Govind Bhagat, MD

Overview
Email: gb96@cumc.columbia.edu
Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated
- Acute Leukemia
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
- Acute Myelogenous Leukemia/AML
- Anatomic Pathology
- Bone Marrow Disorders
- Bone Marrow Failure Diseases
- Castleman Disease
- Celiac Disease
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
- Clinical Research
- Cutaneous Lymphoma
- Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma
- Essential Thrombocythemia
- Follicular Lymphoma
- Hematopathology
- Hematopoiesis
- HIV-Related Blood Disorders
- Hodgkins Lymphoma
- Immunocompromised Host Diseases
- Immunohistochemistry
- Laboratory Medicine
- Leukemia
- Lymphoma
- Mantle Cell Lymphoma
- Molecular Cancer Testing
- Multiple Myeloma
- Myelodysplastic Syndrome
- Myeloproliferative Disorder
- Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Pediatric Leukemia
- Polycythemia Vera
- Second Opinions
- Spleen Disease
- T-Cell Lymphoma
- Transplantation Pathology
- Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia
Academic Appointments
- Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at CUMC
Administrative Titles
- Director, Hematopathology Division
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Languages
- Hindi
Gender
- Male
Schedule an Appointment
Connect Patient Portal
For existing patients, login to make an appointment, view documentation or contact your care provider.
Insurance Accepted
Cigna
- EPO
- Great West (National)
- HMO
- POS
- PPO
Emblem/GHI
- Medicare Managed Care
- PPO
Emblem/HIP
- ConnectiCare
- EPO
- Essential Plan
- HMO
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
- Select Care (Exchange)
- Vytra
Local 1199
- Local 1199
MagnaCare (National)
- MagnaCare
Medicare
- Railroad
- Traditional Medicare
Multiplan
- Multiplan
RiverSpring
- Special Needs
UnitedHealthcare
- Columbia University Employee Plan
- Compass (Exchange)
- Empire Plan
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- Delhi University College of Medical Sciences
- Internship: Guru Tegh Bahadur Hopital - India
- Residency: Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
- Residency: Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Residency: 2000 NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical C
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- Fellowship: Armed Forces Institute
Committees, Societies, Councils
Societies/Memberships
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
Society for Hematopathology
American Society of Hematology
International Extranodal Lymphoma Study Group
International Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma Collaborative Group
American Association for Cancer Research
Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer
Society for Mucosal Immunology
North American Society for the Study of Celiac Disease, founding member
International Society for the Study of Celiac Disease
Department and University Committees:
2005-present: Faculty Council of the Faculty of Medicine
2016-present: Academy of Clinical Excellence - Inaugural/Steering and Communications Committees
Board Certifications
- Hematology
- Anatomic Pathology and Clinical Pathology
Research
Research Interests
- Immunopathogenesis of celiac disease
- Leukemias and myeloid disorders
- Pathogenesis and genetic characteristics of lymphomas
Selected Publications
1. Wang RC, Wei Y, An Z, Zou Z, Xiao G, Bhagat G, White M, Reichelt J, Levine B. Akt-Mediated Regulation of Autophagy and Tumorigenesis through Beclin 1 Phosphorylation. Science. 2012, 338(6109):956-959.
2. Margolskee E, Jobanputra V, Lewis SK, Alobeid B, Green PH, Bhagat G. Indolent Small Intestinal CD4+ T-cell Lymphoma Is a Distinct Entity with Unique Biologic and Clinical Features. PLoS One. 2013, 8(7):e68343.
3. DeGaetani M, Tennyson CA, Lebwohl B, Lewis SK, Abu Daya H, Arguelles-Grande C, Bhagat G, Green PH. Villous atrophy and negative celiac serology: a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. Am J Gastroenterol. 2013, 108(5):647-653.
4. Pasqualucci L, Khiabanian H, Fangazio M, Vasishtha M, Messina M, Holmes AB, Ouillette P, Trifonov V, Rossi D, Tabbò F, Ponzoni M, Chadburn A, Murty VV, Bhagat G, Gaidano G, Inghirami G, Malek SN, Rabadan R, Dalla-Favera R. Genetics of follicular lymphoma transformation. Cell Rep. 2014, 6(1):130-140.
5. Palomero T, Couronné L, Khiabanian H, Kim MY, Ambesi-Impiombato A, Perez-Garcia A, Carpenter Z, Abate F, Allegretta M, Haydu JE, Jiang X, Lossos IS, Nicolas C, Balbin M, Bastard C, Bhagat G, Piris MA, Campo E, Bernard OA, Rabadan R, Ferrando AA. Recurrent mutations in epigenetic regulators, RHOA and FYN kinase in peripheral T cell lymphomas. Nat Genet. 2014, 46(2):166-170.
