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Sandhya Khurana, M.D.

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Phone Numbers

Appointment: (585) 486-0147

Office: (585) 275-4861

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Faculty Appointments

Patient Care Settings

Cancer, Hospital Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary

Biography

Interests: Difficult and Severe Asthma

Professional Background

Dr. Sandhya Khurana is an adult pulmonary and critical care physician with a specialized focus in management of severe and difficult asthma. She completed her training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in 2003 where her research focus was 'airway remodeling in asthma'. She joined the faculty at University of Rochester in 2008 and helped develop a multidisciplinary state-of-the-art severe asthma program. She is the Director of the Mary Parkes Center for Asthma, Allergy & Pulmonary Care.


Dr. Khurana's clinical and research interests include comprehensive multidisciplinary management of severe asthma. She believes in a patient-centered team-based approach to management of this complex condition. She has expertise in application of novel therapies for severe asthma including new monoclonal antibodies. She is the site principal investigator in multicenter clinical trials evaluating new treatments in asthma. She is a co-investigator in the SOAR (Study Of Asthma in Rochester) asthma registry focused on characterization of asthma using non-invasive biomarkers.


Dr. Khurana has chaired asthma-focused sessions and participated as faculty at national and international meetings. Dr. Khurana was invited to participate in the 2015 WHO strategic meeting for management of chronic respiratory diseases in Geneva, Switzerland. She is the past Chair of Airway Disorders NetWork of the American College of Chest Physicians. She has also served on the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society's joint task-force on severe asthma. Dr. Khurana has co-authored several peer-reviewed papers on severe asthma and is the editor of a textbook on 'difficult asthma'.

Credentials

Specialties

    Education

    Post-doctoral Training & Residency

    07/01/2000 - 06/30/2003
    Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital & Medical College

    07/01/1997 - 06/30/2000
    Residency in Internal Medicine at State University of NY Health Science Center/Brooklyn

    07/16/1996 - 06/30/1997
    Internship in Internal Medicine at State University of NY Health Science Center/Brooklyn

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    Publications

    Journal Articles

    12/6/2022
    Donohue P, Love NC, Connolly M, Khurana S, Georas SN. "The effects of a deep breathing maneuver on standard airwave oscillometry measurements." Respiratory medicine and research.. 2022 Dec 6; 83:100985. Epub 2022 Dec 06.

    12/2022
    Sandhya Khurana. "Use of fractional exhaled nitric oxide to guide the treatment of asthma and chronic cough." Journal of Precision Respiratory Medicine. 2022; 5(1): 1-4.

    2/7/2022
    Mustafa SS, Patrawala S, Khurana S. "Use of biologics for the treatment of moderate-to-severe asthma: the age of personalized medicine." Current opinion in pulmonary medicine.. 2022 Feb 7; Epub 2022 Feb 07.

    Books & Chapters

    2020
    Chapter Title: High-Risk Asthma Clinic: Putting It All Together
    Book Title: Difficult to treat asthma:clinical essentials
    Author List: Navitha Ramesh & Sandhya Khurana
    Published By: Springer Nature 2020

    2020
    Book Title: Difficult to Treat Asthma: Clinical Essentials
    Author List: Editors Sandhya Khurana and Fernando Holguin
    Published By: Springer Nature 2020

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