Umakumaran Ponniah, M.D.
Associate Professor
Co-Director, Echocardiography
Director, Pediatric cardiac MR
Section of Pediatric Cardiology
1200 Everett Dr., Suite NP-2350
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Phone: (405) 271-4411
Fax: (405) 271-5055
Email: kumar-ponniah@ouhsc.edu
EDUCATION and TRAINING
6/2011 to 8/2011 Trainee in Pediatric Cardiac MR, Division of Pediatric Radiology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas
1998-01 Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
1996-98 Resident in Pediatrics at Milton Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
1995-96 Registrar (Fellow) in Neonatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia
1993 Diplomat of National Board in Pediatrics (DNB), India
1990-92 M.D. (Post graduate Master’s degree in Pediatrics), Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Sick Children, Madras Medical College, India
1986-88 Post graduate trainee in Pediatrics, D.C.H. (Post graduate Diploma in Child Health) Children’s Hospital, Mysore, Mysore Medical College, India
1985 Rotating Internship including Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Community Medicine
1980-84 M.B., B.S. (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery), Karnataka Medical College, Hubli, Karnataka, India
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Academic:
July 2014- present Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Oklahoma Health Science Center
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Nov 2005 to July 2014 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Oklahoma Health Science Center
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 2001 – August 2005 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
SUNY, Upstate Medical University,
Binghamton campus.
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Binghamton, NY
January 1995-June 1996 Registrar
Department of Neonatology
Royal North Shore Hospital
Sydney
NSW, Australia
February 1993–Jan 1995 Lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics, M.S.Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, India
February 1989–Aug 1990 Research Officer
Indian Council of Medical Research, Division of Human Genetics
St, John’s Hospital
Bangalore, India
2. Hospital/Agency: Title, Institution.
October 1986 – Nov 1986 Senior House Officer
Department of Neurology
St. John’s Medical College
Bangalore, India
February 1986 – Sep 1986 Senior House Officer
Department of internal medicine
St. Martha’s Hospital
Bangalore, India
BOARD STATUS
1. American Board of Pediatrics
Sub board of Pediatric Cardiology
Certificate # 1828
Initial Certification August 2004
Recertified 2014
2. American Board of Pediatrics
Certificate # 065463
Initial Certification October 1998
Expired December 2005
LICENSES
Oklahoma State Medical License
Date Issued: August 26, 2005
Status: Current
SCHOLARSHIP
Teaching Materials Developed
The Oklahoma Chapter AAP Obesity Tool Kit: A practical guide to assess and manage pediatric obesity. Authors Joseph Marshall Sadler, Jessica Brown, Kumar Ponniah, Eve Switzer, Edward Legako, Stephen Gillaspy, and Ashley Weedn 1. Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States. 2. Oklahoma Chapter AAP, Oklahoma City, OK, United States.
http://www.okaap.org/PDFs/OKAAP%20Obesity%20Tool%20Kit%2083011.pdf
The obesity tool kit is an open access online tool for pediatricians and other primary care providers.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed
1.Mir A, Burkhart HM, Ponniah K, Ward K. Intramural Coronary Artery in Truncus Arteriosus. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2017 Jan 1:2150135116682453. doi: 10.1177/2150135116682453
2.Ponniah U, Overholt E. Severe reversible dilated cardiomyopathy associated with a large left ventricular thrombus in a young child with middle aortic syndrome. Images Paediatr Cardiol 2014;16(4):7-13.
3.Ponniah U. Coronary artery thrombus resulting in sudden cardiac death in an infant with Kawasaki disease and giant coronary artery aneurysms. Ann Pediatr Cardiol. 2013 Jul;6(2):197-9. doi: 10.4103/0974-2069.115281
* Mentored trainee
3.Morimoto M, Yu Z, Stenzel P, Clewing JM, Najafian B, Mayfield C, Hendson G, Weinkauf JG, Gormley AK, Parham DM, Ponniah U, André JL, Asakura Y, Basiratnia M, Bogdanović R, Bokenkamp A, Bonneau D, Buck A, Charrow J, Cochat P, Cordeiro I, Deschenes G, Fenkçi MS, Frange P, Fründ S, Fryssira H, Guillen-Navarro E, Keller K, Kirmani S, Kobelka C, Lamfers P, Levtchenko E, Lewis DB, Massella L, McLeod DR, Milford DV, Nobili F, Saraiva JM, Semerci CN, Shoemaker L, Stajić N, Stein A, Taha D, Wand D, Zonana J, Lücke T, Boerkoel CF. "Reduced Elastogenesis: A Clue to the Arteriosclerosis and Emphysematous Changes in Schimke Immuno-Osseous Dysplasia?" Orphanet J Rare Dis 7, (2012): 70.doi: 10.1186/1750-1172-7-70.
