Asad Bashey, M.D., Ph. D., is board certified in the subspecialties of medical oncology and hematology. He was an Associate Professor in the Divisions of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Hematology/Oncology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) prior to joining the Blood & Marrow Transplant Group of Georgia. He attended medical school at the University of Dundee in Scotland, where he graduated with Commendation. He subsequently completed residency training at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and trained in bone marrow transplantation and leukemia therapy at the Hammersmith Hospital (Royal Postgraduate Medical School, now Imperial College School of Medicine) in London, UK. He was awarded a Ph. D. by the University of London for his research related to leukemia. He then completed further specialty training at UCSD Cancer Center in La Jolla, California before being recruited to faculty in 1996. He continued to work at the UCSD Cancer Center through December 2005 where he was the Clinical Director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program and the Clinical Services Chief for the BMT Division. He has extensive experience in bone marrow transplantation as well as the treatment of leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and MDS.

His clinical and research interests include novel approaches to allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, strategies for augmentation of the graft-versus-tumor effect after allogeneic transplantation, and stem cell mobilization. He has received major funding from the National Institutes of Health for his clinical research and has been appointed to the BMT Core Committee of Cancer and Leukemia Group B. He has authored and co-authored more than thirty-five research articles in peer-reviewed journals and is the primary author of several books including “Non-Myeloblative Allogeneic Transplantation” (2002) and “100 Questions and Answers on Myeloma” (2005).

Dr. Bashey is a member if the American Society of Hematology, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation.