Dr. Satya Prakash Yadav
Experience: Over 30 years
Medanta – The Medicity
Gurugram, India
Introduction
Dr. Satya Prakash Yadav is the Senior Director of Paediatric Hemato-Oncology & BMT at Medanta’s Cancer Institute. He has been treating children with blood cancers and marrow disorders for thirty years. Parents bring their children here when leukemia shows up on blood work, the immune system was broken from birth, or previous cancer treatment failed, and a transplant is the last real option left.
About Dr. Satya Prakash Yadav
Dr. Satya Prakash Yadav performed over a thousand pediatric bone marrow transplants. He builds transplant programs and also sets up a pediatric BMT program at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. Built another one at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, then established the program at Medanta.
Three separate pediatric transplant units were created across three major hospitals by him.
The fellows he trained over the past decade, more than thirty of them, are now running their own units as consultants across India and globally. He is also the Elected President of the Paediatric Haematology Oncology Chapter of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics for 2025-2027.
Qualifications
- MBBS — UCMS, University of Delhi.
- DCH — Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi.
- DNB (Paediatrics) — Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi.
- Fellowship in Paediatric Hemato-Oncology — Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney.
Awards & Recognition
- Over 1,000 pediatric BMTs performed.
- Built BMT programs at Sir Ganga Ram, Fortis FMRI, and Medanta.
- President PHO Chapter, Indian Academy of Paediatrics (2025-2027).
- Trained over 30 fellows now practicing globally.
- Dr. C.K. Bhalla Award for Best Senior Resident.
- Hemophilia Academy Fellow, Edinburgh, UK.
- Member of ASH, ASCO, and SIOP.
Specialities & Expertise
- Pediatric bone marrow transplant
- Matched unrelated donor and cord blood transplant
- Haploidentical transplant
- Childhood leukemia treatment
- Thalassemia and sickle cell curative transplant
- CAR-T cell therapy
- Primary immunodeficiency treatment
Patient Experience & Approach
Telling a parent their child has cancer is the hardest job in the world. Families mention that Dr. Satya Prakash Yadav doesn’t hide behind confusing medical terms during these devastating conversations. Parents going through the long, agonizing weeks of isolation during a bone marrow transplant appreciate that he stays intensely involved, tracking every single change in the child’s blood counts until they are safe.