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
- Perioperative Fluid Management.| | PubMed
- The 2024 American Association for Thoracic Surgery expert consensus document: Current standards in donor lung procurement and preservation.| | PubMed
- Characterizing Risk Factors Associated With Recurrent Pleural Effusions in the Lung Transplant Recipients.| | PubMed
- Evaluation of Crushed Posaconazole Delayed Release Tablets in Lung Transplant Recipients.| | PubMed
- ISHLT consensus statement on the perioperative use of ECLS in lung transplantation: Part II: Intraoperative considerations.| | PubMed
- CD94+ natural killer cells potentiate pulmonary ischaemia-reperfusion injury.| | PubMed
- Improvements in Patient-Reported Functioning after Lung Transplant is Associated with Improved Quality of Life and Survival.| | PubMed
- Disturbed sleep after lung transplantation is associated with worse patient-reported outcomes and chronic lung allograft dysfunction.| | PubMed
- MICB Genomic Variant Is Associated with NKG2D-mediated Acute Lung Injury and Death.| | PubMed
- CCR5 drives NK cell-associated airway damage in pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion injury.| | PubMed