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Amir Mehdi Ansari, MD
Specialty
Department
Internal Medicine
Locations
1300 E. Marshall Street
Richmond,
VA
23219
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Education
Medical School
Trabriz University of Medical Sciences
Internship
MedStar Health Internal Medicine Residency Program in Baltimore
Residency
MedStar Health Internal Medicine
Biography
Sometimes the best-intended treatments used to fight cancer cause their own serious health problems. That’s when Dr. Amir Ansari steps in to help.
As a board-certified internist, Ansari treats kidney, liver and cardiac complications associated with bone marrow and stem cell transplants and issues stemming from graft-versus-host disease, where the donor’s immune cells target healthy tissues in the recipient’s body.
He also treats complications arising from cellular immunotherapies, which use a patient’s own immune cells to fight certain forms of blood cancers.
Cellular immunotherapies like chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies can be a life-saving treatment for some patients fighting advanced blood cancers. But in some cases, the therapy leads to serious side effects, such as a “cytokine storm” inflammatory response, heart conditions and neurotoxicity (damage to the brain or peripheral nervous system). Monitoring and successfully fighting the side effects takes not only clinical skill and training, but clear and effective communication, patience, and attention to detail.
Ansari was drawn to be part of the team at VCU Massey Cancer Center’s Cellular Immunotherapies and Transplant Program because it offers a diverse and collaborative environment providing cutting-edge care for patients with blood and bone marrow disorders.
“Cancer treatment is a rapidly evolving field,” says Ansari, an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. “That’s why it’s so crucial for providers to know the latest treatments, and also how to respond to any complications that can arise from them.”
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