4.*Chowning S, Stowell D, Ponniah U,"Carotid-Subclavian Bypass for Subclavian Steal Syndrome Following Coarctation Repair in Infancy." Ann Pediatr Cardiol 5, no. 2 (2012): 207-9. doi: 10.4103/0974-2069.99631.
Submitted for publication.
- Morris BT, Tran HH, Peyton M, Sperrazza CS, Ponniah U, Ramji F, Parham D, Shah AM “Left Atrial Appendage Aneurysm and Sudden Cardiac Arrest in a 12 Year Old Male”. Texas Heart Journal.
In preparation:
1.Right aortic arch with long segment coarctation, right sided PDA, isolation of the left innominate artery from the main pulmonary artery through a left sided PDA, crossed pulmonary arteries and VSD: Cardiac MRI findings and complete surgical correction in a neonate with Di George syndrome.
Umakumaran Ponniah M.D and Joseph Forbess M.D
2.Carson R, Ponniah U, Makil E, Niu M. Recurrent multiple episodes of Kawasaki with atypical manifestation presenting as deep neck involvement in a older child with giant coronary artery aneurysms
Abstracts & Posters
Refereed, Published
- Ahles LN, Xu W, Shen B, Ponniah U, Wierenga K. Elastin Gene (ELN) Mutations Causing Isolated Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. J Genet Counsel (2012) 21:884–984 DOI 10.1007/s10897-01295346
- Sadler JM, Brown JL, Ponniah U, Legako E, Gillaspy SR, Weedn AE. The Oklahoma Chapter AAP Obesity Toolkit: A practical guide to assess and manage pediatric obesity. J Investig Med. 2012;60(1):415.
- Ponniah U, Ward K, Paliotta M, Sperrazza CS, Baker S, Shah A, Overholt E. Oklahoma University Health Science Center, Oklahoma. Unusual clinical manifestations and complications of Cardiomyopathy in children. Journal of Investigative Medicine, February, 2010,Vol 58; no2.
- Ponniah U, Smith FC, Atallah-Yunes N, Kavey RE, Byrum CJ, Kveselis, DA, Gaum WE. SUNY-Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY. Delayed diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease in the Gamma Globulin Era- How Often and Why? Are the criteria too strict? Journal of American College of cardiology 39, No 5 (supplement A), March 6, 2002.
- Ponniah U, Maiyya PP, Vishwanath D: Asphyxiating Thoracic Dystrophy, Indian Pediatrics. 32(3): 357-9, 1995 March.
- Ponniah U, Srinivas TP, Vishwanath D, and Maiyya PP: Epidermal nevus syndrome, Indian Pediatrics. 32(3): 343-5, 1995 March.
- Ponniah U, Maiyya PP, Vishwanath D, Hegde S, Srinivas TP, Shivaprasad, Shantala CC, Naveen B, Hegde RK: Mechanical ventilation of newborns- experience from a level II NICU. Indian Pediatrics. 32(12.0): 1275-80, 1995.
Abstract publications:
- Vogelius E, Ponniah U, Lam CZ, Masand P, Bisset III G,
Krishnamurthy R. The eye sees only what the mind knows. Accuracy of abdominal ultrasound in the evaluation of visceral and vascular manifestations of heterotaxy when compared to MRI/CT: a practice quality improvement study. Society of Pediatric Radiology, Annual meeting and postgraduate course, May 14-18. 2013,Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa, San Antonio, Texas.
2. Lam CZ, Ponniah U, Masand P, Maskatia S, Morris S, Krishnamurthy R. Systemic and pulmonary venous connections in heterotaxy syndrome: A review of 50 cases comparing MRI/CTA and echocardiography. Society of Pediatric Radiology, Annual meeting and postgraduate course, May 14-18. 2013, Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa, San Antonio, Texas.
Non-refereed Published Abstracts
1. Ponniah U MD. Sudden cardiac death in infant with Kawasaki disease and giant coronary aneurysms. Pediatric Research day, Oklahoma University Health Science Center, May 2011
2. *Chowning S, Stowell D and Ponniah U, Subclavian Steal syndrome in a young man following coarctation repair in infancy. Pediatric Research day, Oklahoma University Health Science Center, May 2011
3. *Singh N and Ponniah U, Rare cases of Amplatzer device embolization to the left ventricular out flow tract. Pediatric Research day, Oklahoma University Health Science Center, May 2011
4. *Chowning S and Ponniah U, Neonate with large intracardiac rhabdomyomas resulting in persistent arrhythmias. Pediatric Research day, Oklahoma University Health Science Center, May 2011
5. *Singh N, Ponniah U, Chronic Atrial Flutter associated with a large Secundum ASD in a young child. Pediatric Research day, Oklahoma University Health Science Center, April 2010
6. *Sheikh M, Ponniah U, Acquired pulmonary vein stenosis in a patient with Trisomy 21 and severe pulmonary hypertension. Pediatric Research day, Oklahoma University Health Science Center, April 2010
7. *Nagarathinam R, Ponniah U, Pirumyan G, Gillies E, Noori S, Aranson W Neonatal Biventricular non - compaction associated with hydrops fetalis- clinical, echocardiography and unusual autopsy findings. Pediatric Research day, Oklahoma University Health Science Center, April 2011.
8. Ponniah U, Ward KE, Baker S, Sperrazza CS, and Overholt E, Causes and course of thrombus in the left ventricle. Pediatric Research Day, May 14, 2009 at Oklahoma University Health Science Center.
9. Ponniah U, Ward KE, Baker S, Sperrazza CS, Shah A, and Overholt E. Unusual manifestation and complications of cardiomyopathy in children. Pediatric Research Day, May 14, 2009, at Oklahoma University Health Science Center.
10. Ponniah U, Smith FC, Atallah-Yunes N et al: Delayed diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease in the Gamma Globulin Era- How often and why? Fifteenth annual Charles R.Ross Research Poster Session, Syracuse, NY, December 2001
Oral presentation:
The Oklahoma Chapter AAP Obesity Tool Kit: A practical guide to assess and manage pediatric obesity: Sadler JM, Brown J, Ponniah U, Switzer E, Legako E, Gillaspy S, and Weedn A. Presented Journal of American College of cardiology American Pediatric Association, Southern Section American Federation Medical Research, Southern Society of Clinical Investigation, Southern Society of General Internal Medicine, and Southern Society of Pediatric Research.
Posters presented:
1. Khawar M, Ponniah U amd DeLeon . Unexplained asymptomatic hypoxemia: persistence pays off. Presented at the 2015 Southern regional meeting, under the auspices of American Pediatric Association, Southern Section American Federation Medical Research, Southern Society of Clinical Investigation, Southern Society of General Internal Medicine, Southern Society of Pediatric Research. February 2015, New Orleans
2. Ponniah U, et al. Unusual clinical manifestations and complications of Cardiomyopathy in children. Presented at the 2010 Southern regional meeting, under the auspices of American Pediatric Association, Southern Section American Federation Medical Research, Southern Society of Clinical Investigation, Southern Society of General Internal Medicine, Southern Society of Pediatric Research.
