MBBS - Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Rotating Internship - Al Hussein Hospital, Al Salt, Jordan
Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine - Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Transitional Specialized Residency in Pediatrics - King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan
Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation - Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology – American Board of PediatricsPediatrics – American Board of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematologist
Riten Kumar, Nihal Bakeer, Jennifer Dawson, Alyaa Al-Mughairy, Joseph Stanek, Amy Dunn, Christoph Male, Anthony Chan, Suzan Williams. Impact of SERPINC1 mutation on thrombotic phenotype in children with congenital antithrombin deficiency—first analysis of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis pediatric antithrombin deficiency database and biorepository. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis,2023
Lundin B, Bakeer N, Ranil F, Dunn AL, Gibikote S, Keshava SN, Ljung R, Papakonstantinou O, Pergantou H, Strike K, von Drygalski A, Zhang N, Babyn P, Dover S, Doria A. International Prophylaxis Study Group (IPSG) Haemophilia Joint MRI Scale Version 2.0. Haemophilia, 2023 (in review)
Julie Jaffray, Maua Mosha, Brian Branchford, Neil A Goldenberg, Michael Silvey, Stacy E Croteau, John H Fargo, James D Cooper, Nihal Bakeer, Amy Stillings, Emily Krava, Guy Young, Ernest K Amankwah. Evaluation of venous thromboembolism risk factors reveals subtype heterogenicity in children with central venous catheters: a multicenter study from the Children’s Hospital Acquired Thrombosis Consortium. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2023
Feldman SJ, Beslow LA, Felling RJ, Malone LA, Waak M, Fraser S, Bakeer N, Lee JEM, Sherman V, Howard MM, Cavanaugh BA, Westmacott R, Jordan LC. Consensus-Based Evaluation of Outcome Measures in Pediatric Stroke Care: A Toolkit. Pediatric Neurology, 2023
Christina M Abrams, Julie Jaffray, Amy Stillings, Brian R Branchford, Guy Young, Neil A Goldenberg, Yasmina L Abajas, John Fargo, Shelly Crary, Riten Kumar, Gary Woods, Shalu Narang, James Cooper, Mike Silvey, Kate Garland, Arash Mahajerin, Lori Luchtman‐Jones, Marcela Torres, Jordan Wright, Kristy Pahl, Katherine Armstrong, Chi Braunreiter, Nihal Bakeer, Anthony Sochet, Marie Hogan, Shveta Gupta, Christine Knoll, Kerry Hege, Beverly Schaefer, Arun Panigrahi, Courtney Thornburg, Kristin Shimano, Sanjay Ahuja, Angela Weyand, Alexander Boucher, Yasmina Abajas, Anjali Subbaswamy, Osman Khan, Colleen Druzgal, Deanna Maida, Allison Wheeler, Lynn Malec, Brian Branchford, Nicole Elena Kucine, Stephanie Prozora, CHAT Consortium Investigators. Current practices in pediatric hospital‐acquired thromboembolism: Survey of the Children's Hospital Acquired Thrombosis (CHAT) Consortium. Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2022
St-Louis J, Abad A, Funk S, Tilak M, Classey S, Zourikian N, McLaughlin P, Lobet S, Hernandez G, Akins S, Wells AJ, Manco-Johnson M, John J, Austin S, Chowdhary P, Hermans C, Nugent D, Bakeer N, Mangles S, Hilliard P, Blanchette VS, Feldman BM. The Hemophilia Joint Health Score version 2.1 Validation in Adult Patients Study: A multicenter international study. Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2022
Jaffray J, Baumann Kreuziger L, Branchford B, Wee CP, Faustino EVS, Zakai NA, Croteau SE, Silvey M, Fargo JH, Cooper JD, Bakeer N, Stillings A, Krava E, Young G, Goldenberg NA. Symptomatic Pulmonary Embolus After Catheter Removal in Children with Catheter Related Thrombosis: A report from the CHAT Consortium. J Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2022
Jaffray J, Mahajerin A, Branchford B, Nguyen ATH, Faustino EVS, Silvey M, Croteau SE, Fargo JH, Cooper JD, Bakeer N, Zakai NA, Stillings A, Krava E, Amankwah EK, Young G, Goldenberg NA.A New Risk Assessment Model for Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism in Critically Ill Children: A Report From the Children's Hospital-Acquired Thrombosis Consortium. Pediatric Critical Medicine, 2022
Beslow LA, Agner SC, Santoro JD, Ram D, Wilson JL, Harrar D, Appavu B, Fraser SM, Rossor T, Torres MD, Kossorotoff M, Zuñiga Zambrano YC, Hernández-Chávez M, Hassanein SMA, Zafeiriou D, Dowling MM, Kopyta I, Stence NV, Bernard TJ, Dlamini N; International Pediatric Stroke Study Group- NBakeer IHTC PI. International Prevalence and Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 in Childhood Arterial Ischemic Stroke During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Stroke. 2021
Bakeer N, Dover S, Babyn P, Feldman BM, von Drygalski A, Doria AS, Ignas DM, Abad A, Bailey C, Beggs I, Chang EY, Dunn A, Funk S, Gibikote S, Goddard N, Hilliard P, Keshava SN, Kruse-Jarres R, Li Y, Lobet S, Manco-Johnson M, Martinoli C, O'Donnell JS, Papakonstantinou O, Pergantou H, Poonnoose P, Querol F, Srivastava A, Steiner B, Strike K, Timmer M, Tyrrell PN, Vidarsson L, Blanchette VS. Musculoskeletal ultrasound in hemophilia: Results and recommendations from a global survey and consensus meeting.
Lauren A Beslow, Alexandra B Linds, Christine K Fox, Manoëlle Kossorotoff, Yenny C Zuñiga Zambrano, Marta Hernández‐Chávez, Sahar MA Hassanein, Susan Byrne, Ming Lim, Nkechi Maduaka, Dimitrios Zafeiriou, Michael M Dowling, Ryan J Felling, Mubeen F Rafay, Laura L Lehman, Michael J Noetzel, Timothy J Bernard, Nomazulu Dlamini, International Pediatric Stroke Study Group- IHTC PI. Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2021Pediatric ischemic stroke: an infrequent complication of SARS‐CoV‐2. Annals of neurology, 2021
Lewandowska M, Randall N, Bakeer N, Maahs J, Sagar J, Greist A, Shapiro AD. Management of people with haemophilia A undergoing surgery while receiving emicizumab prophylaxis: Real-world experience from a large comprehensive treatment centre in the US. Haemophilia, 2021
Jaffray J, Branchford B, Goldenberg N, Malvar J, Croteau SE, Silvey M, Fargo JH, Cooper JD, Bakeer N, Sposto R, Ji L, Zakai NA, Faustino EVS, Stillings A, Krava E, Young G, Mahajerin. Development of a Risk Model for Pediatric Hospital-Acquired Thrombosis: A Report from the Children's Hospital-Acquired Thrombosis Consortium. The Journal of Pediatrics, 2021.
Jennifer G. Davila, MD, Fernando F. Corrales-Medina, MD, Dunlei Cheng, PhD, Leslie J. Raffini, MD, Courtney D Thornburg, MD, Crystal Watson, BS. *NBakeer, IHTC Study Primary Investigator.ATHN15: Characterizing the Real-World Use of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Pediatric Patients - Interim Analysis. Blood, 2020.
Julie Jaffray, Lisa Baumann Kreuziger, Brian Branchford, Arash Mahajerin, Choo Phei A Wee, E Vince S Faustino, Zakai A Neil, Stacy E Croteau, Michael Silvey, John Fargo, James D Cooper, Nihal Bakeer, Amy Stillings, Emily Krava, Guy Young, Neil A Goldenberg. Incidence of pulmonary embolus after catheter removal in children with central venous catheter related venous thromboembolism: a report from the CHAT Consortium. Blood, 2020.
Julie Jaffray, Arash Mahajerin, Brian R Branchford, Anh Thy Nguyen, Ernest Amankwah, Michael Silvey, Stacy E Croteau, James D Cooper, John H Fargo, Nihal Bakeer, Amy Stillings, Emily Krava, E Vince S Faustino, Neil A Zakai, Guy Young, Neil A Goldenberg Assessing Venous Thromboembolism Risk in Critically Ill Children: A Report from the Children's Hospital-Acquired Thrombosis (CHAT) Consortium. Blood, 2019.
Arash Mahajerin, Julie Jaffray, Amy Stillings, Emily Krava, Jemily Malvar, Lingyun Ji, Richard Sposto, John H Fargo, James D Cooper, Stacy E Croteau, Michael Silvey, Nihal Bakeer, Ali Jalali, Hannah Lonsdale, Luis Ahumada, Neil A Zakai, E Vince S Faustino, Neil A Goldenberg, Guy Young, Brian R Branchford The Children's Hospital-Acquired Thrombosis (CHAT) Consortium Admission Risk- Assessment Models from Traditional Biostatistics and Machine Learning. Blood, 2019.
