Brandon Blue, MD

Associations

• Malignant Hematology
• Health Outcomes & Behavior Program

Education & Training

Fellowship:

• Moffitt Cancer Center - Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy
• Saint Louis University School of Medicine - Hematology/Oncology

Residency:

• Washington University School of Medicine - Internal Medicine

Medical School:

• Meharry Medical College - MD

Dr. Blue specializes in plasma cell disorders and evaluation and treatment of patients prior to and after stem cell transplantation. Dr. Blue has a research focus in outcomes research. His interest is to explore and eliminate health disparities as it relates to hematologic malignancies.

Clinical Trial 21858
A Phase 2, Multicohort Study of Daratumumab-Based Therapies in Participants with Amyloid Light Chain AL Amyloidosis
Condition: Malignant Hematology
Intervention: Bortezomib (); Daratumumab (Darzalex); Dexamethasone (); Diphenhydramine (); PS-341 (Bortezomib); Velcade (Bortezomib); acetaminophen (); cyclophosphamide (); cytoxan (cyclophosphamide)
Status: Open

If you believe you are eligible for one of these trials or studies, please call
813-745-6100 or toll-free 1-800-679-0775.

• Blue B, Pierre A, Mikhael J. Culturally Responsive Care Delivery in Oncology: The Example of Multiple Myeloma. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2023 Sep.23(9):651-659. Pubmedid: 37290997.
• Akhtar OS, Sheeba BA, Azad F, Alessi L, Hansen D, Alsina M, Baz R, Shain K, Grajales Cruz A, Castaneda Puglianini O, Liu H, Blue B, Nishihori T, Al Jumayli M, Extermann M, Locke FL, Mhaskar R, Freeman CL. Safety and efficacy of anti-BCMA CAR-T cell therapy in older adults with multiple myeloma: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Geriatr Oncol. 2023 Sep.101628. Pubmedid: 37723045.
• Blue BJ, Brazauskas R, Chen K, Patel J, Hashmi S, Lehmann L, Bhatt N, Wood W, Saber W, Majhail N. Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Long-Term Outcomes in ≥1 Year Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survivors: A Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research Analysis. Transplant Cell Ther. 2023 Jul. Pubmedid: 37482244.
• Lee DH, Kumar A, Mohammed T, Peres LC, Alsina M, Bachmeier CA, Blue B, Brayer J, Chandrasekhar S, Grajales-Cruz AF, De Avila G, Elmariah H, Faramand RG, Freeman CL, Jain MD, Khadka S, Khimani F, Liu H, Nishihori T, Oswald LB, Castaneda Puglianini OA, Shain KH, Smith E, Baz RC, Locke FL, Oliveira GH, Alomar M, Hansen DK. Cardiac events after standard of care idecabtagene vicleucel for relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma. Blood Adv. 2023 Aug.7(16):4247-4257. Pubmedid: 37307173. Pmcid: PMC10424134.
• Peres LC, Colin-Leitzinger C, Teng M, Dutil J, Alugubelli RR, DeAvila G, Teer JK, Du D, Mo Q, Siegel EM, Hampton O, Alsina M, Brayer J, Blue B, Baz R, Siqueira Silva A, Nishihori T, Shain KH, Gillis N. Racial and ethnic differences in clonal hematopoiesis, tumor markers, and outcomes of patients with multiple myeloma. Blood Adv. 2022 Jun.6(12):3767-3778. Pubmedid: 35500227. Pmcid: PMC9631567.
• Blue B. Socioeconomic and Racial Disparity in Chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CART)Therapy Access. Transplant Cell Ther. 2022 Jul.28(7):345-346. Pubmedid: 35779944.
• Logue JM, Peres LC, Hashmi H, Colin-Leitzinger C, Shrewsbury AM, Hosoya H, Gonzalez R, Copponex C, Kottra KH, Hovanky V, Sahaf B, Patil S, Lazaryan A, Jain MD, Baluch A, Klinkova O, Bejanyan N, Faramand RG, Elmariah H, Khimani F, Davila ML, Mishra A, Blue B, Grajales-Cruz AF, Castaneda Puglianini O, Liu H, Nishihori T, Freeman CL, Brayer J, Shain KH, Baz R, Locke FL, Alsina M, Sidana S, Hansen DK. Early cytopenias and infections after standard of care idecabtagene vicleucel in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. Blood Adv. 2022 Dec.6(24):6109-6119. Pubmedid: 35939783. Pmcid: PMC9768247.
• Zhang Y, Duncanson L, Brayer J, Reu F, Hansen D, Alsina M, Nishihori T, Ochoa-Bayona J, Liu H, Shain K, Thompson Z, Baz R, Blue B. Adding Cyclophosphamide to Bortezomib and Dexamethasone was not Associated With Improved Outcomes of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Light Chain Amyloidosis: A Retrospective Study. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2022 Aug.22(8):e770-e776. Pubmedid: 35504808.
• Fonseca JJ, Yeats AL, Blue B, Zalalutdinov MK, Brintlinger T, Simpkins BS, Ratchford DC, Culbertson JC, Grim JQ, Carter SG, Ishigami M, Stroud RM, Cress CD, Robinson JT. Enabling remote quantum emission in 2D semiconductors via porous metallic networks. Nat Commun. 2020 Jan.11(1):5. Pubmedid: 31911592. Pmcid: PMC6946668.
• Blue B, Vegunta R, Rodin M, Patolia S, Poddar N. Impact of an Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients. Cureus. 2018 Jul.10(7):e3016. Pubmedid: 30254805. Pmcid: PMC6150761.
• Blue BJ, Luo S, Sanfilippo KM, Ganti A, Gumbel J, O'Brian K, Carson KR. Race-based differences in routine cytogenetic profiles of patients with multiple myeloma. Brit J Haematol. 2017 Jan.176(2):322-324. Pubmedid: 26887893.
• Sanfilippo KM, Keller J, Gage BF, Luo S, Wang TF, Moskowitz G, Gumbel J, Blue B, O'Brian K, Carson KR. Statins Are Associated With Reduced Mortality in Multiple Myeloma. J Clin Oncol. 2016 Nov.34(33):4008-4014. Pubmedid: 27646948. Pmcid: PMC5477827.