Dr (Col) Jasjit Singh is an eminent  Senior Consultant Haematology  Oncology,Blood and marrow transplant physician 

He specialises in Haemato-oncology, Bone marrow transplantation, Preventive Oncology, Pain and Palliative care, and Onco-genetic counselling.

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He has 34 years of Medical experience in treating patients with a wide spectrum of diseases. He did his M.B.B.S from the prestigious Armed Force Medical College (AFMC) Pune, MD in Internal Medicine from Delhi University and Fellowship in Clinical Hematology and BMT from AIIMS, New Delhi.

 

He has worked in the premier hospitals of Armed Forces like AFMC , Army hospital (R&R) New Delhi and is now Senior Consultant and HOD of Clinical Haematology and Blood and Marrow Transplant at Sir Gangaram Hospital New Delhi.

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He has treated a wide range of patients having blood diseases both Benign as well as Blood Cancers , Lymphomas, Myelomas and done more than 300 Bone Marrow Transplants. His main field of interests are treating all Blood Cancers,Anaemias,Lymphomas,Myelomas,Platelet Disorders,MDS and Bone Marrow Transplants.

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Being From the Armed Forces, he attempts to ensure ethical,honest standard of his care of the patients. His team ensures meticulous record of the disease both in digital as well hard copy and is available 24*7 to the patients. 

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During this period, He conducted more than 305  Bone Marrow Transplants.He has keen interests in the diagnosis,evaluation and treatment of Haemato-oncology, Pediatric cancers and Bone Marrow Transplants. He has rich experience in Immunotherapy, and Targeted Cancer therapy.

Dr(Col) Jasjit Singh is dedicated to promoting research and the advancement of treatment in the field of oncology. He has been involved in various oncology trials. 

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He is a keen participant and organiser of Multidisciplinary Tumor Board Meets attended by Surgical Oncologists, Radiation Oncologists, Pathologists, Radiologists, and Allied Specialty Clinicians. He also actively participates and speaks at national and international meetings.

His principal motivation is to perform more clinical and research work in Solid Oncology, Hemato-oncology, and work on pharmaco-economics in Oncology while growing along with the organisation’s goal and work ethics.

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Dr( Col) Jasjit Singh  is very compassionate and has been providing care for his patients with a soft and nurturing touch. He believes in treating patients as part of his professional family and makes sure to involve the patient’s family in decision making. He and his team develop a personal commitment to the patients they serve.

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His dedication to learning new techniques and expertise helps him ensure that every patient gets the most “Effective, Ethical, Effective” and the safest, comprehensive cancer care.

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All of Dr( Col) Jasjit Singh’s patients, recognise and applaud his compassionate bedside manners, his lucidity during consultations. However busy his schedule may be, he ensures optimal time for patient and their attenders’ queries. He has a deep conviction that best results are achieved by “Treating the patient and not the disease alone”. He always ensures that cancer patients are given  A Holistic treatment includes empathetic counselling of the patient and their family about the overall plan of management, financial implication , OPD care ,supportive and symptomatic care and the assurance to be available so that quality of life is maintained at their best possible levels.

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Professional Work Experience
• Commissioned in the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) of the Indian Army in June 1988 and did internship in the busiest Hospital of the Armed Forcesie Base Hospital Delhi Cantt.
 
• From  1989 to 1995 worked as a Primary care medical officer, serving as a doctor to Indian Army troops in operational and difficult terrain of J & K and later as Medical Officer at Military Hospital Kirkee, Pune.
Main Activities & Responsibilities : Managed emergencies and accidents in specialties of Surgery, Medicine, Gynecology and Pediatrics Clinical inpatient and outpatient work in above specialties. Teaching of nursing and paramedic staff.
 
• From 1995 to 1998 did my advanced course /MD in internal medicine form Army Hospital (R&R) New Delhi, Delhi University.
 
• After completing Post Graduation in Internal Medicine, worked as a Physician/ Medical Specialist form  1998 to 2004 at a Military Hospital in Gangtok, Sikkim, followed by Military Hospital, Amritsar (Punjab).
 
• From 01 Jan 2005 to 31 Dec 2006 (02 years) did fellowship  and Long Term Training (LTT) in clinical Heamaotology and sTem Cell Transplantion at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.
 
• From Dec 2006 to July 2011 (4.5 years) served as Clinical Heamatologist and Bone Marrow transplant specialist at Command Hospital (Southern Command), Pune and Armed forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune. Performed duties as HOD of the dept and established new dept in the hospital. Was Associate Professor in the dept of internal medicine, AFMC Pune (5 years).
 
• From July  2011 to July  2016 worked at the premier hospital of the armed forces, Army Hospital (R&R), New Delhi as Senior Advisor Clinical Heamatology and Bone Marrow Transplantation. Worked as HOD for 1 year. Worked as part of a team of Clinical Heamatologists, Heamatopathologists, Transplant Immunologist, Microbiologists etc who actively and as a cohesive unit participated in treating the most challenging hematological cases, benign as well as malignant and did both Autologous and Allogenic blood and bone marrow transplants.
 
• From Aug 2016 to date (Feb 2020), ie 3.5 years working  as Senior Advisor in Internal Medicine and Clinical Heamatology at Command Hospital, Chandigarh. As the first clinical heamatologist to be posted to this hospital, have established a new Heamatology  center in which all hematological disease, benign and malignant are treated both  as OPD as well as in patient.


Papers & Publications
5 as First author

Clinical Profile of venomous snake bites in north Indian Military Hospital. Jasjit Singh, Sanjeev Bhoi, Vineet Gupta, Ashish Goel. Journal of emergencies Trauma and Shock /1:2/ Jul-Dec 2008.

Interpreting chest radiographs in the elderly- A clinician’s guide. Jasjit Singh, Sachin Maggo, Amba Prasad Dubey, Nilabh Kumar singh, Awanish Karan, Uthara K Sadananden. International Journal of Medical Science and Current Research/ Nov – Dec 2019/Vol 2/ Issue 6

Galactomannan enzyme Immunosassay: Diagnosis & Monitoring Invasive Aspergillosis in Patients of Acute Leukemia & Stem Cell Transplant. Jasjit Singh, Sachin Maggo, Jyoti Kotwal, Inderpal, Rajiv Kumar, Ajay Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Sanjeevan Sharma, S. Das. International Journal of Health Sciences and Research/ Vol. 10; Issue: 1: January 2020.

Clinlicopathological Risk Stratification of Multiple Myeloma- Prospective and Retrospective. Dr Jasjit Singh, Dr GS Chowdhary,  Dr Inderpal. International Journal of Healthcare and Biomedical Research, Vol:08,Issue:02 , January 2020, 14-24

Voxelotor – Novel Drug for Sickle Cell Disease. Jasjit Singh, Sachin Maggo, Uthara KS. International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology. (International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacaology, 2020 Mar;9(3): 513-517).

Jasjit Singh et al. A Systematic Study Of Hematological And Molecular Response To Generic Imatinib Mesylate Therapy In Patients Of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.  (Indian Journal of Basic and Applied Medical Research, June 2020)

Swati Srivastava,Babita Kumari, Iti Garg, Chavi Rai, Yamini Singh, Vinay Kumar, Uday Yanamandra, Jasjit Singh, Usha Panjawani, Anju Bansal, Bhuvnesh Kumar.Targeted Cells, expression study using Taqman low density array to gain insights into venous thrombo-embolism (VTE) pathogenesis at high altitude.

Swati Srivastava, Iti Garg, babita Kumari, Chavi Rai, Yamini Singh, Vijay Kumar, Uday Yanamandra, Jasjit Singh, Anju Bansal, Bhuvnesh Kumar.  Diagnostic potential of circulation micro RNA hsa-miR-320 in patients of high altitude induced Deep Vein Thrombosis: an Indian study. (ScienceDirect, Dec 2019, vol-17).

Kapoor, Rajan; Simalti, Ashish; Kumar Rajiv; Yanamandra, Uday; Das, Satyaranjan; Singh, Jasjit; Nair, Velu. PRES in Pediatric HSCT : A Single Center Experience, Journal  of Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology 40(6):433-437, Aug 2018.

Sanjeevan Sharma, MD MBBS, Uday Yanamandra, MDDS, Mir Moslem, MD MBBS, Rajan Kapoor, MD DM,  Suman Pramanik, MD, Rajiv Kumar, MBBS MD DM, Harshit Khurana, MD, MBBS, DM , Tarun Verma, MD, Singh Jasjit MD, Satyaranjan Das, MD, Ajay Sharma, MD, Velu Nair, MBBS, MD. Ph Positive ALL: Real World experience from a Tertiary Care Center in North India. (Blood(2018)132 (Suppl 1): 5901)
HS Darling, Rajiv Kumar ORCID, Rajan Kapoor, Jasjit Singh, Tarun Verma. BCR-ABL and JAK2V617F Mutation Co-existence, Rare or Just Unexplored. (Indian Journal of Heamatology and Blood Transfusion Vol 33, 633-635 (2017)

Vardhan R, Kotawal J, ganguli P, ahmad R, Sharma A &Singh JJ. Mixed Phenotypic Acute Leukemia Presenting as Mediastinal Mass-2 Cases. (Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus 2016 Jun: 32 (Suppl 1): 72-77. DOI 10.1007/s12288-015-0611-5)
Vardhan R, Kotawal J, Ganguli P, ahmad R, Sharma A &Singh JJ. Mixed Phenotypic Acute Leukemia of T/Myeloid type with rare multiple cytogenetic abnormality of chromosome 8, 9, 11, 12, 16 and marker chromosome and dual blast population : a rare case. Med Res Chron. 2015;2:394-8.

Vardhan R, Chauhan K, Kotwal J , Ganguli P, Sharma A and Singh JJ. Myeloid Leukemia associated with Down syndrome with complex karyotype- report of two cases- Experience at a tertiary care hospital. International Journal of Advances in Case Reports, 2015:2(10):627-632.

