- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Society for Clinical Oncology
- Children’s Oncology Group
Puja Umaretiya, M.D.
- Pediatrics - Hematology-Oncology
Biography
Puja Umaretiya, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Umaretiya earned her medical degree at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, where she also received advanced training through a fellowship in pediatric hematology and oncology. She completed a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine, as well as a psychosocial oncology and palliative care research fellowship, at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
She also holds a master’s degree in epidemiology from Harvard.
Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in hospice and palliative medicine as well as pediatric hematology and oncology, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2023.
Dr. Umaretiya is a member of several professional associations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Education & Training
- Medical School - Mayo Medical School (2011-2015)
- 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
Professional Associations & Affiliations
Honors & Awards
- Research Institute Scholar 2022, National Institute of Health on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- Brigid Leventhal Special Merit Award 2022, American Society for Clinical Oncology Meeting
- Fellow Teaching Honor Roll 2021, Boston Combined Residency Program
- ASCO Merit Award 2021, American Society for Clinical Oncology Meeting 2021
- Fellow Teaching Honor Roll 2020, Boston Combined Residency Program
Books & Publications
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Publications
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Patient-parent perspectives in designing pediatric venous thromboembolism research: A qualitative study
Fuksman A, Shliakhtsitsava K, Nguyen G, Umaretiya PJ, Stutzman S, Sida D, Rajpurkar M, Khurram F, Edwards H, Zia A Thrombosis research 2026 Apr 260 -
Understanding Fellowship Leaders’ Efforts to Recruit Diverse Fellows to Pediatric Subspecialties
Streater BA, Chiel L, Umaretiya PJ, Schwartz A, Mink R, Greenzang KA, Kesselheim JC Academic Pediatrics 2026 Apr 26 -
Sociodemographics and Attrition in Children With Osteosarcoma Enrolled in the AOST0331 Clinical Trial
Zheng DJ, DelRocco N, Han R, Krailo M, Aziz-Bose R, Karvonen KA, Kelly CA, Newman H, Umaretiya PJ, Ilcisin L, Reed DR, Gorlick R, Janeway K, Bona K JAMA Network Open 2026 Mar 9 e263666 -
Collecting Social Determinants of Health in a Children’s Oncology Group Trial for High-Risk Neuroblastoma
Jones E, Naranjo A, Winestone LE, Umaretiya PJ, Aziz-Bose R, Kelly CA, Newman H, Zheng DJ, Greengard E, Bagatell R, DuBois SG, Bona K JAMA Network Open 2026 9 -
Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer
Wright S, Paul MA, Mendez SM, Jones E, Lokko L, Heneghan C, Purol N, Arnold M, Aziz-Bose R, Kelly CA, Pruitt S, Wolfe J, Bona K, Umaretiya PJ Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2026 -
Pediatric RISE: Development of a Poverty-Targeted Cash Support Intervention for Pediatric Cancer
Kelly CA, Paul MA, Kellett J, Kang S, Revette A, Aziz-Bose R, Duhaney L, Umaretiya PJ, Lin A, Hanson E, Bona K Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2026 Jan 73 -
Partnering With Caregivers in Bereavement Research: Why It Matters and Best Practices
Mccarthy SB, Snaman JM, Umaretiya PJ, Johnston EE Pediatrics 2025 Dec 156 -
Prospective Study of Annual Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging as Part of a Multimodality Screening Program for Individuals With Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
Maoz A, Chen N, Umaretiya P, Cahill SR, Schwartz-Levine A, Jagannathan J, Voss SD, Friedman DN, Walsh M, Robson ME, Nehoray B, Frone MN, Schneider KA, Schienda JM, Hamilton KV, Onufrychuk A, Diller LR, Kamihara J, Rana HQ, Garber JE, London WB, O'Neill AF JCO Precision Oncology 2025 Oct 9 -
Parental Financial Support Needs After the Death of a Child From Cancer
Snaman JM, Herold B, Umaretiya PJ, Johnston EE Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2025 Sep 72 -
Contemporary Characteristics and Outcomes of Pediatric Oncology Patients Participating in Early Phase Clinical Trials
Rami A, Bona K, Shusterman S, Wright K, Place AE, Umaretiya PJ, Bhushan K, DuBois SG, Campbell K Cancer Medicine 2025 Sep 14 -
Psychosocial Experiences of African American Parents of Children With Cancer
Eche-Ugwu IJ, Aronowitz T, Broden EG, Merz A, White-Hammond GE, Umaretiya PJ, Bullock K, Brock K, Johnston EE, Wolfe J, Feraco AM Pediatrics 2025 Jun 155 -
Enabling Inclusive Psychosocial Research Strategies Among African American Parents of Children With Cancer
Eche-Ugwu IJ, Aronowitz T, White-Hammond GE, Merz A, Umaretiya PJ, Bullock K, Johnson KS, Wolfe J, Feraco AM Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2025 May 69 e414-e416 -
Racial and Ethnic Survival Disparities Among Children With High-Risk Neuroblastoma: A Children's Oncology Group Report
Umaretiya PJ, Naranjo A, Zhang FF, Park JR, Weiss BD, Granger M, Desai AV, Ozkaynak MF, Yu AL, Aziz-Bose R, Pruitt SL, Dubois SG, Bagatell R, Bona K JAMA Network Open 2025 Feb 8 -
Development and refinement of the Cardiovascular Health Equity through Food (CHEF) intervention for childhood cancer survivors
Aziz-Bose R, Jones E, Revette A, Lokko L, Umaretiya PJ, Kelly CA, Duhaney L, Kenney LB, Zhang FF, Bona K Journal of Cancer Survivorship 2025 20 1311-1322 -
Disparities in Pediatric Palliative Care: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here?
