Puja Umaretiya, M.D.

Pediatrics - Hematology-Oncology

Education & Training

Other Post Graduate Training - Harvard School of Public Health (2020-2022)
Fellowship - Boston Children's Hospital/ Boston Medical Center (2019-2022), Pediatric Hematology/oncology
Fellowship - Massachusetts General Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (2018-2019), Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Residency - Boston Medical Center/Boston Children's Hospital (2015-2018), Pediatrics
Medical School - Mayo Medical School (2011-2015)

Books & Publications

Publications
- Inequitable Poverty Exposures: A Subspecialty Opportunity to Address Disparities.
  Karvonen KA, Umaretiya PJ, Koch VB, Flamand Y, Aziz-Bose R, Ilcisin L, Valenzuela A, Cole PD, Gennarini LM, Kahn JM, Kelly KM, Tran TH, Michon B, Welch JJG, Wolfe J, Silverman LB, Rosenberg AR, Bona K, Hospital pediatrics 2024 Feb 14 2 e104-e106
- A comprehensive analysis of neuroblastoma incidence, survival, and racial and ethnic disparities from 2001 to 2019.
  Campbell K, Siegel DA, Umaretiya PJ, Dai S, Heczey A, Lupo PJ, Schraw JM, Thompson TD, Scheurer ME, Foster JH, Pediatric blood & cancer 2024 Jan 71 1 e30732
- Opportunities to Advance Equity Through Informed Consent Discussions.
  Umaretiya PJ, Johnston EE, JAMA network open 2023 Dec 6 12 e2346814
- Disparities in parental distress in a multicenter clinical trial for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
  Umaretiya PJ, Koch VB, Flamand Y, Aziz-Bose R, Ilcisin L, Valenzuela A, Cole PD, Gennarini LM, Kahn JM, Kelly KM, Tran TH, Michon B, Welch JJG, Wolfe J, Silverman LB, Bona K, Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2023 Jun
- "It's a lot of things": Household material hardship among Black and Hispanic parents of children with cancer.
  Valenzuela A, Hawkins A, Revette A, Chen L, Xiong N, Mazzola E, Eche IJ, Karvonen K, Snaman JM, Wolfe J, Bona K, Umaretiya PJ, Pediatric blood & cancer 2023 Jun e30485
- "The simple life experiences that every other human gets": Desire for normalcy among adolescents and young adults with advanced cancer.
  Umaretiya PJ, Fisher L, Altschuler A, Kushi LH, Chao CR, Vega B, Rodrigues G, Josephs I, Brock KE, Buchanan S, Casperson M, Fasciano KM, Kolevska T, Lakin JR, Lefebvre A, Schwartz CM, Shalman DM, Wall CB, Wiener L, Bona K, Mack JW, Pediatric blood & cancer 2023 Jan 70 1 e30035
- Feasibility of oncology clinical trial-embedded evaluation of social determinants of health.
  Aziz-Bose R, Zheng DJ, Umaretiya PJ, Ilcisin L, Stevenson K, Koch V, Valenzuela A, Cole PD, Gennarini LM, Kahn JM, Kelly KM, Tran TH, Michon B, Welch JJG, Silverman LB, Wolfe J, Bona K, Pediatric blood & cancer 2022 Nov 69 11 e29933
- Naming the Problem: A Structural Racism Framework to Examine Disparities in Palliative Care.
  Umaretiya PJ, Wolfe J, Bona K, Journal of pain and symptom management 2022 May 63 5 e461-e463
- A Structural Racism Framework to Guide Health Equity Interventions in Pediatric Oncology.
  Umaretiya PJ, Vinci RJ, Bona K, Pediatrics 2022 May 149 5
- Achieving Global Pediatric Palliative Care Equity-What We Have Yet to Learn.
  Umaretiya PJ, Wolfe J, JAMA network open 2022 Mar 5 3 e221253
- Missing Voices: Lessons Learned from Nonparticipating Caregivers in Palliative Care Research.
  Umaretiya PJ, Ilowite M, Fisher L, Bakitas M, Currie ER, Gilbertson-White S, Lindley L, Roeland EJ, Mack JW, Bona K, Journal of palliative medicine 2022 Mar 25 3 455-460
- Disparities in pediatric psychosocial oncology utilization.
  Zheng DJ, Umaretiya PJ, Schwartz ER, Al-Sayegh H, Raphael JL, van Litsenburg RRL, Ma C, Muriel AC, Bona K, Pediatric blood & cancer 2021 Nov 68 11 e29342
- PediCARE: Development of a poverty-targeted intervention for pediatric cancer.
  Umaretiya PJ, Revette A, Seo A, Flamand Y, Ilcisin L, Zheng DJ, Bhatia S, Wolfe J, Bona K, Pediatric blood & cancer 2021 Oct 68 10 e29195
- Race, ethnicity, and goal-concordance of end-of-life palliative care in pediatric oncology.
  Umaretiya PJ, Li A, McGovern A, Ma C, Wolfe J, Bona K, Cancer 2021 Oct 127 20 3893-3900
- Learning to listen: A plea to our profession.
  Umaretiya PJ, Tsai JW, Pediatric blood & cancer 2021 Aug 68 8 e29150
- Are we undermining the value of palliative care through advanced cancer clinical trial consent language?
  Umaretiya PJ, Rubin JP, Snaman JM, Ullrich C, Feraco AM, Dussel V, Wolfe J, Waldman E, Cancer 2021 Jun 127 12 1954-1956
- Vitamin D and the Breastfeeding Infant: Family Medicine Clinicians' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices.
  Oberhelman SS, Cozine EW, Umaretiya PJ, Maxson JA, Thacher TD, Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association 2018 May 34 2 331-336
- Maternal Preferences for Vitamin D Supplementation in Breastfed Infants.
  Umaretiya PJ, Oberhelman SS, Cozine EW, Maxson JA, Quigg SM, Thacher TD, Annals of family medicine 2017 Jan 15 1 68-70
- Influence of HLA-DR polymorphism and allergic sensitization on humoral immune responses to intact pneumococcus in a transgenic mouse model.
  Sheen YH, Rajagopalan G, Snapper CM, Kita H, Wi CI, Umaretiya PJ, Juhn YJ, HLA 2016 Jul 88 1-2 25-34
- Asthma and risk of breakthrough varicella infection in children.
  Umaretiya PJ, Swanson JB, Kwon HJ, Grose C, Lohse CM, Juhn YJ, Allergy and asthma proceedings 2016 May 37 3 207-15
- Modulation of breast cancer cell viability by a cannabinoid receptor 2 agonist, JWH-015, is calcium dependent.
  Hanlon KE, Lozano-Ondoua AN, Umaretiya PJ, Symons-Liguori AM, Chandramouli A, Moy JK, Kwass WK, Mantyh PW, Nelson MA, Vanderah TW, Breast cancer (Dove Medical Press) 2016 8 59-71
- A 5-year-old with connective tissue nevi: Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome.
  Umaretiya PJ, Miest RY, Tollefson MM, The Journal of pediatrics 2014 Jul 165 1 206
- Bone mineral density in Nigerian children after discontinuation of calcium supplementation.
  Umaretiya PJ, Thacher TD, Fischer PR, Cha SS, Pettifor JM, Bone 2013 Jul 55 1 64-8