WORK EXPERIENCE AND SKILL SET:

• Worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Clinical Hematology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi from October 2019 to November 2021
• Currently working as Consultant-Hematopathology  in the Department of Pathology, Aster MIMS, Calicut from November 2021 till present

INTERESTS:

• Coagulation disorders
• Hemolytic anemias
• Flowcytometry
• Bone marrow failure syndromes
• Myeloproliferative neoplasms
• Myelodysplastic syndromes
• Molecular hematology

PUBLICATIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS:

• HP Pati, Karthika Kundil Veetil. Myelodysplastic syndrome- Myeloproliferative neoplasm overlap syndromes: molecular pathogenetic mechanisms and their implications. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus. 2019. 35(1):3–11. 
• Karthika K.V., Tripathi P., Pati H. and Saxena R. A peripheral smear finding beyond cells: Cryoglobulins in a case of Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma. J. Med. Dent. Sci. 2019; 8(2): 1709-1714. 
• Tripathi P, Karthika KV, Pati HP, Tyagi S. Bernard Soulier syndrome; A rare bleeding disorder. Int J Med and Dent Sci 2018; 7(1):1642-1645. 
• Rohan Halder, Uday Kumar D. Sundaram, Karthika K. Veetil, Ashish Rath, Tulika Seth, Seema Tyagi & Hara P. Pati (2020): Concomitant Existence of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria in a patient with Hb E (HBB: c.79G>A) Trait, Hemoglobin, DOI: 10.1080/03630269.2020.1759621
• Chauhan R, Sazawal S, Singh K, Ragesh R Nair R, Chhikara S, Deka R, Chaubey R, Veetil KK, Dange P, Mahapatra M, Saxena R. Reversal of Glanzmann thrombasthenia platelet phenotype after imatinib treatment in a pediatric chronic myeloid leukemia patient. Platelets. 2018 Mar; 29(2):203-206 
• Veetil KK, Nileshwar RK. The validity of immunocytochemistry in differentiating between benign and malignant thyroid neoplasms preoperatively using FNAC. J. Evid. Based Med. Health. 2017; 4(33), 1932-36 
• Juneja R, Veetil KK, Gupta G, Dange P, Pati H. An interesting story of a clone. Blood Res. 2020; 55(2):115-117
• Karthika K.V. Megaloblastic Anemia and Dual Nutritional Deficiency Anemia. In: Saxena, R, Pati, H.P (eds.) Hematopathology- advances in understanding. : Springer Singapore; c2019. 
• Karthika K.V. Inherited bone marrow failure syndromes. In: Saxena, R, Pati, H.P (eds.) Hematopathology- advances in understanding. : Springer Singapore; c2019. 
• Reviewer of the Indian Journal of Hematology and blood transfusion
• Quiz master for the ISHBT Zonal quiz held in October 2019 and State ISHBT quiz held in August 2022.
• Presented a poster on Next Generation Sequencing for inherited thrombocytopenias at the American Society of Hematology (ASH), 2021.
• Presented a poster on Ruxolitinib in resource limited settings at the American Society of Hematology (ASH), 2022.
• Speaker at PURSUE online PG lecture series for Hematology