- Acute leukemia
- Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
- Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)
- Essential thrombocytopenia (ET)
- Leukemia
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
- Myelofibrosis
- Polycythemia vera
Selina M. Luger, MD
About me
- Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: McGill University
- Residency: Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
- Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
Reviews
Insurance accepted
- 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)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- 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
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Hematology, 1994
- American Society of Clinical Oncology, National
- American Society of Hematology, National
- AML Hub, International
- Children's Oncology Group (COG) DSMC-A, National
- ECOG-ACRIN cancer research group (ECOG-ACRIN), National
- Geneva Translational Oncology Program (GTOP), International
- National Cancer Institute (NCI), National
- Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada, National
- Society of Hematologic Oncology (SOHO), National
- Stichting Hemato-Oncologie voor Volswassenen Nederland (HOVON), International
- University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, National
- University of Connecticut Naeg Cancer Center, National
- Penn Bone Marrow Transplant and Stem Cell Transplant Program
- Penn Cellular Therapy and Transplant Program
- Penn Hematological Malignancies (Blood Cancer) Program
- Penn Leukemia Program
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2018 through 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Montesinos P, Altman JK, Bullinger L, Cheong JW, Fathi AT, Levis MJ, Luger S, Miyamoto T, Oliva EN, Perl AE, Récher C, Veiga RR, Wang J, Zeidan AM, Liu L, Duong Y, Rohrbach JEC, Inghirami G, Alexis K, Gosberg A, Nahar A, Burns K, Daver N, Erba HP. QuANTUM-Wild: a Phase III, randomized trial of quizartinib in newly diagnosed FLT3-ITD-negative acute myeloid leukemia. Future Oncol. 2026 Jul;22(16):1913-1924. doi: 10.1080/14796694.2026.2689464. Epub 2026 Jul 11. PMID: 42434847; PMCID: PMC13390524. QuANTUM-Wild: a Phase III, randomized trial of quizartinib in newly diagnosed FLT3-ITD-negative acute myeloid leukemia , Future Oncology, 22: 2026
Luger SM, Ciccarelli BT. A CHIP off the old (MDS) block , Haematologica, 110: 2025,1898-1899
Kalra LP, Zylyftari S, Blums K, Barthelmes S, Baum H, Meckel S, Heilgeist A, Luger S, Foerch C. Rapid Diagnosis of Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Patients With Acute Stroke by Measuring Prehospital GFAP Levels on a Point-of-Care Device (DETECT) , Neurology, 105: 2025,e213823
Natalie Wuliji, Salene M. W. Jones, Ted Gooley, Aaron T. Gerds, Bruno C. Medeiros, Paul J. Shami, John Galvin, Kehinde Adekola, Selina Luger, Maria R. Baer, David Rizzieri, Tanya M. Wildes, Eunice S. Wang, Mikkael A. Sekeres, Sudipto Mukherjee, Julie Smith, Mitchell Garrison, Kiarash Kojouri, Jacob Appelbaum, Mary-Elizabeth Percival, Brenda M. Sandmaier, Stephanie Lee, Frederick R. Appelbaum, Rayne Rouce, Mohamed L. Sorror; Social determinants of health and access to allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia , Blood: 2025
Iacobucci I, Zeng AGX, Gao Q, Garcia-Prat L, Baviskar P, Shah S, Murison A, Voisin V, Chan-Seng-Yue M, Cheng C, Qu C, Bailey C, Lear M, Witkowski MT, Zhou X, Zaldivar Peraza A, Gangwani K, Advani AS, Luger SM, Litzow MR, Rowe JM, Paietta EM, Stock W, Dick JE, Mullighan CG Multipotent lineage potential in B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is associated with distinct cellular origins and clinical features. , Nat Cancer: 2025
Wolfson JA, Grimes AC, Nuño MM, Ramakrishnan S, Dickens DS, Roth ME, Woods W, Adams KS, Alabi T, Beauchemin M, Levine JM, Scialla M, Boayue KB, Kerber CL, Ponce O, Vargas S, Chang GJ, Stock W, Hershman D, Curran E, Advani A, O'Dwyer K, Luger S, Liu JJ, Freyer DR, Sung L, Parsons SK. Guideline-concordant treatment among adolescents and young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia , JNCI Cancer Spectr, 9: 2025,pkaf033
Talha Badar, Selina M. Luger, Mark R. Litzow Incorporation of immunotherapy into frontline treatment for adults with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia , Blood: 2025
Pagel JM, Othus M, Garcia-Manero G, Fang M, Radich JP, Rizzieri DA, Marcucci G, Strickland SA, Litzow MR, Savoie ML, Spellman SR, Confer DL, Chell JW, Brown M, Medeiros BC, Sekeres MA, Lin TL, Uy GL, Powell BL, Bayer RL, Larson RA, Stone RM, Claxton D, Essell J, Luger SM, Mohan SR, Moseley A, Erba HP, Appelbaum FR. Erratum: Rapid Donor Identification Improves Survival in High-Risk First-Remission Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia , JCO Oncol Pract: 2025
Chow RD, Velu P, Deihimi S, Belman JP, Youn A, Shah N, Luger SM, Carroll MP, Morrissette JJ, Bowman RL. Persistent post-remission clonal hematopoiesis shapes the relapse trajectories of acute myeloid leukemia , Blood Adv: 2025
Wang X, Gimotty PA, Matthews AH, Mamtani R, Luger SM, Hexner EO, Babushok DV, McCurdy SR, Frey NV, Bruno XJ, Gill S, Martin ME, Paralkar VR, Maillard I, Porter DL, Loren AW, Perl AE, Pratz KW, Getz KD, Lai C. Evolving racial/ethnic disparities in AML survival in the novel therapy era , Blood Adv, 9: 2025,533-544