Nihal Bakeer, Amy Shapiro. Merging into the Mainstream: The Evolution of the Role of Point-of-Care Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Hemophilia. F1000Research, 2019.
Sarah A Hall, Emily Riehm Meier, Sweta Gupta, Charles Nakar, Angeli Rampersad, Nihal Bakeer, Brandon Hardesty, Manjusha Kumar Clinical Features of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Coexisting Hypermobility Syndromes and von Willebrand disease. Pediatric Blood and Cancer, 2018.
Madhvi Rajpurkar, MD, Maura Malone, Jim Munn, RN, BSN, MS, Julie Jaffray, MD, Crystal Watson, Dunlei Cheng, PhD, Maria Teresa De Sancho, MD.*Nbakeer, IHTC Study Primary Investigator. Transition of Care for Pediatric and Adult Patients with Venous Thromboembolism in the American Thrombosis Hemostasis Network. Blood, 2018.
Author(s): Brian R Branchford, Julie Jaffray, Stacy E Croteau, Michael Silvey, Nihal Bakeer, James D Cooper, John H Fargo, Lingyun Ji, Richard Sposto, Jemily Malvar, Emily Krava, Amy Stillings, Neil A Goldenberg, Guy Young, Arash Mahajerin. Risk Factors for Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism in Children: Findings from the Children's Hospital-Acquired Thrombosis (CHAT) Registry. Blood, 2018.
Georgios E Christakopoulos, Satheesh Chonat, Inigo Valiente-Alandi, Diamantis G Konstantinidis, Amanda Schleper, Nihal Bakeer, Anastacia Loberg, Burns C Blaxall, Yi Zheng, Jeanne James, Punam Malik, Theodosia A Kalfa. Reactive Oxygen Species Produced by NADPH Oxidase Contribute to Cardiac Pathology in a Mouse Model of Sickle Cell Disease. Blood, 2016.
Nihal Bakeer, Jeanne James, Swarnava Roy, Janaka Wansapura, Shiva Kumar Shanmukhappa, John N. Lorenz, Hanna Osinska, Kurt Backer, Anne-Cecile Huby, Archana Shrestha, Omar Niss, Robert Fleck, Charles Quinn, Michael Taylor, Enkhsaikhan Purevjav, Bruce Aronow, Jeffrey Towbin, Punam Malik. Sickle Cell Anemia Mice Develop a Unique Cardiomyopathy with Restrictive Physiology. Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Journal, 2016.
Niss O, Quinn CT, Lane A, Daily J, Khoury PR, Bakeer N, Kimball TR, Towbin JA, Malik P, Taylor MD. Cardiomyopathy With Restrictive Physiology in Sickle Cell Disease. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging, 2016.
Chandrakasan S, Bakeer N, Mo JQ, Cost C, Quinn CT. Iron-refractory Microcytic Anemia as the Presenting Feature of Unicentric Castleman Disease in Children. Journal of Pediatrics, 2014.
2020-2022, Indianapolis Monthly Top Doctor, Pediatric Hematology
2020-2023, Indianapolis Monthly Exceptional Women in Medicine
2020, Outstanding Teacher Award, Awarded by St. Vincent Hospital Pediatric Residency Program
2015, Gold Humanism Honor Society, Faculty Inductee, Indiana chapter
2014, Arnold W. Strauss Fellow Award, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
2012, Blackfan Research Award, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
2010, Chief Residents’ Acts of Kindness Award, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
2009, Resident of the Year Award, King Hussein Cancer Center
2006, Dean’s List, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan
2023-present, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
2019-present, International Pediatric Stroke Organization (IPSO)
- Stroke Readiness Working Group and Steering Committee
2019-present, Children’s Hospital-Acquired Thrombosis Consortium (CHAT)
2018-present, International Prophylaxis Study Group (IPSG)
- 2018-present, Imaging Subcommittee Member
2018-present, International Pediatric Stroke Study Group (IPSS)
2017-present, American Thrombosis and Hemostasis Network (ATHN)
2017-present, VENUS: Pediatric Thrombosis Research Collaborative Group
2017-present, Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society (HTRS)
2017-present, International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH)
2016-present, Clinical Quality Improvement Collaborative (CQIC)
- 2016-present, Centricity Physician office EMR Champion
2012-present, American Society of Hematology (ASH)
2012-present, American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (ASPHO)
2009-present, American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Hematology Oncology
- 2019-present, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Policy Review Work Group-Transfusion Medicine
2006-present, Jordan Medical Association (JMA)