Dr. Muhammad Kafeel, MD

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• Immune derangements in patients with myelofibrosis: the role of Treg, Th17, and sIL2Rα.

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Get to know Hematologist-Oncologist Dr. Muhammad Kafeel, who serves patients in Flushing, New York.

A board-certified hematologist-oncologist, Dr. Kafeel has two decades of experience in providing individualized, compassionate cancer care to patients in New York. He tends to patients at Vantage Medical Group in Flushing, and can also be found on staff at Mount Sinai Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Back in the early days of his academic career, he earned his medical degree from the Santiago University of Technology School of Medicine in the Dominican Republic in 1998. After relocating to the United States, he completed his residency in internal medicine at the Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in 2008, and his fellowship in hospice & palliative medicine at the SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital in 2011. Later, he returned to the Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center and completed an additional fellowship in hematology & medical oncology in 2014.

In pursuit of clinical excellence, the doctor is board-certified in hematology, medical oncology, and internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). The ABIM is a physician-led, non-profit, independent evaluation organization driven by doctors who want to achieve higher standards for better care in a rapidly changing world.

With extensive research experience, Dr. Kafeel has published medical investigations of topics integral to the patient treatment and recovery experience

Hematology is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. A hematologist-oncologist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of cancer, malignant blood diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma, and blood disorders such as iron-deficiency anemia, clotting abnormalities, hemophilia, and sickle-cell disease.

As a testament to his success, Dr. Kafeel has been distinguished as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor and recognized in the Guide to America's Top Physicians.

A renowned linguist, he has volunteered his multilingual medical expertise to humanitarian missions such as the Disaster Relief fund. He is fluent in English, Urdu, Hindi and Spanish, and his practice offers medical interpretations for additional languages.

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