Keynote Presentation: 
Raising Awareness and Addressing Immunodeficiency in Blood Cancers

S Shahzad Mustafa, MD
Rochester Regional Health

Dr. S Shahzad Mustafa pursued his undergraduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University and attended medical school at SUNY Buffalo. He then completed his internal medicine training at the University of Colorado and stayed in Denver to complete his fellowship training in allergy and clinical immunology at the University of Colorado, National Jewish Health, and Children’s Hospital of Denver. Dr. Mustafa is the chief of allergy, immunology, and rheumatology at Rochester Regional Health, where he sees both pediatric and adult patients. Dr. Mustafa is also on faculty at the University of Rochester, where he is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, and the clerkship director for the medical student elective in allergy/clinical immunology. In addition to teaching and seeing patients, Dr. Mustafa is also a lead investigator on multiple clinical research projects, with a special interest in secondary immunodeficiency due to malignancy and chemotherapeutics.