Lana Afiat, MD

Dr. Lana Afiat received her MD from Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. She completed an Internal Medicine Residency at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Dr. Afia’s clinical interests are in optimal and wholesome inpatient management of comorbidities and complications of disease process and treatment in patients with hematologic and oncologic malignancies. Dr. Afia’s research interests are inpatient complications in patients with malignancies and personalized approaches to the medical management in these patients to meet the complex physical and psychosocial needs of cancer patients, their families and caregivers. She is also interested in investigating how the pathological processes of certain diagnoses may differ in patients undergoing cancer treatment due to side effects to help guide clinical practices and establish a standard of care for oncological hospitalists.

Education & Training

Residency:

• University of South Florida -

Medical School:

• Morehouse School of Medicine - MD

• Afiat TN, Jalali S, McCain C, Jayson A, Thakkar H, Eaton K, Hembree TN, Verma N. An Atypical Presentation of Sweet's Syndrome in a Patient With Neutropenia: A Case Report. Cureus. 2025 Feb.17(2):e79023. Pubmedid: 40099100. Pmcid: PMC11911253.
• Crowder SL, Hoogland AI, Small BJ, Carpenter KM, Fischer SM, Li D, Kinney AY, Welniak TL, Brownstein N, Reich RR, Hembree T, Extermann M, Kim R, Afiat TP, Berry DL, Turner K, Jim HSL. Associations among frailty and quality of life in older patients with cancer treated with chemotherapy. Geriatr Oncol. 2022 Nov.13(8):1149-1155. Pubmedid: 36008271. Pmcid: PMC9871794.
• Parikh P, Rose T, Jeong D, Lam CA, Afiat TP, Rosa M, Araujo C. Diffuse intrasinusoidal hepatic metastasis from breast cancer: Multimodality imaging with pathology correlation. Radiol Case Rep. 2021 May.16(5):1005-1009. Pubmedid: 33680266. Pmcid: PMC7917459.
• Afiat TP, Johns C, Smith J, Kis B, Druta M. Adrenal crisis and death following transarterial chemoembolization of sarcoma liver metastases. Clin Imaging. 2021 Jan.69:79-81. Pubmedid: 32693227.
• Afiat TN, Hembree TN, Dean EA, Araujo C, Pena LR, Rosa M, Han HS, Hendrix K, Ramsakal A. Diffuse Intrasinusoidal Hepatic Metastasis from Breast Cancer Presenting as Liver Failure: Effective and Rapid Treatment with Weekly Low-Dose Adriamycin. Am J Case Rep. 2020 Sep.21:e924141. Pubmedid: 32877389. Pmcid: PMC7491943.
• Afiat TP, Zhang X, Zhang H, Ayala E, Zhang L, Sokol L. Sezary syndrome manifesting as posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder. Leuk Res Rep. 2018 May.9:72-75. Pubmedid: 29761072. Pmcid: PMC5948470.
• Nguyen TP, Nanjappa S, Muddaraju M, Greene JN. Pulmonary Talcosis in an Immunocompromised Patient. Case Rep Med. 2016 Jul.2016:4678637. Pubmedid: 27446215. Pmcid: PMC4944058.