Lakshmanan Krishnamurti named chief of pediatric hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplant at Yale

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Lakshmanan Krishnamurti was named chief of pediatric hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplant at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital and Leader of the Smilow Cancer Hospital Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Program. 

Krishnamurti is a pediatric hematologist oncologist and an expert in bone marrow transplant and the treatment of hemoglobinopathies.

Krishnamurti joins Yale from Emory University School of Medicine, where he is director of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Program and professor of pediatrics and holds the Joseph Kuechenmeister Aflac Field Force Chair at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. 

Krishnamurti begins his role Oct. 1.

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