Boyden JY, Umaretiya PJ, D'Souza L, Johnston EE Journal of Pediatrics 2024 Dec 275 -
Targeting hardship: poverty as a modifiable risk factor in childhood leukemia and lymphoma treatment
Umaretiya PJ, Aziz-Bose R, Kelly C, Bona K Hematology (United States) 2024 Dec 2024 20-26 -
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation gaps within a pediatric leukemia clinical trial cohort
Aziz-Bose R, Cernik C, Umaretiya PJ, Ilcisin L, Kelly CA, Valenzuela A, Bruce C, de Cuba SE, Cole PD, Gennarini LM, Kahn JM, Kelly KM, Michon B, Tran TH, Welch JJ, Silverman LB, Bona K Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2024 Nov 71 -
Poverty, race, ethnicity, and survival in pediatric nonmetastatic osteosarcoma: A Children's Oncology Group report
Ilcisin L, Han R, Krailo M, Shulman DS, Weil BR, Weldon CB, Umaretiya P, Aziz-Bose R, Greenzang KA, Gorlick R, Reed DR, Randall RL, Nadel H, Binitie O, Dubois SG, Janeway KA, Bona K Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2024 Oct 116 1664-1674 -
Healthcare utilization disparities among children with high-risk neuroblastoma treated on Children's Oncology Group clinical trials
Shoag J, Li Y, Getz KD, Huang YS, Hall M, Naranjo A, Richardson T, Desai AV, Umaretiya PJ, Aziz-Bose R, Kelly CA, Zheng DJ, Newman H, Zahler S, Aplenc R, Bagatell R, Bona K Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2024 Oct 71 -
Enrollment on upfront high-risk neuroblastoma trials by race, ethnicity, and poverty status: A report from the Children's Oncology Group
Umaretiya PJ, Naranjo A, Zhang FF, Irwin MS, DuBois SG, Bagatell R, Bona K Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2024 Jul 71 -
Providing Groceries and Transportation to Poverty-Exposed Pediatric Oncology Families: The PediCARE Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial
Newman H, Jones E, Li Y, Umaretiya PJ, Wolfson JA, Wolfe J, Bona K JAMA Network Open 2024 May 7 E2412890 -
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 JJ, Wolfe J, Silverman LB, Rosenberg AR, Bona K Hospital Pediatrics 2024 Feb 14 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 and Cancer 2024 Jan 71 -
Opportunities to Advance Equity Through Informed Consent Discussions
Umaretiya PJ, Johnston EE JAMA Network Open 2023 Dec 6 -
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 JJ, Wolfe J, Silverman LB, Bona K Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2023 Oct 115 1179-1187 -
“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 and Cancer 2023 Sep 70 -
Perioperative hypertension and anesthetic management in patients undergoing resection of neuroblastoma
Liu J, Zurakowski D, Weldon C, Umaretiya P, Holzman R, Lin YC Paediatric anaesthesia 2023 Jul 33 577-582 -
“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 and Cancer 2023 Jan 70 -
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 JJ, Silverman LB, Wolfe J, Bona K Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2022 Nov 69 -
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 e461-e463 -
A Structural Racism Framework to Guide Health Equity Interventions in Pediatric Oncology
Umaretiya PJ, Vinci RJ, Bona K Pediatrics 2022 May 149 -
Achieving Global Pediatric Palliative Care Equity - What We Have Yet to Learn
Umaretiya PJ, Wolfe J JAMA Network Open 2022 Mar 5 -
Large Anterior Mediastinal Mass and Cardiac Infiltration at Diagnosis in a Child with T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Meyer EJ, Umaretiya P, Vrooman LM Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2022 Mar 44 E418-E419 -
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 25 455-460 -
Disparities in pediatric psychosocial oncology utilization
Zheng DJ, Umaretiya PJ, Schwartz ER, Al-Sayegh H, Raphael JL, van Litsenburg RR, Ma C, Muriel AC, Bona K Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2021 Nov 68 -
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 3893-3900 -
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 and Cancer 2021 Oct 68 -
Learning to listen: A plea to our profession
Umaretiya PJ, Tsai JW Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2021 Aug 68 -
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 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 2018 May 34 331-336 -
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 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 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 37 207-215 -
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: Targets and Therapy 2016 Apr 8 59-71 -
A 5-year-old with connective tissue nevi: Buschke-ollendorff syndrome
Umaretiya PJ, Miest RY, Tollefson MM Journal of Pediatrics 2014 Jul 165 206 -
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 64-68
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Patient-parent perspectives in designing pediatric venous thromboembolism research: A qualitative study
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