Profile Summary
Dr. Urvashi is a Blood Transfusion Officer – Associate Consultant in Transfusion Medicine department at SPS Hospital since Nov,2023, bringing a strong background in Pathology and laboratory services. She completed her MD in Pathology from Geetanjali Medical College and Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, in 2020, and her MBBS from Laxmi Narayan Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, in 2016. She has been instrumental in the accreditations pertaining to the NABH Hospital, NABL, NABH Blood Centre, and Blood Centre license processes along with Quality Improvement Programs.
Area of Expertise
- Blood Centre and Transfusion Medicine services, including donor screening, blood collection, component preparation, compatibility testing, and transfusion support.
- Organization and management of voluntary blood donation camps and community awareness programs to promote safe blood donation practices.
- Apheresis procedures, immunohematology testing, TTI testing, and management of blood inventory and critical blood shortages.
- Implementation of quality assurance measures and compliance with national and international transfusion medicine standards.
- Patient Blood Management (PBM) strategies aimed at optimizing transfusion practices and enhancing patient safety.
- Hematology, including peripheral smear evaluation, bone marrow examination, and interpretation of hematological disorders.
- Clinical Pathology, encompassing routine laboratory diagnostics and laboratory quality management.
- Cytopathology, including Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC), body fluid cytology, urine cytology, and Pap smear reporting.
- Histopathology, with expertise in reporting endoscopic biopsies, excision biopsies, and complex surgical specimens from both benign and malignant conditions.
- Medical education and training of healthcare professionals, laboratory personnel, and students in pathology and transfusion medicine.
Experience:
Consultant Pathologist Capitol Hospital, Jalandhar | September 2022 – October 2023
Certification
- IS/ISO 15189:2022 Medical Laboratories – Requirements for Quality and Competence and Internal Audit Course
Conferences and Course Attended
- CME on “Understanding Blood component therapy from Basics to Bedside” organised by Department of Transfusion Medicine, GMCH Chandigarh and International society of Blood Transfusion, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Feb 2026)
- CME on “Bridging specialities: Building a pathway for clinical application of Apheresis (April 2026)
- 77th Annual Conference of India Medical Association of Punjab (Feb 2025)
- CME on Entrustable Professional activities (EPA) organised by CMC Ludhiana (April 2025)
- Training on ID-NAT Panther system organised by hemogenomics (Oct 2024)
- CME on “The Myeloma chronicles in diagnostics” organised by CMC Ludhiana (Nov 2024)
- An Update on Breast Malignancy (Jan 2020) – 3rd National and 1st West Zonal Conference of the Association of Cytologists and Histopathologists at the Department of Pathology, Government Medical College, Kota, Rajasthan
- International CME in Pathology, Histopathology and Cytopathology (Feb 2019) organised by the Indian Academy of Cytologists (Goa) and International Academy of Cytology
- PATHCON & LAB EXPO (Dec 2018) organised by Association of Practising Pathologists
- HA-BX: Hematology Analyzer Based Excellence (July 2018) organized by Horiba Medical, GMCH, Udaipur, Rajasthan
- CME on Update in Cytopathology with Special Emphasis on Liquid-Based Cytology (Oct 2017) organized by Department of Pathology, AIIMS Jodhpur
Presentations
- Paper: “Histopathological Study of Thyroid Lesions – A Retrospective Review of 110 Cases” presented at International CME in Pathology, Histopathology and Cytopathology (Feb 2019) organised by the Indian Academy of Cytologists (Goa) and International Academy of Cytology
- Poster: “Mucinous Tumors of Appendix and Ovary Presenting as Pseudomyxoma Peritonei”, organised by Association of Practising Pathologists (Dec 2018)
- Paper: “Histomorphological Study of Prostate Lesions” organised by Association of Practising Pathologists(Dec 2018)
- workshop “Immunohistochemistry” presented at PATHCON & LAB EXPO (Dec 2018) organised by Association of Practising Pathologists-Delegate
DISSERTATION & PUBLICATIONS
Dissertation: Histopathological evaluation of prostatic biopsy with its clinical correlation, under the guidance of Dr. M.L. GUPTA (Professor and Head of Department of Pathology, GMCH, Udaipur, Rajasthan)
Publication:
Gupta A, Urvashi, Gupta M.L, Mogra N,Mathur M. Significance of neutrophil lymphocyte ratio and platelet lymphocyte ratio in lung cancer. Trop J Path Micro 2019;5(11):872-877.doi:10.17511/jopm.2019.i11.07
Recognition and Awards
Honoured with the Rising Star Award during SPS Hospital’s 19th Anniversary Celebration for exemplary performance and commitment to patient care.