Dr. Basant Eltaher joined Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in July 2026. She was born and raised in Egypt and completed her medical education at Ain Shams University Hospital in 2019. Following medical school, she completed a one-year internship at Ain Shams University Hospital. During that time, which coincided with the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, she developed a strong interest in inpatient hospital medicine and triaging acute cases in the emergency department. Dr. Eltaher subsequently joined as a resident at Ain Shams University Hospital where she was extensively involved in the care of inpatient leukemia patients. She had the opportunity to care for patients in the bone marrow transplant unit, where she managed complex hematologic conditions and transplantation-related complications. She later relocated to the United States, where she completed her Internal Medicine residency at Rochester General Hospital in New York in 2026. During her training there, she was actively engaged in multiple research projects, with a particular focus on thrombosis and anticoagulation, exploring both clinical outcomes and optimal management strategies in patients at risk for thromboembolic events.
Education
- BS, Medicine and Surgery: Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt (2019)
- Residency, Internal Medicine, Hematology and BMT: Ain Shams University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt (2023)
- Residency, Internal Medicine: Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY (2026)
Clinical Interests
High-acuity oncology care, hematology, thrombosis and anticoagulation
Publications and Posters
Mostafa, Mariama; Eltaher, Basant; Egiza, Hebat-Allah; Gouli, Sugam; Mahmoud, Amir; Kharel, Himal; Singh,Harkarandeep; Niu, Chengu. Use of stool DNA for colorectal cancer screening: a meta-analysis and systematic review. European Journal of Cancer Prevention 34(4): p 309-315, July 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000937
Chengu Niu, Jing Zhang, Idoate-Domench Daniel-Jose, Teibel Zachary, Orakzai Abdullah, Purva Shah, Eltaher Basant, Devam Maity, Firoze A Abdullah, Nagesh Jadhav, Patrick I Okolo, Daglilar Ebubekir, Anticoagulation outcomes in cirrhotic patients with portal vein thrombosis: a tertiary center study, Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2025; qgaf062, https://doi.org/10.1093/postmj/qgaf062
Aditya Sanjeevi, Aniket Vijay Rao, Daniel Idoate Jose Domench, Basant Eltaher, Samikchhya
Keshary Bhandari, Balancing the Blade: Opioid Access and Management Challenges in Sickle Cell Disease – a Study from the National Inpatient Sample Database (2015-2020), Blood, Volume 144, Supplement 1, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2024-212318.
Purva Shah, Devam Maity, Basant Eltaher, Aditya Sanjeevi, Astha Prasai, Aakriti Jain, Amir
Mahmoud; Trends in Venous Thromboembolism Events in Hospitalized Acute Lymphoblastic
Leukemia Patients – National Inpatient Database Study. Blood 2024; 144 (Supplement 1): 1264.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2024-211749
Basant Eltaher, Purva Shah, Amir Mahmoud, Harkarandeep Singh, Aditya Sanjeevi, Mariam
Mostafa, Ali Abdelhay; Central Nervous System Complications in Different Types of Sickle Cell
Disorders: A Nation-Wide Analysis. Blood 2024; 144 (Supplement 1): 5322.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2024-211725
Ali Abdelhay, Basant Eltaher, Mouna Reghis, Aditya Sanjeevi, Aniket Vijay Rao, Peter A. Kouides; Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Pregnancy, a Systematic Review of Case Reports and Case Series. Blood 2024; 144 (Supplement 1): 3912. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2024-200110
Aditya Sanjeevi, Daniel Idoate Jose Domench, Aniket Vijay Rao, Basant Eltaher, Muhammad Hammad Sharif; Barriers to Allogenic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in MDS: Exploring the Role of Age, Race and Insurance – an NIS Database Study from 2016-2020. Blood 2024; 144 (Supplement 1): 2296. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2024-212262
Amir Mahmoud, Basant Eltaher, Purva Shah, Mariam A Mostafa, Ali Abdelhay, Ana G. Antun, Camila Masias, Meera Sridharan, Shruti Chaturvedi; Fetal and Maternal Morbidity in Pregnant Patients with Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: A Nationwide Analysis. Blood 2024; 144 (Supplement 1): 2620. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2024-202671
Amir Mahmoud, Purva Shah, Basant Eltaher, Mariam A Mostafa, Ali Abdelhay, Mouhamed Yazan Abou-Ismail, Shruti Chaturvedi; Characterization of Bleeding in Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Treated without Caplacizumab. Blood 2024; 144 (Supplement 1): 2619. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2024-202649
Basant Eltaher, Amir Mahmoud, Purva Shah; Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Complicated with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia. Blood 2024; 144 (Supplement 1): 6789. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2024-212067
Basant Eltaher, Purva Shah, Himal Kharel, Amir Mahmoud, Ali Abdelhay; Morbidity and Mortality of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Hospitalized Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients. Blood 2024; 144 (Supplement 1): 5957. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2024-208993
Himal Kharel, Zeni Kharel, Samikchhya Keshary Bhandari, Nishan Babu Pokhrel, Purva Shah, Aditya Sanjeevi, Aniket Rao, Abdullah Ahmad Orakzai, Basant Eltaher, Tripti Jain, Saad Jamshed; When pain management meets harm reduction: Patients with cancer navigate the opioid crisis—2016 to 2020 National Inpatient Sample analysis. JCO 42, 12071-12071(2024) DOI:10.1200/JCO.2024.42.16_suppl.12071
Aditya Sanjeevi, Samikchhya Keshary Bhandari, Himal Kharel, Zeni Kharel, Abdullah Ahmad
Orakzai, Purva Shah, Basant Eltaher, Rashmi Verma, Aniket Rao, Chengu Niu, Daniel Idoate
Domench; Hospitalization outcomes of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) admitted with
Clostridioides difficile colitis.. JCO 42, e15649-e15649(2024). DOI:10.1200/JCO.2024.42.16_suppl.e15649
Purva Shah, Abdullah Ahmad Orakzai, Himal Kharel, Aditya Sanjeevi, Basant Eltaher, Jose M.