6. Kode A, Manavalan JS, Mosialou I, Bhagat G, Rathinam CV, Luo N, Khiabanian H, Lee A, Murty VV, Friedman R, Brum A, Park D, Galili N, Mukherjee S, Teruya-Feldstein J, Raza A, Rabadan R, Berman E, Kousteni S. Leukaemogenesis induced by an activating β-catenin mutation in osteoblasts. Nature. 2014, 506(7487):240-244.
7. Miranda RN, Aladily TN, Prince HM, Kanagal-Shamanna R, de Jong D, Fayad LE, Amin MB, Haideri N, Bhagat G, Brooks GS, Shifrin DA, O'Malley DP, Cheah CY, Bacchi CE, Gualco G, Li S, Keech JA Jr, Hochberg EP, Carty MJ, Hanson SE, Mustafa E, Sanchez S, Manning JT Jr, Xu-Monette ZY, Miranda AR, Fox P, Bassett RL, Castillo JJ, Beltran BE, de Boer JP, Chakhachiro Z, Ye D, Clark D, Young KH, Medeiros LJ. Breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma: long-term follow-up of 60 patients. J Clin Oncol. 2014, 32(2):114-1120.
8. Arribas AJ, Rinaldi A, Mensah AA, Kwee I, Cascione L, Robles EF, Martinez-Climent JA, Oscier D, Arcaini L, Baldini L, Marasca R, Thieblemont C, Briere J, Forconi F, Zamò A, Bonifacio M, Mollejo M, Facchetti F, Dirnhofer S, Ponzoni M, Bhagat G, Piris MA, Gaidano G, Zucca E, Rossi D, Bertoni F. DNA methylation profiling identifies two splenic marginal zone lymphoma subgroups with different clinical and genetic features. Blood. 2015, 125(12):1922-1931.
9. Montanari F, Radeski D, Seshan V, Alobeid B, Bhagat G, O'Connor OA. Recursive partitioning analysis of prognostic factors in post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD): a 120 case single institution series. Br J Haematol. 2015, 171(4):491-500.
10. Margolskee E, Jobanputra V, Jain P, Chen J, Ganapathi K, Nahum O, Levy B, Morscio J, Murty V, Tousseyn T, Alobeid B, Mansukhani M, Bhagat G. Genetic landscape of T- and NK-cell post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders. Oncotarget. 2016, 7(25):37636-37648.
11. Ganapathi KA, Jobanputra V, Iwamoto F, Jain P, Chen J, Cascione L, Nahum O, Levy B, Xie Y, Khattar P, Hoehn D, Bertoni F, Murty VV, Pittaluga S, Jaffe ES, Alobeid B, Mansukhani MM, Bhagat G. The genetic landscape of dural marginal zone lymphomas. Oncotarget. 2016, 7(28):43052-43061.
12. Castellanos-Rubio A, Fernandez-Jimenez N, Kratchmarov R, Luo X, Bhagat G, Green PH, Schneider R, Kiledjian M, Bilbao JR, Ghosh S. A long noncoding RNA associated with susceptibility to celiac disease. Science. 2016, 352(6281):91-95.
13. De Silva NS, Anderson MM, Carette A, Silva K, Heise N, Bhagat G, Klein U. Transcription factors of the alternative NF-κB pathway are required for germinal center B-cell development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016, 113(32):9063-9068.
14. Xia Y, Xu-Monette ZY, Tzankov A, Li X, Manyam GC, Murty V, Bhagat G, Zhang S, Pasqualucci L, Visco C, Dybkaer K, Chiu A, Orazi A, Zu Y, Richards KL, Hsi ED, Choi WW, van Krieken JH, Huh J, Ponzoni M, Ferreri AJ, Møller MB, Parsons BM, Winter JN, Piris MA, Westin J, Fowler N, Miranda RN, Ok CY, Li Y, Li J, Medeiros LJ, Young KH. Loss of PRDM1/BLIMP-1 function contributes to poor prognosis of activated B-cell-like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Leukemia. 2017, 31(3):625-636.
15. Matnani R, Ganapathi KA, Lewis SK, Green PH, Alobeid B, Bhagat G. Indolent T- and NK-cell lymphoproliferative disorders of the gastrointestinal tract: a review and update.Hematol Oncol. 2017, 35(1):3-16.
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov