Cardiology
Citizenship: United States of America
Certified, American Board of Pediatrics, October 2000
Certified, American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-Board of Pediatric Cardiology in Oct 2004
EDUCATION
College: St. Francis Junior College June 1984- May1986 Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Graduate: Gandhi Medical College, Osmania University June 1986- Oct 1991 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Internship: Gandhi hospital and affiliated centers Nov 1991 – Nov 1992 of Osmania University
Residency: Postgraduation in Pediatrics Aug 1993 – Oct 1995 Institute of Child Health and Nilofer Hospital
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Research assistant: Division of Research May 1996 – Dec 1996 Kaiser Permanente Hospital
Oakland, California
Residency: Residency in Pediatrics July 1997 to June 2000 Cook County Children’s Hospital
Chicago, Illinois
Fellowship: Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology July 2000 to July 2003 Children’s Hospital of Michigan,
Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan.
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Aug 2003 – 2009 Division of Cardiology
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
Chief consultant Pediatric Cardiologist, Apollo health city,
Hyderabad October 2013-present
Consultant Perinatal Cardiologist: Rainbow Hospitals,
Vijaymarie Hospital October 2013-2016
Consultant Perinatal Cardiologist: Fernandez Hospital March 2010-2015 Chief Consultant Cardiologist: Lotus Children’s Hospital April 2010- June 2012 Attending physician: Cardiology, Children’s Hospital
of Michigan 2003 –Aug 2009
Consultant, Huron Valley Sinai Hospital 2003 – Aug 2009
Consultant, Sinai Grace Hospital 2003 – Aug 2009
Consultant, Henry Ford Hospital 2004 –Aug 2009
Consultant, St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital, Oakland 2004 – Aug 2009 Consultant, St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital, Mt. Clemens, 2004 – Aug 2009 Consultant, Crittenton Medical Center 2004 – Aug 2009
Consultant, St. John’s Povidence 2008 – Aug 2009 Chief Pediatric cardiologist, Lotus Children’s Hospital, India Jan 2010- June 2012 Consultant Pediatric cardiologist, Fernandez Perinatology Center Jan 2010-2016
MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Fellow, American College of Cardiology Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics Fellow, American Society of Echocardiography
Core Committee, Hyderabad chapter, Global Foundation for Ethics and Spirituality (GFESH)
Member, Ethics Committee, Apollo Institute of Medical Sciences and Research
Member, American Heart Association
Member, Women in Cardiology section, American College of Cardiology Member, Congenital Heart disease section, American College of Cardiology Member, American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
Member, Pulmonary Hypertension Physicians and Researchers, Pulmonary Hypertension Association
Member, Pediatric Cardiac Society of India Member, Indian Academy of Pediatrics
Member, Indian Society of Perinatology and Reproductive Biology
MEDICAL LICENSURE
Licensure: State of Telangana Licensure: State of Andhra Pradesh Licensure: Illinois, July 1997 – July 200
Licensure: Michigan, Board of Medicine, L1428389
Licensure: Michigan, Board of Pharmacy, Controlled substance, L1438388
BOARD CERTIFICATION
Certified, American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-Board of Pediatric Cardiology, Certificate No. 1760.
Certified, American Board of Pediatrics
HONORS/ AWARDS
1) Wayne State University School of Medicine Teaching Award 2007
2) Physician’s Recognition Award, American Medical association (2004-2007)
3) The American Heart Association/ Wyeth-Ayerst Women in Cardiology Travel Grant Award (2002)
4) Finalist, Wolf Zuelzer research award, 2001
5) Certificate of Distinction for outstanding performance in Pathology and Ophthalmology in Medical School.
6) Best Outgoing Student Award in College
7) Best Outgoing Student Award in High School
SERVICE
Wayne State University
• Director, Fetal Cardiac Program: oversee all aspects of fetal cardiology program including fetal echocardiography studies, act as liaison for multidisciplinary team involved in patient care for pregnancies with congenital heart disease, devising fetal intake questionnaires, fetal echo protocol for lab and fetal echo digital reporting templates and coordinating fetal cardiac training for fellows.
• Co Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program: launched pulmonary hypertension program in March 2009; oversee all aspects of this new clinical discipline including outpatient and inpatient patient care, patient and staff education.
• Fellowship, Co Director, Cardiology Fellowship Program, CHM
Provide oversight to fellowship program, assist in fellow recruitment, curriculum development, fellowship policies and evaluation.
• Chair, Educational committee, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program: oversee all aspects of fellow education
• Director, Quality assurance, Division of cardiology: review cases for morbidity and mortality and quality assurance in cardiology; conduct monthly QA meetings and submit monthly reports to Clinical Improvement Division
• Coordinator, Fetal Cardiology Elective for Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellows
• Member, Clinical Excellence Committee, Children’s Hospital of Michigan
• Member, Fetal assessment clinics, Hutzel Hospital
University Pediatricians Group
2003- Aug 2009: Ward attending in Pediatrics and Cardiology, Children’s Hospital of Michigan (4 weeks/year, 24 hr/day)
2003- Aug 2009: Pediatric Cardiology outpatient clinic, Children’s Hospital of Michigan (1.5 days/week, 8 hr/day)
2003- Aug 2009: Echocardiography lab, Children’s Hospital of Michigan Supervise and interpret echocardiographic studies
(1-2 days/week, 8-10 hrs/ day, 25-40 studies/day)
2003- Aug 2009: Transesophageal echocardiography, Cardiac operating room
and catheterization lab, Children’s Hospital of Michigan (1-2 days/week, 2 hrs/ day, 2-4 studies/day)
2003- Aug 2009: Fetal echocardiographic services and counseling to families,
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
(1-2 days/week, 2-hrs/ day, 3-4 studies/day)
11/2007- Aug 2009: Fetal Cardiology Clinic, Children’s Hospital of Michigan (1/ 2 day/week)
Lotus Children’s Hospital (Jan 2010-June 2012) established dedicated pediatric cardiology program with cardiovascular surgery. First private children’s hospital in the country to have its own cardiovascular surgical program and cath lab
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Fernandez Hospital, rainbow Hospitals, Vijay Marie Hospitals: provide fetal/perinatal cardiac care including fetal echocardiography, counseling, delivery plan and perinatal mangement.
Apollo Health city, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad:
o Head of the Department:
o Service:
o Pediatric Cardiology outpatient clinic, see complex congenital heart disease both from urban and rural areas of the state
o Pediatric cardiology inpatient service
o Cardiac ICU: provide care to postoperative cardiac pts.
o Echocardiography lab, perform, supervise and interpret echocardiographic studies
o Transesophageal echocardiography, Cardiac operating room and catheterization lab,
o Established Fetal heart program: provide fetal echocardiographic services and counseling to families
Affiliate Medical Organizations:
2004- 2009: Pediatric Cardiology Consulting Service, Hospitals listed under Consulting staff (6 weeks/year, 24 hr/day)
2004- 2009: Pediatric Cardiology Clinic, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit Consulting staff (Approx. 2 days/month, 8 hr/day)
2003- 2009: Telemedicine – provide echocardiographic interpretation
services for studies performed at several peripheral hospitals (1-2 days/week, 2-3 hrs/ day, 4-6 studies/day)
2003- 2009: Fetal Clinic, St. Joseph Mercy hospital, Oakland (2 days/month, 4 hrs/ day, 4-6 studies/day)
2010 – present: Krishna Childrens Hospital, Happy Childrens Hospital, Femina Hospital, Star Hospitals, Vijay Marie Hospital, Princess Durru Shehvar Hospital, Muslim Maternity Nursing Home, Fernandez Hospital, SVM hospital etc.
Founder, Andhra Pradesh Pediatric Cardiac network: founded this society which networks all local physicians/ancillary staff involved in cardiac care for kids.
Community:
Global health care: volunteer staff cardiologist for Medical mission trip to the Dominican Republic, Feb 2007
Conducted free Medical camp in Mayapur, India, June 2008 Conduct CHD screening camps in rural areas of India 2010-present
Scholarly Service
• Editorial Board Member: Synopsis, A current Survey of World Literature in Pediatrics
• Review of Manuscripts:
Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Congenital Heart Disease
Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology
Heart
Cardiology in the Young
• Member, Scholarly Oversight Committee, Division of Cardiology (this committee oversees all aspects of fellow research, meets monthly/twice a month, make recommendations and assists fellows in research, determines if fellow has met ABP requirements for scholarly activity)
TEACHING:
Teaching at WSU; Aug 2003-Aug 2009
Medical students, Residents, Cardiology Fellows, Maternal Fetal medicine fellows
Mentorship
• WSU medical students, year IV
Otto, Mathew, Shivaraju, Anupama, Du, Elizabeth, Ifill, Christopher etc
• Pediatric residents (1-2/yr)
1) Mentored resident Dr SV Reddy who won 2 awards at the Michigan State University – Resident Investigator Research Award and Best case Report Bilateral Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms in A Patient With Kawasaki
Disease – A Therapeutic Dilemma
2) Mentored resident Dr Sanket Shah, who had 2 abstracts accepted at the American Society of Echocardiography meeting, June 2008
i) Adequacy of Left Ventricular Wall Thickness Measures in the Assessment of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
ii) Ethnic influence on Cardiac structure in Children with Hypertension
3) Other residents – Co, Maridine, Kunde, Sachin
• Cardiology fellows
1) Dr. Nishant Shah, who presented 2 abstracts
i) Sensitivity of Electrocardiographic criteria for Screening Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in children. Poster presentation at Mid-Western Society of Pediatric Research (MWSPR), October, 2008
ii) Electrocardiographic strain pattern in children with left ventricular hypertrophy- a marker of cardiac dysfunction. Poster presentation at American College of Cardiology (ACC), Michigan Chapter, September, 2008.
2) Dr. Patel, who published
i) Evidence Based Journal Review on Randomized Trial of Pulsed Corticosteroid therapy for Primary Treatment of Kawasaki Disease published in Synopsis, Vol 10, number 1, March 2008
ii) presented abstract “Unrecognized need for interventional devices during electrophysiology procedures in young adults with Mustard operation” at ODICH meeting, May 2009
3) Dr. David Stone, who published the manuscript
Altered Prostaglandin E(1) Dosage During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Newborn with Ductal-dependent Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatr Cardiol. 2006 Jun;27(3):360-363
4) Mentor all cardiology fellows in developing presentations skills thorough ‘core lectures’, held monthly
Teaching in India: Jan 2010-present: teach residents, fellows and junior cardiologists in hospital setting; provide CME seminars for pediatricians outside hospital regularly
Mentorship: (1) Dr. Gaurav Aggrawal who published Antenatal diagnosis of idiopathic arterial calcification with hydrops fetalis. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Jul;16(7):816 & Transcatheter closure of ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm in a pregnant woman in Journal of cardiology cases 2015 (2) Dr. Nitin Yelikar, FNB fellows, Apollo Hospitals
Course/curriculum development/course material
• Prepared Fetal Echocardiography Protocol to assist systematic performance of fetal imaging studies in the CHM Echocardiography Lab (2005)
• Developed Digital reporting templates for Fetal Echocardiographic studies (2005)
• Contributed to patient brochure on Fetal Echocardiographic services at CHM (2004)
• Developed Cardiology Fellow monthly Evaluation forms for New Innovations (2005)
• Fetal Echocardiography course manual, Pegasus (2006)
• Faculty annual research activity booklet (yearly, from 2005)
• Fetal Cardiology curriculum for maternal fetal medicine fellows (2007)
• Prepare monthly conference schedules for fellows (since 2007)
• Supervise fellow curriculum and core lectures (since 2007)
• Congenital Heart Disease training manual (CD and workbook), in preparation, to be published by Pegasus Lectures
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
Organizing Secretary for State level conference, “ Medical Profession at The Cross Roads” under Global Foundation for Ethics & Spiritual Health, June 2016
GRANTS, CONTRACTS AND OTHER FUNDING:
Title: Cardiac structure and function in small for gestational age infants Source: Research Grant Program, Children’s Research Center of Michigan Period: July 2008-June 2009
Role: PI
Budget: $ 47, 564
Previously submitted, not funded:
1. Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial of Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty Versus Surgical Aortic Valvuloplasty in the Management of Infantile Critical Aortic Valve Stenosis (ICAS Trial)
Grant application submitted in response to NHLBI Pediatric Heart Network’s RFA-HL-05-010, 2006; Role: Co-PI
2. Cardiac structure and function in small for gestational age infants
Source: Small Grants Program, Children’s Research Center of Michigan, 2007
CLINICAL TRIALS:
1. A Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Immunogenicity of MEDI-524, a Humanized Enhanced Potency Monoclonal Antibody Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), in Children with Hemodynamically Significant Congenital Heart Disease
Period: Sept 2005- March 2006 Role: Site PI for multicenter trial Source: MedImmune
Budget: $32,529
2. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 3 Study of the Phoshodiesterase Type 5 (PDE5) Inhibitor Tadalifil in the Treatment of Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.
Period: 12/5/05-1/16/07 Source: Lilly-ICOS
Role: Site Co-PI for multicenter trial Budget: $97,512.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
Reports of original work
1. Antenatal diagnosis of idiopathic arterial calcification with hydrops fetalis. Agrawal G, Chintala K. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Jul;16(7):816. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jev073. Epub 2015 Apr 6. No abstract available.
2. Atrial baffle problems following the mustard operation in children and young adults with dextro-transposition of the great arteries: the need for improved
clinical detection in the current era. Patel S, Shah D, Chintala K, Karpawich PP. Congenit Heart Dis. 2011 Sep;6(5):466-74. doi: 10.1111/j.1747- 0803.2011.00532.x. Epub 2011 Jun 22.
3. Postprocedural outcomes of rural children undergoing correction of congenital heart lesions in Yunnan Province, China. Ho TC, Ouyang H, Lu Y, Young AH, Chintala K, Detrano RC. Pediatr Cardiol. 2011 Aug;32(6):811-4. Epub 2011 Apr 11.
4. Electrocardiographic strain pattern in children with left ventricular hypertrophy: a marker of ventricular dysfunction. Shah N, Chintala K, Aggarwal S. Pediatr Cardiol. 2010 Aug;31(6):800-6. Epub 2010 Apr 27.
5. Efect of aerosolized PGE1 on ductus arteriosus of neonatal swine. Sood BG, Chintala K, Wykes S, Gurczynski J, Chen X, Rabah R. Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediat. 2009 Nov;90(1-2):49-54. Epub 2009 Aug 15.
6. Chintala K, Tian Z, Du W, Donaghue D, Rychik J. Fetal Pulmonary Venous Doppler Patterns in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome : Relationship to Atrial Septal Restriction. *Heart 2008 Nov;94(11):1446-9. (*one of the premier journals of our discipline)
7. Chintala K, Epstein ML, Singh TP. Longitudinal Changes in Heart rate-corrected Measures of Exercise Performance in Children. Pediatr Cardiol. 2008 Jan;29(1):60-4.
8. Chintala K, Forbes TJ, Karpawich PP. Effectiveness of transvenous pacemaker leads placed through intravascular stents in patients with congenital heart disease. Am J Cardiol. 2005 Feb 1;95(3):424-7.
9. Goncalves LF, Romero R, Espinoza J, Lee W, Treadwell M, Chintala K, Chaiworapongsa T. Four-dimensional ultrasonography of the fetal heart using color Doppler spatiotemporal image correlation. J Ultrasound Med. 2004 Apr;23(4):473-81.( implementation, manuscript writing)
10. Chintala K, Turner DR, Leaman S*, Rodriguez-Cruz E, Wynne J, Greenbaum A, Forbes TJ. Use of balloon pull-through technique to assist in CardioSEAL device closure of patent foramen ovale. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2003;60:101-106
Case reports
1. Transcatheter closure of ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm in a pregnant woman Gaurav Agrawal (MD), Manoj Agarwal (MD, DM), Kavitha Chintala (MD, FACC, FASE) Aggarwal S, Chintala K. Journal of cardiology cases 2015
2. Hemodynamic Effect of Fetal Supraventricular Tachycardia on the Unaffected Twin. Prenat Diagn. 2009 Mar;29(3):292-3.
3. Aggarwal S, Chintala K, Humes AR. Sildenafil use in a symptomatic neonate with severe Ebstein’s anomaly of the tricuspid valve. Am J Perinatol. 2008 Feb;25(2):125-8. Epub 2007 Dec
4. Chintala, K, Gurczynski, J, Aggarwal, S. Prenatal Diagnosis of Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect with Truncus Arteriosus. Prenatal Diagnosis, 2007 Jun;27(6):560-2.
5. Turner K 3rd, Ozaki M, Hayes D Jr, Harahsheh A*, Moltz K, Chintala K, Knazik S, Kamat D, Dunnigan D. Index of suspicion. Pediatr Rev. 2006 Jun;27(6):231-7.
6. Stone D, Frattarelli DA, Karthikeyan S, Johnson YR, Chintala K. Altered Prostaglandin E(1) Dosage During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Newborn with Ductal-dependent Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatr Cardiol. 2006 Jun;27(3):360-363
7. Chintala K, Bloom DA, Walters HL 3rd, Pettersen MD. Images in cardiology: Pericardial yolk sac tumor presenting as cardiac tamponade in a 21-month-old child. Clin Cardiol. 2004 Jul;27(7):411
8. Mosieri J, Chintala K, Delius RE, Walters HL 3rd, Hakimi M. Abnormal origin of the right subclavian artery from the right pulmonary artery in a patient with D- transposition of the great vessels and left juxtaposition of the right atrial appendage: an unusual anatomical variant. J Card Surg. 2004 Jan-Feb;19(1):41-4
Review articles:
1) Reddy SV*, Forbes TJ, Chintala, K. Cardiovascular involvement in Kawasaki Disease. Images Pediatr Cardiol 2005;23:1-19 (Invited)
Letters to the Editor
1) Chintala, K. Hypoplastic left heart syndrome with restrictive atrial septal defect: influence on cardiac transplantation. Pediatr Cardiol. 2004 Jul-Aug;25(4):429
Books and Chapters:
1. Chintala K, Tantengco MVT. Echocardiographic Assessment of Right Ventricular Function. Pediatric Ultrasound Today 2002; Number 4, Volume 7 (Invited)
2. Co-author for Handbook on Blood Transfusion, ICH (India)
Others:
1) Patel, S*, Chintala, K. Randomized Trial of Pulsed Corticosteroid therapy for Primary Treatment of Kawasaki Disease: Evidence Based Journal Review. Synopsis, Vol 10, number 1, March 2008
Abstracts:
1) Sheetal Patel * Kavitha Chintala, Peter P Karpawich. Unrecognized need for interventional devices during electrophysiology procedures in young adults with Mustard operation. Oral presentation at Wolf Zuelzer awards at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in 2009 and at ODICH meeting, May 2009
1) Nishant C Shah*, Kavitha Chintala, Sanjeev Aggarwal. Sensitivity of electrocardiographic criteria in screening for left ventricular hypertrophy in children. Oral presentation for Wolf Zuelzer awards at Children’ Hospital of Michigan in 2008. Poster presentation at Mid-Western Society of Pediatric Research (MWSPR), October, 2008.
2) Nishant C Shah*, Kavitha Chintala, Sanjeev Aggarwal. Electrocardiographic strain pattern in children with left ventricular hypertrophy- a marker of cardiac dysfunction Poster presentation at American College of Cardiology (ACC), Michigan Chapter,
September, 2008. Accepted for presentation at American Society of Echocardiography, June 2009
3) Chintala, K, Sanket Shah*, Gaurav Kapoor*, Wei Du, Tej Mattoo. Adequacy of Left Ventricular Wall Thickness Measures in the Assessment of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy. Presented at the 2008 American Society of Echocardiography meeting, Toronto, Canada June 2008
4) Sanket Shah*, Tej Mattoo, Gaurav Kapoor*, Wei Du, Kavitha Chintala. Ethnic Influence on Cardiac Structure in Hypertensive Children. Presented at the 2008 American Society of Echocardiography meeting, Toronto, Canada June 2008
5) Sanjeev Aggarwal, Kavitha Chintala. Exercise capacity following Fontan procedure: Does ventricular morphology matter? Presented at the 2008 Pediatric Academic Societies meeting, Hawaii May 2008
6) Chintala, K. Gurczynski J, Sood BG. Effect of inhaled PGE1 on the swine ductus arteriosus. Presented at the 2007 Pediatric Academic Societies meeting, Toronto, Canada May 2007
7) Karpawich PP, Chintala K, Turner D, Forbes T. Need for Associated Interventional Devices during Ablation and Pacemaker Implant in Young Adults with Transposition/Mustard Anatomy. Heart Rhythm 3, No. 5, S175, 2006
8) J Moldenhauer, D Turner, S Hassan, A Johnson, K Chintala, I Hendler, N Khalek, T Forbes. A Sheep Model for in utero Balloon Valvuloplasty. Presented at the International Fetal Intervention meeting at Charleston, NC March 24, 2004.
