VivekKumarMD

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Dr. Vivek Kumar is an internist in Boston, MA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He received his medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College and has been in practice 10 years. He also speaks Hindi. He specializes in hospital medicine/hospitalist and is experienced in python, stata, excel.

Mohan Lal Nayyar Gold medal for the best resident Maulana Azad Medical College, 2010-2011
National Torrent Young Scholar Award for the Best Internal Medicine Resident Torrent Pharmaceutical, 2010-2011

PubMed

1064 citations
Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1...
Christina Fitzmaurice, Degu Abate, Naghmeh Abbasi, Hedayat Abbastabar, Foad Abd-Allah
JAMA Oncology. 2019-09-27
306 citations
The global, regional, and national burden of stomach cancer in 195 countries, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2017
Arash Etemadi, Saeid Safiri, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Kevin S Ikuta, Catherine Bisignano
The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 2020-01-01
10 citations
Trends in the Risks of Secondary Cancers in Patients With Hodgkin Lymphoma.
Vivek Kumar, Mohit Garg, Abhinav B. Chandra, Valerie S. Mayorga, Salman Ahmed
Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia. 2018-09-01

Journal Articles

Suicide Rates in Cancer Patients in the Current Era in United States
V Kumar, N Chaudhary, P Soni, P Jha, American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal, 1/1/2017

Abstracts/Posters

Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics Associated with PatientÍs Decision to Refuse Multiple Myeloma (MM) Treatment, and Its Impact on Outcomes
Vivek Kumar, 61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting, Orlando, FL, 12/8/2019

Lectures

A Population-Based Analysis of Predictors of Survival and Trends in Outcomes of Elderly Patients with Multiple Myeloma (MM)
61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting - Orlando, FL - 12/7/2019