Annapurna Saksena, MD, MBBS
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
My education and training
- Medical School: Pandit Bhagwat Dayal
- Residency: Pandit Bhagwat Dayal
- Residency: Maulana Azad Medical College University of Delhi
- Residency: University Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
- Residency: National Cancer Institute
- Fellowship: National Cancer Institute
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Pathology, 2021
- Pathology - Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 2020
- College of American Pathologists (CAP), International
- Society of Hematopathology, International
- The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Annapurna Saksena, Christin Siewert, Rust Turakulov, Omkar Singh, Zied Abdullaev, Ting Zhou, Jeremiah Karrs, Joao Victor Alves De Castro, Deanna Riley, Shannon Skarshaug, Valerie Zgonc, Lana Sultanaeva, Ruifeng Teng, Liqiang Xi, Robert J. Kreitman, Andreas von Deimling, Martí Duran-Ferrer, José Ignacio Martín-Subero, Elias Campo, Benjamin Englert, Julia Richter, Wolfram Klapper, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Andreas Rosenwald, Marion Wobser, Falko Fend, Leticia Quintanilla-Martinez, Gerardo Ferrer, Manel Esteller, Miguel A. Piris, Michael Hummel, Stefania Pittaluga, Mark Raffeld, Elaine S. Jaffe, David Capper, Kenneth Aldape DNA methylation-based classification of hematolymphoid neoplasms , Blood Advances: 2026
Julia Wang, Annapurna Saksena DNA methylation-based profiling in B-cell lymphomas , Advances in Molecular Pathology , 8(1): 2025,p41-52
Julia Wang, Annapurna Saksena Distinctive morphologic finding of multifocal perifollicular concentric granulomas in a lymph node with IgG4 plasmacytosis , Blood, 145(9): 2025,993
Li Xingchen, Devi P, Saksena A A Rare Case of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Co-occurring with Small Lymphocytic Leukemia: De Novo Process or Richter's Syndrome? , American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 162(Supplement_1): 2024,S77-S78
Olabisi Afolayan-Oloye MD, MPH; Vania, Aikawa, MD; Siddarth Bhattacharyya, MD; Annapurna Saksena, MD Mixed phenotypic acute leukemia , 22nd Meeting of the European Association for Hematopathology at Dubrovnik, Croatia: 2024
Devi P, Saksena, A, Bhattacharyya S, Pozdnyakova O EBV-associated T-cell Lymphoproliferative Disorder in a Young Adult , 22nd Meeting of the European Association for Hematopathology at Dubrovnik, Croatia : 2024
Ferré EMN, Nichols-Vinueza DX, Rosen LB, Burbelo PD, Fennelly KP, Pechacek J, Goldstein DM, Agharahimi A, Saksena A, Kleiner DE, Demirdag YY, Rajan A, Schrump DS, Holland SM, Freeman AF, Lionakis MS Lymphocyte-Directed Immunomodulation Remits Thymoma-Associated Autoimmune Pneumonitis. , J Clin Immunol, 44(7): 2024,156
Jeremiah Karrs, Prabhjot Kaur, Eric Loo1, Mark Raffeld, Annapurna Saksena, Elaine Jaffe Primary cutaneous gamma delta T-cell lymphoma, EBV positive. , SH/EASH Workshop 2023 at MD Andrson cancer center.: 2023
Annapurna Saksena, Andreia N Barbieri, Ina Lee, Stefania Pittaluga, Elaine Jaffe, Mark Raffeld Pleural and diaphragmatic involvement by gamma delta T- lymphoblastic lymphoma/leukemia , Case presentation at SH/EASH Workshop 2023 at MD Andrson cancer center.: 2023
Saksena A, Rajgariah A. A novel case of peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified, with rhabdoid morphology and INI1 loss , Blood, 142(7): 2023,675