3. Ponniah U, et al. Delayed diagnosis of Kawasaki disease in the gamma globulin era. Are the criteria too strict? American College of Cardiology annual scientific meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 6, 2002. Abstract in Journal of American College of Cardiology
4. Ponniah U, et al. What factors predict intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm babies? Australian and New Zealand Perinatal Society, Adelaide, 1996.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Activity # | Year(s) Taught | Course number or teaching/seminar session title | Your Role: Instructor/co-instructor, course coordinator, etc. | Total teaching hours/yr for this activity | Type of learner | Number of learners/year for each activity** |
1 | 2005 to current | Topics covered: 1. Acyanotic CHD 2. Cyanotic CHD. 3. Surgical repair and complication 4. EKG interpretation 5. Arrhythmia interpretation and management 6.Heart murmurs | Instructor | Approximately 150 to 200 hours /year In-patient didactic lectures twice a week in the cardiology conference room and additional bedside teaching rounds | Pediatric residents Family practice residents Med-pediatrics residents Medical students NICU fellows | 5-10 |
2 | 2005 to current | Echocardiogram interpretation | Instructor | 2 days a week while covering the echo lab, approximately around 100-150 hours a year | Pediatric residents Med–ped residents Fellows from: a. Neonatology b. Adult Cardiology c. Pediatric Anesthesiology f | 1-2 |
3 | 2005 to current | Clinical instruction; diagnosis, cardiovascular examination and addressing various topics in pediatric cardiology | Instructor | ½ -1 day clinic at Children’s and one full day a week clinic at Mercy hospital | Medical students Nurse practitioners Physician assistants Pediatric residents Med-ped residents Fellows Occasionally high school and college students shadowing at Mercy | 1-2 |
4 | 2009 | Surgical repair and common postoperative complications | Instructor | 1 hour lecture | Pediatric residents | 20-30 learners/year |
5 | 2010 | VSD and PA band | Instructor | I hour lecture | Pediatric residents | 20-30 learners/year |
6 | 2010 | Acyanotic Congenital Heart Disease | Instructor | 1 hour lecture | Pediatric residents | 20-30 learners/year |
7 | 2010 | History and physical examination | Instructor | 1 hour lecture | Pediatric residents | 20-30 learners/year |
8 | 2010-11 | Rheumatic fever and Kawasaki disease | Instructor | 1hour lecture | Pediatric residents | 20-30 learners/year |
9 | 2010 and 2011 | EKG interpretation | Instructor | 1 hour lecture | Pediatric residents | 20-30 learners/year |
10 | 2012 | Hypertension and its management in childhood obesity | Instructor | 1 hour lecture | Pediatric residents | 20-30 learners/year |
11 | 2013 | CHD | Instructor | I hour lecture | Pediatric residents | 20-30 learners/year |
12 | 2015 | Imaging in CHD | Instructor | 1 hour lecture | Pediatric Radiology residents | 20-30 learners/year |
(1986-2005)
11 | 2002-2005 | History and physical examination | Instructor | 1 hour lecture | Medical students and family practice residents | 10-20 learners/year | SUNY Upstate Medical University , Binghampton campus |
12 | 1998-2001 | Several topics in Pediatric Cardiology | Fellow | 1hour didactic talks | Pediatric Cardiology faculty Pediatric cardiology fellows | 6 to 10 learners/year | SUNY Upstate Medical University , Syracuse |
13 | 1993-1995 | Several topics in general pediatrics | Lecturer | 1 hour lecture | Pediatric residents Medical students | 75 to 100 learners/year | MS Ramaiah Medical C, Bangalore , India |
13 | 1990-1992 | Topics in general pediatrics | Post graduate trainee | bedside teaching | Medical students and junior pediatric residents | 10-20 learners/year | Institute of Child health, Chennai, India |
14 | 1986- 1988 | Topics in general pediatrics | Post graduate trainee | bedside teaching | Medical students | 10-20 learners/year | Children’s hospital, Mysore, India |
MENTORING
Name of mentee or advisee | Period of mentoring/advising | Their role/position when you were their mentor/advisor | Mentoring Topic | Their current position | Mentee achievements* |
Scot Chowning | 2010-2012 | Faculty during his pediatric residency at OU Children’s | Write case reports for the pediatric research day and for the Annals of Pediatric Cardiology Some career advising | First year fellow in pediatric cardiology at Texas Children’s hospital | Successfully published a case report “Carotid-Subclavian Bypass for Subclavian Steal Syndrome Following Coarctation Repair in Infancy’ in the Annals of Pediatric Cardiology and he got admission into a prestigious pediatric cardiology fellowship program |
Nisha Singh | 2011-2012 | Faculty during her pediatric residency at OU Children’s | Write case reports for pediatric research day and for the and Indian pace and electrophysiology journal | General pediatrician, OU Tulsa campus | Plans to pursue a pediatric cardiology fellowship |
Mehwish Sheikh | 2010 | Faculty during her pediatric residency at OU children’s | Write a case report for pediatric research day | General pediatrician, Georgia | |
Rajeswari Nagarathinam | 2010 | Faculty during her pathology residency at OU | Write a case reports for pediatric research day | Graduated from residency | Clinical instructor, OU |
CAREER ADVISING
Monica Reddy, MSIV since 2012, she wants to pursue a med-pediatrics residency and take up a fellowship in pediatric cardiology
Contributions to Continuing Education
Title | Date | Location | Audience |
Coordinator (monthly education sessions and journal club) | 2006 to date | Pediatric Cardiology Conference room | Faculty Nurses Sonographers Pediatric residents |
“Weight of the nation”, panel member | Oct 8, 2012 | Samis Education Center, Children’s hospital, Oklahoma City | Faculty Nurses Residents Primary care providers |
Delayed complications and management of common complex congenital heart diseases in adults’ ( invited grand rounds by adult cardiology division, OU) | Feb17th,2012, | The Lawson center, The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. | Adult cardiologists Adult cardiology fellows Residents |
‘ Hypertension and its management in childhood Oklahoma state chapter of the American state conference on childhood obesity and its complications | July 2011 | Samis Education Center, Children’s hospital, Oklahoma City | Faculty Pediatric residents Mid level providers |
“Preventive Pediatric Cardiology: Obesity and Childhood onset adult cardiovascular diseases”,14th Annual Primary care conference. | May 2011 | Meridian Convention Center, Oklahoma City | Faculty Pediatricians Family practice physicians Internists |
“Matters of the heart sudden, rare and baffling” (Invited grand rounds, Department of Pediatrics) | June 2009 | Children’s hospital, OUMC | Faculty Pediatric residents Medical students Mid level provider |
“Cardiac Disease Prevention in Pediatrics’ invited lecture by The Oklahoma chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners | April 2009 | The Reed Conference center Midwest City | Nurse practitioners |
“Obesity and Childhood Onset Adult Cardiovascular Diseases” invited lecture. | Aug 2008 | Norman Regional Hospital, Norman, Oklahoma | Pediatricians Neonatologists Mid level providers |
‘ ‘The New Global Epidemic- Childhood Onset Adult Cardiovascular Diseases’ Invited grand rounds, Department of Pediatrics | Dec 2006 | Children’s hospital, Oklahoma City | Faculty Pediatric residents Mid level providers |
‘ . ‘Coronary artery disease in Asian Indians’ Ok Oklahoma Malayalee Association | March 2009 | Hotel Gopuram, Oklahoma City | General audience |
‘Kaw ‘Kawasaki Disease”, invited grand rounds, | 2004 | SUNY Binghampton campus | Faculty Medical students Family practice residents |
‘Str Sttro ‘ Strokes in children and a rare case of Cece cerebellar stroke due to Protein S and Protein C deficiency’ , grand rounds | 1997 | The Milton Hershey Medical Center, PA | Faculty Pediatric residents |
‘Str’ ‘Heart disease from the fetus to the adult-a a perspective’ 2013 2013p Annual Pediatric Conference: Paving the Way in Pediatrics Sttro | April 5, 2013 | Samis Education Center Children’s hospital | Physicians Pediatric residents Mid level providers Pharmacists Pscyhologists Echo sonographers |
‘Str“ ‘Pediatric Preventive Cardiology” | May 14, 2013, | Meridian Convention Center, Oklahoma City | Faculty Pediatricians Family practice physicians Internists |
