Sita Bhella MD, MEd, FRCPC

Dr. Sita Bhella completed her medical school training at University of Western Ontario. She completed internal medicine and hematology residency at the University of Toronto, and then went on to do a Leukemia and Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant Fellowship at Princess Margaret Cancer Center in Toronto. She completed a Master’s in Education, with a focus in Health Professionals Education, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Dr. Bhella has a strong interest in quality improvement and innovation and has completed several courses in the area such as the Excellence in Quality Improvement Certificate Program (EQUIP), Advancing Safety for Patients in Residency Education (ASPIRE) and the IDEAS Foundations of Quality Improvement Certificate.

From 2015-2019, Dr. Bhella was an assistant professor at Queen’s University, where she was the Autologous Stem Cell Transplant Medical Director. She was engaged and involved in medical education as well as quality improvement in the complex malignant hematology program. During her time there, she developed a Day +100 transfer program for Allogeneic stem cell transplantation and a Day+1 transfer program for autologous stem cell transplantation with Lakeridge Hospital.

Dr. Bhella joined Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in 2019, as an assistant professor and a clinician in quality improvement and innovation. Dr. Bhella has an interest in malignant hematology, particularly lymphoma, myeloma, autologous stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy. She is Quality Lead of the Autologous Stem Cell Transplant Program at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and is engaged and involved in the development of CAR T-cell therapy program, particularly the long term survivorship program.