Shalini U Makawita, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor

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Positions

Assistant Professor: Medicine - Hematology & Oncology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, US

Addresses

McNair Campus (Office): 7200 Cambridge St. STE A07.289
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 957-6500
Fax: (713) 610-4596

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center (Clinic): O’Quinn Medical Tower at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center’s McNair Campus
1919 Old Spanish Trail
Houston, TX, 77054
United States
Phone: (832) 957-6500
Fax: (713) 610-4596
shalini.makawita@bcm.edu

Education

BSc from University of Toronto: 06/2008 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

MS from University of Toronto: 01/2011 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

MD from Wayne State School of Medicine: 06/2015 - Detroit, Michigan, United States

Residency at Baylor College of Medicine: 06/2018 - Houston, Texas, United States

Fellowship at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: 06/2021 - Houston, Texas, United States

Certifications

American Board of Internal Medicine

ABIM Medical Oncology

ABIM Hematology

Honors & Awards

ASCO Conquer Cancer William T. Leslie, MD, Endowed Merit Award: (06/2021)

Excellence in Ambulatory Care, Baylor College of Medicine: (06/2018)

Scholar-in-Training Award, American Association for Cancer Research: (04/2010)

ASCO/VAIL Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Virtual Workshop: (07/2020)

Professional Interests

Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology
Clinical Trials
Cancer Biomarkers

Selected Publications

Shalini Makawita, Mitesh J Borad, Fernando Carapeto, Lawrence Kwong, Tanios S Bekaii-Saab, Karthikeyan Murugesan, Jeffrey S Ross, Natalie Danziger, Mason A Israel, Kimberly McGregor, Filip Janku, Milind M Javle. " IDH1 and IDH2 Driven Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (IHCC): A comprehensive genomic and immune profiling study. " Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2021 ; 39 (15_suppl) : 4009-4009.
Shalini Makawita, Ghassan K Abou-Alfa, Sameek Roychowdhury, Saeed Sadeghi, Ivan Borbath, Lipika Goyal, Allen Cohn, Angela Lamarca, Do-Youn Oh, Teresa Macarulla, Rachna T Shroff, Michael Howland, Ai Li, Terry Cho, Amit Pande, Milind Javle. " Infigratinib in patients with advanced cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 gene fusions/translocations: the PROOF 301 trial " Future Oncology. 2020 ; 16 (30) : 2375-2384.
Pubmed PMID: 32580579.
Shalini Makawita, Funda Meric-Bernstam. " Antibody-drug conjugates: patient and treatment selection " American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2020 ; 40 : 105-114.
Pubmed PMID: 32213087.
Shalini Makawita, Eleftherios P Diamandis. " The bottleneck in the cancer biomarker pipeline and protein quantification through mass spectrometry–based approaches: current strategies for candidate verification " Clinical chemistry. ; 56 (2) : 212-222.
Pubmed PMID: 22515324.
Shalini Makawita, Chris Smith, Ihor Batruch, Yingye Zheng, Felix Rückert, Robert Grützmann, Christian Pilarsky, Steven Gallinger, Eleftherios P Diamandis. " Integrated proteomic profiling of cell line conditioned media and pancreatic juice for the identification of pancreatic cancer biomarkers " Molecular & cellular proteomics. 2011 ; 10 (10)
Pubmed PMID: 21653254.
Shalini Makawita, Apostolos Dimitromanolakis, Antoninus Soosaipillai, Ireena Soleas, Alison Chan, Steven Gallinger, Randy S Haun, Ivan M Blasutig, Eleftherios P Diamandis. " Validation of four candidate pancreatic cancer serological biomarkers that improve the performance of CA19. 9 " BMC cancer. 2013 ; 13 (1) : 1-11.
Pubmed PMID: 24007603.
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Memberships

American Society of Clinical Oncology

American Society of Hematology