WeII Invited lecture/Webinar on Pediatric Obesity- Comorbidities- Hypertension | July 14th, 2015 | OUHSC, media services | Invited by the Oklahoma State Medical Association, Oklahoma State Department of Health and Oklahoma Pediatric Wellness center |
WeII Invited lecture/Webinar on Pediatric Obesity- Comorbidities- Dyslipidemia | Nov 10th, 2015 | OUHSC , media services | Invited by the Oklahoma State Medical Association, Oklahoma State Department of Health and Oklahoma Pediatric Wellness center |
International
‘Obesity and other cardiovascular risk factors in children’ Invited lecture by the pediatric cardiology and adult cardiology division, Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences chil | June 2008 | Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences, Calicut, India, | Pediatricians Adult cardiologists Pediatric cardiologists |
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Clinical/Patient Care
| Type of service | Date | Location | Hours/days | Patients |
1 | Outpatient clinics | 2005 to date | OU Children’s | ½ day / week | 8 patients (new and old) |
2 | Outpatient clinics | 2005 to date | Mercy hospital | 1 day/week | 16-18 patients (new and old) |
2 | Outpatient clinics- outreach | 2006 to date | Ardmore | 4 hours once in 2 months | 12 patients (new and old) |
3 | In-patient service | 2005 to day | OU Children’s hospital, and occasionally at Presby | On call 24/7 for a week, once in four weeks | Around 10 patients including active consults in the NICU and PICU and the general pediatric floor |
4 | Echocardiography lab | 2005 to date | OU Children’s | 2 days /week | Read 40-45 studies a week |
5 | Transesophageal echocardiograms | 2006 to date | OU Children’s in the OR and the catheterization lab | 1-2 days a week | 4-5 studies a month |
6 | Sedated echocardiogram | 2005 to date | OU Children’s | 1-2/month | 1-2/studies a month |
7 | Echocardiogram | 2006 to date | Outside echoes from other hospitals (Mercy, Norman hospitals etc) | 1-2 hours /month | 2 studies/month |
8 | Fetal echocardiogram and fetal consults | 2005 to date | Presby and OU Physician Building, OU children’s clinic and occasionally at Mercy hospital | 2-3 hours a month | 2 -4consults a month |
8 | EKG interpretation | 2005 to date | OU Children’s hospital, Mercy and outside EKGs from other hospitals | 2-3 hours a month | 80 to 100 EKGs a month |
9 | Treadmill exercise testing | 2006 to date | OU Children’s hospital | ½ to 1 hour | 2-3 a month |
10 | Cardiac MRI | Since 10/ 2012 to date | OU Children’s hospital | 1 day a week | 6 studies a month |
11 | 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure monitors interpretation | Since 11/2012 | OU Children’s hospital | 1-2 hours a month | 2 studies a month |
12 | Cardiac catheterization conference | Since 2005 to date | OU Children’s hospital | 2 ½ to 3 hours a week | 10-15 cardiac cases discussed |
13 | Perinatal high risk conference | 2011 to date | Lawson center | 1 hour once a month | 2-3 cardiac cases discussed |
B. Clinical Leadership
- Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Program at Children’s hospital
Co-Medical Director of Non invasive imaging, Children’s hospital.
Developed and implemented a state of the art pediatric cardiac MRI program, the only one in the state to be attached to a Children’s hospital. This has greatly enhanced our diagnostic capabilities and has helped in the management of patients with complex congenital heart diseases.
- Member :The Healthy futures clinic a multi- disciplinary pediatric prevention clinic dealing with childhood obesity and its related complications. Future plan to use carotid IMT and other vascular measures to assess vascular reactivity in the high-risk pediatric population.
C. Committee Service
1. Member, Oklahoma American Academy of Pediatrics, Obesity committee and coauthor of the Obesity tool kit (2010 to date)
2. Member, multidisciplinary pediatric prevention clinic since 2011
3. Member, medical records committee, OUCP since 2009
D. Educational Administration
Coordinator, monthly education sessions, Division of Pediatric
Cardiology, 2006 to current
E. Community service/media appearances:
- Participated in several events to raise money for the ‘swine week’, Edmond memorial high school that resulted in a large donation to the Oklahoma heart center and the Children’s hospital foundation.
- Media appearance: Interview on a 4 year old child with complex cyanotic congenital heart disease and stroke like symptoms, Dec 02, 2011 News 9
- Media appearance : Interview on Valentine day celebrations, children with heart disease, diagnosis and management, February 14, 2009
4. Media appearance: Interview on childhood obesity, American heart
association, Channel 9, April 2007
HONORS AND AWARDS
- OU Medicine award for outstanding patient service 2014-2015
- Tamil Nadu State award (under the auspices of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics) for the best research paper titled Viral markers in Non-A and Non-B Hepatitis. This award was selected among many competitors based on the quality of research and oral presentation. 1992
MEMBERSHIPS
- The Society of Cardiovascular Imaging since 2011
- North American Society of Cardiovascular imaging since 2011
3. The American Society of Echocardiography July 2006 to date
4. Council on Pediatric and Congenital heart disease, the American
Society of echocardiography. Jan 2010 to date
5. The Society of Pediatric Echocardiography, December 16, 2010 to
date
6. The American Heart Association
7. The Indian Academy of Pediatrics, since 1993
8. Diplomat of National Board, the National Board of Examinations, New
Delhi, Since 1993
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
| Activity | Date | Location | | Course details |
1 | 3 D echo | 4/25/15 | Fort Myers , Florida | | TTE and TEE , Philips training course |
2 | Pediatric Cardiovascular MR | 10/23/12 to 10/28/12 | Children’s Hospital & Research Center, Oakland, California | 10th Society of Pediatric Radiology symposium | Basic and advanced course |
3 | Vascular structure and Functional Assessment | April 05 -6,2012 | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center | Preventive Cardiology, Dr Urbina | Two day hands course on “Carotid Medial thickness assessment, brachial reactivity assessment and pulse wave velocity” |
4 | Pediatric Cardiovascular MRI (observer) | 11/1/11 to 11/7/11 | 1.Nationwide Children’s hospital Ohio, 2.Cincinnati Children’s hospital 3. Ohio Medical Center | | |
5 | Pediatric Cardiovascular MR (trainee) | 6/01/11 to 8/30/2011. | Texas Children’s Hospital | Department of pediatric radiology | Performed and interpreted around 150 cases; included post processing and 3 D reconstruction |
6 | 3D echocardiography | April 2010 and May2015 | Atlanta Florida | | Hands on workshop |
7 | The Standard of Care | 2009 2010 2012 | Legal Medicine Curriculum | | Online course |
8 | Human Subject Protection in Research | 2007 2012 | OU Children’s hospital | | Online course |
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
- Annual Scientific Sessions, the American Society of Echocardiography Boston June 2015
- Advanced cardiac MRI course, Toronto, Oakland and Chicago, 2013, 2014 and 2015
- Annual Scientific Sessions, American Society of Echocardiography, Portand ( 2014),
- Annual Scientific Sessions, American Society of Echocardiography, Seattle 2013
- 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for European Paediatric and
Congenital Cardiology, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012
6. Northern American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging , Annual
meeting, Baltimore, sep 2011
7.Annual Scientific sessions, The American Heart Association, Chicago, Nov 2010.
8. Southern regional meeting, under the auspices of American Pediatric
Association, Southern Section American Federation Medical Research, Southern Society of Clinical Investigation, Southern Society of General Internal Medicine, Southern Society of Pediatric Research, February 2010.
9. Annual Scientific sessions, The American Heart Association, Orlando,
Nov 2009
10. Annual Update on Pediatric Cardiovascular Disease, Feb 6-10, 2008
Scottsdale, AZ
11. 18th Annual American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions,
Seattle, Washington, June 16-2, 2007
12. 56th Annual Scientific Sessions, the American College of Cardiology,
March 24-27, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana
13. The American College of Cardiology, Annual Scientific Sessions,
Atlanta, March 2006
14. Pediatric Cardiology Board Review Course, University Of Chicago,
Chicago, July 2004
15. 14th Annual American Society of Echocardiography Scientific
Sessions, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 16-2-, 2003
16. American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions. Chicago,
IL. Minnesota, March 2003
17. Attended a satellite symposium in “Advances in Fetal and Perinatal
Cardiology”, the 3rd World Congress of Pediatric
18. 3rd World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery,
Toronto, Canada, 2001
19. Echocardiography in Pediatric and Adult Heart Disease, Oct 1998,
Rochester, MN
20. International Pediatric Update, Bangalore, India 1997
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