Ashutosh Lal MD

Dr. Ashutosh Lal is a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He is the director of the UCSF Comprehensive Thalassemia Center and principal investigator of the Thalassemia Western Consortium, providing care to the largest population of individuals with thalassemia in the U.S. He is the director of the Hemoglobinopathy Reference Laboratory, which serves as the confirmatory testing facility for newborn hemoglobinopathy screening programs in California and other states. Dr. Lal is an editor of the Thalassemia International Federation guidelines for the management of alpha thalassemia. He served on the federal advisory committee on heritable disorders in newborns and children. His primary clinical focus is the management of thalassemia among all age groups, improving access to care for transfusion-dependent patients, and the management of iron overload. His research interests are the epidemiology, diagnosis, and natural history of thalassemia, complications of blood transfusion, iron chelation, globin gene therapy, clinical trials of disease-modifying agents, and global thalassemia care.