Luke Akard, M.D., F.A.C.P. Medical Co-Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation Program Indiana Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Office Address

Indiana Blood and Marrow Transplantation
8111 South Emerson Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46237
Office Phone	317 865.5500
Office FAX	317 782.6316

Education

1973-77	Purdue University, B.S. West Lafayette, Indiana
1977-81	Indiana University School of Medicine, M.D. Indianapolis, Indiana
1981-84	Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Inc. Internal Medicine Resident
1984-87	Indiana University School of Medicine Hematology/Oncology Fellow

Academic Appointments

1987-90

Indiana University School of Medicine - Assistant Professor of Medicine

Medical Staff Appointments

1987-90	Indiana University Medical Center Staff Hematologist/Oncologist Attending Physician, Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit
1987-90	Consulting Hematologist/Oncologist Johnson Memorial Hospital, Franklin Indiana
1990-	Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Inc. - Medical Staff
1996-	Community Hospital of Indiana - Medical Staff
1997-	St. Vincent Hospital - Medical Staff
1999-	St. Francis Hospital and Healthcare Center - Medical Staff

Hospital Committees and Services

1988-90	Indiana University Hospital Cancer Committee
1988-90	Indiana University Hospital Transfusion Committee
1988-90	Indiana University School of Medicine Institutional Review Board
1990-99	Methodist Hospital of Indiana - Co-director Bone Marrow Transplant Program
1991-	Methodist Hospital of Indiana: Scientific Review Committee, Institutional Review Board
1991-	Methodist Hospital of Indiana - Oncology Policy Group
1999-	St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers - Institutional Review Board
1998-	St. Francis Hospital - Co-Director Stem Cell Transplant Program

Honors

1976	Phi Beta Kappa
1980	Alpha Omega Alpha
1987	Charles Kenner Memorial Award - Outstanding Fellow, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine

Certification

1984	Internal Medicine
1987	Medical Oncology
1988	Hematology

Professional Societies

American College of Physicians - Fellow Indiana State Medical Association American Federation for Clinical Research Hoosier Oncology Group -      1990-Executive Committee      1990-Hematology Committee Co-Chairman American Society of Clinical Oncology American Society of Blood Banks American Society of Hematology American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Publications

10 most recent publications out of a total of 87

Chang Q, Harvey K, Akard LP, Thompson J, Dugan M, English D, Jansen J. Counterflow centrifugal elutriation as a method of T cell depletion may cause loss of immature CD 34+ cells. Bone Marrow Transplantation 19:1145-1150, 1997.

English D, Martin M, Harvey K, Akard LP, Allen R, Widlanski TS, Garcia JG, Siddiqui RA. Characterization and purification of neutrophil ecto-phosphatidic acid phosphohydrolase. Biochemical Journal 324:941-950, 1997.

Harvey K, Higgins N, Akard LP, Chang Q, Jansen J, Thompson J, Dugan M, Rizzo MT, English D. Lineage commitment of HLA-DR/CD38-defined progenitor cell subpopulations in bone marrow and mobilized peripheral blood assessed by four-color immunofluorescence. Journal of Hematotherapy 6:243-252, 1997.34.

Siddiqui RA, Akard LP, Garcia JGN, Cui Y, English D. Chemotactic migration triggers IL-8 generation in neutrophilic leukocytes. Journal of Immunology 162:1077-1083, 1999.

Harvey KA, Siddiqui RA, Reeves M, Kovala T, Dugan M, Akard LP, English D. Characterization and partial purification of CD34+ progenitor cell ecto-phosphatidic acid phosphohydrolase. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology International 47:9-23, 1999.

Jansen J. Thompson EM. Hanks S. Greenspan AR. Thompson JM. Dugan MJ. Akard LP. Hematopoietic growth factor after autologous peripheral blood transplantation: comparison of G-CSF and GM-CSF. Bone Marrow Transplantation 23(12):1251-6, 1999.

Chang Q, Harvey K, Akard L, Thompson J, Hanks S, Dugan M, Jansen J. Comparison of the distribution of progenitor cells in G-CSF-mobilized peripheral blood and steady-state bone marrow after counterflow centrifugal elutriation. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 5:328-335, 1999.

Rizzo MT, Regazzi E, Garau D, Akard L, Dugan M, Boswell HS, Rizzoli V, Carlo-Stella C. Induction of apoptosis by arachidonic acid in chronic myeloid leukemia cells. Cancer Research 59:5047-5053, 1999.

Akard LP, Thompson JM, Dugan MJ, Wiemann M, Greenspan A, Hanks S, Swinney M, Nyhuis A, Jansen J. Matched-pair analysis of hematopoietic progenitor cell mobilization using G-CSF vs. cyclophosphamide, etoposide, and G-CSF: enhanced CD 34+ cell collections ar not necessarily cost-effective. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 5 379-385, 1999.

Fife BL, Huster GA, Cornetta KG, Kennedy VN, Akard LP, and Broun ER. Longitudinal study of adaptation to the stress of bone marrow transplantation. Journal of Clinical Oncology 18:1539-1549, 2000.