Dr. Amrat Kumar joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2024. He grew up in Diplo, Pakistan, and received medical education at Sindh Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan. He then spent a few years working as a medical officer near his hometown before moving to the USA for his internal medicine residency at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, NY. After graduation from his residency training in June 2020, Dr. Kumar joined Bassett Medical Center as an attending physician in the hospitalist division, where he had the opportunity to teach medical students and residents. He recently also had the opportunity to present grand rounds on “approach to acute thrombocytopenia in hospitalized patients.” Before his residency, he worked as a visiting scientist and research assistant in the Laboratory of Diabetes and Diabetes-Related Disorders at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research for close to a year and studied the effects of metformin, metabolic syndrome, obesity, and the obesity paradox.
Education
- Medical Degree: Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Sindh, Pakistan (2011)
- Residency, Internal Medicine: Bassett Medical Center Program, Columbia University, New York (2020)
Clinical/Research Interests
General internal medicine, inpatient care, hematology and oncology, cancer immunology, immune therapies in treatment of cancer
Publications and Abstracts
Obesity paradox, obesity orthodox, and the metabolic syndrome: An approach to unity. Roth J., Sahota N., Patel P., Mehdi S.F., Wiese M.M., Mahboob H.B., Bravo M., Eden D.J., Bashir M.A., Kumar A., Alsaati F., Kurland I.J., Brima W., Danoff A., Szulc A.L., Pavlov V.A., Tracey K.J., Yang H.. PMID: 27878212 DOI: 10.2119/molmed.2016.00211
Is metformin poised for a second career as an antimicrobial? Malik F, Mehdi S.F., Ali H., Patel P., Basharat A., Kumar A., Ashok F., Stein J., Brima W., Malhotra P., Roth J.. PMID: 29271563 DOI: 10.1002/dmrr.2975
Reuniting overnutrition and undernutrition, macronutrients, and micronutrients. Kim M., Basharat A., Santosh R., Mehdi S.F., Razvi Z., Yoo S.K., Lowell B., Kumar A., Brima W., Danoff A., Dankner R., Bergman M., Pavlov V.A., Yang H., Roth J.. PMID: 30171821 DOI: 10.1002/dmrr.3072
Systemic Air Embolism Following Computed Tomography-Guided Lung Biopsy. Abid H., Kumar A., Siddiqui N., Kramer B.. PMID: 31632862 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.5408
Metastatic Rectal Small Cell Carcinoma: A Case Report. Abid H., Kumar A., Patel A.. PMID: 32850214 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.9340
Rare Case of Episodic Angioedema with Hyper-Eosinophilia; Gleich Syndrome. Idrees, M., Kumar, A., Boddhula, S., Gnanajothy, R., Ehsanullah, U.. Clinical Lymphome Myeloma and Leukemia 19 (supp 1), S352
Secondary Hypertension due to Underlying Takayasu Arteritis. Raja A, Afridi, M.S., Wang W., Kumar R., Sumbul-Yuksei B., Kumar A. PMID: 36158424 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.28263
A Rare Case of Pulmonary Cavitary Disease Caused by Mycobacterium Xenopi. Dogra M., Thakur M., Thakur G., Kumar A.. PMID: 36879719 DOI:10.7759/cureus.34561
Tick Borne Rhabdomyolysis: A Rare Case of Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Kidney Injury Due to Anaplasmosis. Dogra M., Thakur M., Kumar A., Thakur G.. PMID:36919073 DOI:10.7759/cureus.34835
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: A case report on rare co-occurrence of both condition simultaneously. Kumar, A., Meena, F., Patel A.V.. Case Reports in Hematology (Pending publication)
A Case of JAK2V617F-negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasm in a Young Female Presenting With Extreme Thrombocytosis. Koubeissy, A., Pulenthiran, A., Kumar, A., Gulati, A., Wolf, B., Peeke, S., Kumar, K.. Cureus
Poster Presentations
Kumar, A., Meena, F., Patel A.V.. (2023, May 20). A case report on simultaneous co- occurrence of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Poster presented at Atlantic Regional Hematopathology Meeting at Fox Chase Cancer Center/Philadelphia, PA,
USA.
Mehdi, S.F., Sahota, N., Kumar, A., Patel, V., Malik, F.S., Alsaati, F., & Roth, J.. (2016, September 19). Obesity Is Linked with Better Survival with Major Infectious Diseases: Concordance of Results in The Clinic and The Laboratory. Poster presented at NYC Regional Obesity Forum 1st Annual Meeting/New York, NY, USA.
Mehdi, S.F., Sahota, N., Kumar, A., Patel, V., Malik, F.S., Alsaati, F., & Roth, J.. (2016, September 14). Obesity Is Linked with Better Survival with Major Infectious Diseases: Concordance of Results in The Clinic and The Laboratory. Poster presented at Hofstra Northwell School Of Medicine, Annual Research Symposium/Hempstead, NY, USA.
Mehdi, S.F., Westlake, M., Kumar, A., Sahota, N., Patel, V., Malik, F.S., Alsaati, F., Qiang, X., Ochani, M., Ochani, K., Czura, C., Tracey, K., Rabin, A., Bohm, M., Kannengiesser, K., Sears, C., Donowitz, M., Rabizadeh, S., Sebag, J.A., & Roth, J.. (2016, September 14). Novel Peptide Released by E. coli Activates Melanocortin Receptor MCR1 and Rescues Mice from Sepsis (and colitis). Poster presented at Hofstra Northwell School Of Medicine, Annual Research Symposium/Hempstead, NY, USA.