Biography
Kukreja is the associate director of UCSF's lung transplant research division of cardiothoracic surgery.
Kukreja earned a medical degree at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She completed residencies in general surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and in cardiothoracic surgery at UCSF. She completed fellowships in general surgery and thoracic surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and also completed extensive training in designing clinical trials, studies that evaluate potential treatments' safety and efficacy. She has a master's degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Kukreja has received many professional honors, including the Pharmacia/Upjohn Trauma Research Competition Award, John A. Mannick Research Award and an excellence in teaching award from Harvard Medical School.
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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University of California | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training | 2018 | |
University of California Los Angeles | M.D. | School of Medicine | 1994 |
University of California, San Francisco | Postdoctoral Studies | Graduate Division |
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Clinical Expertise
Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma (BAC)
Carcinoid Tumors
Chest Wall Tumors
Esophageal Cancer
Esophagectomy
Lung Metastases
Lung Transplantation
Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
Malignant Mesothelioma
Mediastinal Masses
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Sarcomas
Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Tracheal Tumors
Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS)
Clinical Trials
- 10°C Vs 4°C Lung Preservation RCT (NCT05898776)Related Conditions: Lung Transplant, Transplants, Organ Preservation| Start Date: | End Date:
Program Affiliations
Thoracic Oncology Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Lung Transplantation, UCSF Heart and Lung Transplantation Program
San Francisco Veterans Administration Hospital
Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
In the News
Research Interests
- Novel therapies for lung cancer
- Clinical trials for new surgical modalities
Publications
- Airway Epithelial Telomere Dysfunction Drives Remodeling Similar to Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction.| | PubMed
- An Analysis of Successful Features of Anesthesiology Journal Clubs.| | PubMed
- Primary graft dysfunction attenuates improvements in health-related quality of life after lung transplantation, but not disability or depression.| | PubMed
- Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Recipients Have Suppressed Airway Interferon Responses during Pseudomonas Infection.| | PubMed
- Clinical outcomes and serologic response in solid organ transplant recipients with COVID-19: A case series from the United States.| | PubMed
- Lung transplant programs in developing countries: challenges, solutions, and outcomes.| | PubMed
- Redefining marginality: donor lung criteria.| | PubMed
- Skeletal muscle adiposity and outcomes in candidates for lung transplantation: a lung transplant body composition cohort study.| | PubMed
- Risk Factors and Outcomes of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Lung Transplantation.| | PubMed
- Frailty after lung transplantation is associated with impaired health-related quality of life and mortality.| | PubMed