9) S. Garekar, K. Chintala, P. Karpawich, M. Pettersen. Real Time 3 Dimensional Echocardiographic evaluation of Global and regional Left Ventricular Systolic Function in Young Patients Paced for Congenital Complete Heart Block. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004; 43A(5): 393A
10) K. Chintala, Z. Tian, DD. Donaghue, RL. Thomas, J. Rychik Fetal Pulmonary Venous Doppler patterns in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: Relationship to Atrial Septal Restriction. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004; 43A(5): 381A
11) Chintala K, Forbes TJ, Karpawich PP. Clinical profile and Intermediate-term Follow-up of Transvenous Pacing Leads Placed through Intravasular Stents in the Young with Congenital Heart Disease. J Am Coll Cardiol 2003; 41A(6): 138A
12) Chintala K, Turner DR, Rodriguez- Cruz E, Wynne J, Webster PA, Forbes TJ. Use of Balloon Pull Through Technique to Assist in Placement of the CardioSEAL Device for Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2002; 56 (1):1
13) Chintala K, Epstein ML, Singh TP. Progressive Changes in Heart-rate Corrected Measures of Exercise Performance in Children. Pediatric Cardiology 2001;:22(5):448
INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS:
National
1. Fetal echocardiography course, Pegasus Lectures, Chicago, IL. A 2- day series of comprehensive lectures about all congenital and acquired fetal heart diseases that is designed to prepare individuals for Fetal Echocardiography Credentialing Examination (Sept 16-17, 2006)
2. Fetal echocardiography course, Pegasus Lectures, Newark, NJ. A 2- day series of comprehensive lectures designed to prepare individuals for Fetal Echocardiography Credentialing Examination (Sept 8-9, 2007)
3. Fetal echocardiography course, Pegasus Lectures, Tampa, FL. A 2- day series of comprehensive lectures designed to prepare individuals for Fetal Echocardiography Credentialing Examination (July 19-20, 2008)
4. Hypertension in children: approach and management. National Pediatric Critical Care Conference. Hyderabad, India. Nov 2011
5. Role of Echocardiography in monitoring Fluid and Hemodynamics in pediatric ICU. National Pediatric Critical care Conference. Hyderabad , India. Nov 2011
6. Economics of Spirituality. Association of Medical Consultants, Maharashtra. Mumbai. Dec 11, 2011
7. Evolution of Hypoplastic Left heart syndrome. National conference. Pediatric Cardiac Society of India. Chennai 2012.
Regional
1) Fetal Heart: The normal and the Abnormal. Ultrasound Course, Division of OB/GYN, Statewide Campus system, MSU. (Jan 5, 2005)
2) Fetal Echocardiography& Imaging in Congenital Heart Disease, 30th Annual Spring Symposium, Michigan Society of Echocardiography (2 hrs, April 28, 2006)
3) Assessment of right ventricular function. Presentation to Division of Cardiology, Children’s Memorial Hospital. Northwestern University, Chicago May 2003
4) Scope and service of Fetal Echo. APCOG, Hyderabad, 2010
5) Does antenatal diagnosis of Fetal cardiac anomalies improve perinatal outcome. ISOPARB, Eluru, 2010
6) Approach to congenital heart disease, IAP. Eluru, 2010
7) Management of newborn CHD and PPHN, Panel discussion, PCSI, Mumbai 2010
8) Decision making in antenatal cardiac anomalies. ISOPARB 2011
9) Recent Advances in management of congestive cardiac failure. Pediatric subspecialities seminar. IAP-TCB. Hyderabad April 10, 2011.
10) Case scenarios in Pediatric Cardiology. IAP warangal. 2011
11) Interesting case presentations. FOGSI, 2012
12) Fetal Echocardiography for Obstetricians. IAP Warangal 2012
13) Neonatal tachyarrhythmias: Neocon 2013, Hyderabad. Annual National Neonatology Forum conference
14) Basics of Fetal Echocardiography, Karimnagar, March 2017
15) Approach to Congenital heart Disease, IAP Karimnagar, March 2017
16) Basics of Pediatric ECG, National Assembly on Pediatric Emergency Medicine (NAPEM) 2017, Hyderabad
Local: 70-80 lectures on various pediatric cardiology topics
Invited Workshops:
National Fetal echocardiography workshop: 2 days workshop course teaching basics of Fetal Echocardiography, technique of FE and detection of CHD (2005, 2006, 2007), various places in USA
Pediatric ECG workshop: Basics of pediatric ECG, Postoperative arrhythmias & Using defibrillator in children, National Assembly on Pediatric Emergency Medicine (NAPEM) 2017, Hyderabad
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