Robert Bash, MD

Associate Professor
Pediatrics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

robert.bash@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-730-KIDS (5437).

Education

FellowshipUT Southwestern / Children's Medical Center, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (1993)
ResidencyIndiana University Hospitals, Pediatrics (1989)
InternshipIndiana University Hospitals, Pediatrics (1987)
Medical SchoolIndiana University School of Medicine (1986)

Research Interests

Care of the dying child. Focus on early involvement of hospice, concurrent experimental and palliative chemotherapy in a hospice setting, and factors that determine the quality of life at the end of a child's life.
Management of the obese cancer patient with regard to pharmacology of antineoplastic drugs, dose adjustments, unique toxicities, and overall outcome
Supportive care of pediatric cancer patients
The adolescent with cancer: epidemiology, access to care, quality of life, and response to treatment

Publications

Featured
Effective removal of methotrexate by hemodialysis

Saland JM, Leavey PJ, Bash RO, Hansch E, Arbus GS and Quigley R , Pediatric Nephrology , 2002; (in press)

Featured
Fractionated cyclophosphamide and etoposide for children with advanced or refractory solid tumors: A phase II window study

Mantadakis E, Herra L, Leavey PJ, Bash RO, Winick NJ and Kamen BA , J Clin Oncol , 2000; (18/13):2576-81

Featured
Does activation of the TAL1 gene occur in a majority of patients with T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Bash RO, Hall S, Timmons CF, Crist WM, Amylon M, Smith RG and Baer R , Blood , 1995; (86):666-676

Featured
Safety and cost effectiveness of early discharge of relatively low risk children with cancer hospitalized for fever and neutropenia

Bash RO, Katz JA, Cash JV and Buchanan GR , Cancer , 1994; (74):189-196

Featured
Clinical features and outcome of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in childhood with respect to alterations at the TAL1 locus.

Bash RO, Crist WM, Link MP, Shuster JJ, Amylon M, Pullen J, Buchanan GR, Carroll AJ, Smith RG and Baer R , Blood , 1993; (81):2110-2117

Kinetics of early therapeutic response as measured by quantitative PCR predicts survival in a murine xenograft model of human T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Hosler GA, Bash R and Scheuermann RH , Leukemia , 2000; (14/7):1215-24

Glutathione S-transferase genotypes in children who develop treatment-related acute myeloid malignancies

Woo MH, Schuster JJ, Chen C, Bash RO, Behm FG, Camitta B, Felix CA, Kamen BA, Pui CH, Raimondi SC, Winick NJ, Amylon MD and Rellig MV , Leukemia , 2000; (12):232-7

Development and validatin of a quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay to evaluate minimal residual disease for T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and follicular lymphoma

Hosler GA, Bash R, Bai X, Jain V and Scheuermann RH , Am J Pathol , 1999; (154/4):1023-35

Changing strategies in the war against childhood cancer

Bash RO , Dallas Med J , 1999; (85/11):495-500

Mammalian cells as hosts for two-hybrid studies of protein-protein interaction

Tsan JT, Wang Z, Jin Y, Hwang L-Y, Bash RO and Baer R , Bartel, P.L. and Fields, S (eds) The Yeast Two-Hybrid System, Oxford University Press, New York, New York , 1997; :217-232

Honors/Awards

D Magazine

List of Best Pediatricians in Dallas (2002)

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

President's Research Council Distinguished Young Researcher Award (1996)

American Society of Clinical Oncology

Young Investigator Award (1994)

Indiana University School of Medicine

Lyman T. Meiks Award in Pediatrics (1986)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

American Society of Clinical Oncology

American Society of Hematology

Children's Oncology Group