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 2022; 44:e816-e8.
• Agarwal A, Mukherjee A, Kumar G, Chatterjee P, Bhatnagar  T, Malhotra                        P, Kumar R et al. Convalescent plasma in the management of moderate covid-  19 in adults in India: open label phase II multicentre randomized control trail (PLACID Trail). BMJ 2020;371:m3939 | doi 10.1136/bmj.m.3939
• Kumar R, Shyamala V, elie N, Kumar P, Kaur A. A nucleic acid amplification repeat testing algorithm reveals high risk of hepatitis B and C transmission with serologic blood screening practice in Punjab. ISBT Science Series 2018; 13: 141-9.

1^st Prize in the state, by the Punjab State Blood Transfusion Council under the department of health and family welfare