Ajay Sharma,MD; Velu Nair, MBBS,MD; Sataya Ranjan Das, MD; Sanjeevan Sharma MD,; Jasjit Singh, MD, HLA- Matched Sibling Stem Cell Transplantation in Children with Thalassemia Major with ATG as Part of Preperative Regimen: A Suitable choice even for High Risk Cases (Blood (2014) 124 (21):1157)

Ajay Sharma,MD; Velu Nair, MBBS,MD; Sataya Ranjan Das, MD; Sanjeevan Sharma MD,; Jasjit Singh, MD; Rajeev Kumar, MD; Jyoti Kotwal, MD; Jasmit Kaur, MD. Outcome in Allo SCT in patients with refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Non TBI Conditioning regimens. (Blood (2014) 124 (21):5947)
 

Nair V, Sharma A, Kotwal J, Bhikshapathy M, Mishra DK,  Das S, Sharma S, Kapoor R, Singh J, Nair V, Uday Y, Kotwal A. et al. Monitoring of response to therapy with Imatinib mesylate in chronic Myeloid Leukemia in chronic phase (CML-CP). MJAFI 2014:70: 315-320.
 

Vardhan Rig, Sachin TS, Kotwal J, Asthana Bhushan, Vardhan Shakti, Singh Jasjit. Acquired postpartum hemophilia: Clinico- pathological correlation through autopsy of a case and review of the literature. Journal  of Cases in Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2015 2(4) :69-74
 

Yadav A, Kotwal J, Singh J, Dutta V, Nair V. To study  the clinic- pathological features of patients with hemophagocytosis. (Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion Vol 27(4) 2011:261-262.)
 

Manoj M G, Kotwal J, Dutta V, Singh J, Nair V. Preliminary data on the Use of Multiplex reverse Transcriptase Polymerase chain reaction to determine 28 possible balanced translocations in Acute Leukemia and their co-relation  with morphology and flow cytometry. Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion 27(4) 2011: 194-195.
 

Kotwal J, Sinha K, Malik A, Singh J. Mani NS, Nair V. Acute Leukemia’s of ambiguous lineage: rare, dubious, difficult case series. (Indian Journal of Hematology and blood Transfusion 26(4) 2010:142).
 

Gupta A, Kotwal J, Singh J, Mani NS. A case of adult T Cell leukemia/ lymphoma (ATLL)- autopsy revelation and clinic pathological correlation. (Indian Journal of hematology and Blood Transfusion 26(4) 2010:137).
 

Ajay Sharma, Velu Nair, Satyaranjan Das, PG Kumar MishraMD, Jasjit Singh. Synoviorthesis (Radionuclide Synovectomy) with Yttrium-90 for Chronic Synovitis in Haemophilia: A Cost- Effective Therapy in Developing countries. Blood (2009)114(22):3497.
 
Awards and Honours:
1. Best Paper
2. General officer in Commanding (Western Command) GOC- in- C Commendation Medal for Commendable and Excellent Professional work.
3. Commendation certificate from Commdant Command Hospital (Southern Command)Pune, for have established a clinical Heamatology Centre at CH(SC) , Pune and AFMC  to have started  and done Bone Marrow Transplant program at AFMC/ CH(SC) , Pune.
4. Recommended to Vashisht Sewa medal for having participated in over 305 Bone Marrow Transplants.
 
Organizational Experience
1. Organising Secretary of National Heamatology meet at CH(SC) and AFMC, Pune in 2007.
2. Organising Secretary at National Heamatology meet at Army Hospital (Research and Referral) New Delhi in 2013.
 
Professional Membership
1. Life member of Association of Physician of India (API)
2. Life member of Indian society of Heamatology and Blood Transfusion (ISHBT).
3. Life member of Indian society of stem Cell Transplant (ISSCT)
 
Areas of Interest:
1. Treating all Hematological malignancies ( Blood Cancers), Lymphomas, Acute Leukemias, Chronic Leukemias, Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Hairy cell leukemias, Splenic lymphomas, Aplastic Anemias
2. Treating all benign ( non cancerous) Blood disorders : Anemias, ITP( low platelets), Myeloproliferative disorders,
3. Autologous & Allogenic Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant (BMT)
4. Multiple myeloma
5. Teaching as a part on going professional growth. This involves PG residents, UG Students, Interns, Nurses and paramedical staff.
6. Holistic care of the patient. This includes, besides pharmacological intervention to all aviate emotional, mental and symptomatic relief to the sick patient. To involve the patient as a part of the treating team, with him at the centre.
7. Interrelated basic administrative protocol with clinical algorithms to be able to deliver standard of care. To the clientele both in-patients as well as OPD.
8. Aplastic Anemia
9. Maintaining a detailed Data Base of all patients.
10. To be able to pioneer in setting up a Bone Marrow Transplant unit with cohesive integration with hematopathlogists, Blood Bank, Micrology, Infections diseases to enable SOC protocols for BMT unit.

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