Easow; Factors influencing the mortality risk of heart failure in patients receiving antineoplastic immunotherapy: A national inpatient database study 2016-2020. JCO 42, e24011-e24011(2024). DOI:10.1200/JCO.2024.42.16_suppl.e24011
Himal Kharel, Samikchhya Keshary Bhandari, Zeni Kharel, Aditya Sanjeevi, Aniket Rao, Purva Shah, Abdullah Ahmad Orakzai, Basant Eltaher, Nishan Babu Pokhrel, Saad Jamshed; Is essential thrombocytosis associated with worse outcomes in patients with stroke? Results from 2016-2020 National Inpatient Sample study. JCO 42, e23060-e23060(2024)
DOI:10.1200/JCO.2024.42.16_suppl.e23060
Amir Mahmoud, Abdullah Orakzai, Tripti Jain, Himal Kharel, Arnav Srivastava, Niraj Neupane, Heba Yassin, Basant Eltaher, Ali Abdelhay; Risk and Outcomes of Hospitalizations in Patients with Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome Admitted with Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia: A Nation-Wide Analysis. Blood 2023; 142 (Supplement 1): 5516. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2023-191046
Amir Mahmoud, Himal Kharel, Arnav Srivastava, Tripti Jain, Abdullah Orakzai, Mariam A Mostafa, Niraj Neupane, Basant Eltaher, Heba Yassin, Ali Abdelhay; The ‘Weekend Effect’ on Immune Cytopenia: Insights from the National Inpatient Sample Database. Blood 2023; 142 (Supplement 1): 5219. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2023-190912
Arnav Srivastava, Tripti Jain, Amir Mahmoud, Himal Kharel, Abdullah Orakzai, Basant Eltaher,
Shobhit Piplani; Association of Autoimmune Diseases and Their Effect on Outcomes of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia: An Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample (2016-2020). Blood 2023; 142 (Supplement 1): 5549. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2023-189864
Mahmoud, A.A., Abdelhay, A., Khamis, A., Mostafa, M., Shehadah, A., Mohamed, M.S., Eltaher, B. et al. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in inflammatory bowel disease: a nationwide analysis. Ann Hematol 102, 1705–1711 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-023-05223-4
Mahmoud A A, Abdelhay A, Eltaher B, et al. (February 23, 2023) Isolated Tuberculosis of the Cervical Vertebrae. Cureus 15(2): e35383. doi:10.7759/cureus.35383
Mahmoud, A.A., Abdelhay, A. & Eltaher, B. Anaplasmosis and Lyme disease. J Hematopathol 16, 57–58 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12308-022-00525-4
Amir Mahmoud, Ali Abdelhay, Mariam Mostafa, Soon Khai Low, Basant Eltaher, Simrat Gill, Zuhair Alam, Robin M. Reid; Relapsed Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Presenting with a Cardiac Mass: A Case Report. Blood 2022; 140 (Supplement 1): 12388–12389. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2022-166350
Ali Abdelhay, Amir Mahmoud, Simrat Gill, Omar Al Ali, Mohamed Salah Mohamed, Anas Hashem, Ahmed Shehadah, Basant Eltaher, Suhib Fahmawi, Mariam Haji, Mariam Mostafa; Acute Venous and Arterial Thromboembolic Events in Patients with Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance: A Nation-Wide Analysis. Blood 2022; 140 (Supplement 1): 10110. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2022-170639
Mahmoud, A. A., Eltaher, B., & Hashem, A. (2022). Caplacizumab in the successful management of cardiac involvement in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 35(6), 832–833. https://doi.org/10.1080/08998280.2022.210110