Shalini Ramachandran, MD
Neonatologist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Kasturba Medical College (2005)
- Internship
- Christian Medical College, Vellore (2005), Pediatrics
- Residency
- University of Miami - Jackson Memorial Hospital (2010), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- University of Miami/Jackson Health System Program (2013), Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Neonatal-Perinatal
Conditions
- Abdominal masses
- Achondroplasia (dwarfism)
- Ambiguous genitalia
- Anencephaly
- Anorectal malformation (imperforate anus or ARM)
- Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
- Biliary atresia
- Bladder exstrophy
- Bladder outlet obstruction
- Bowel atresia
- Brachydactyly (symbrachydactyly)
- Chronic lung disease (CLD)
- Cloacal exstrophy
- Colon atresia
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
- Congenital heart disease
- Congenital infections
- Congenital lung lesions
- Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM)
- Craniosynostosis
- Cystic fibrosis (CF)
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- Down syndrome
- Duodenal aresia
- Edema
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS or elastic skin)
- Encephalocele
- Encephalopathy (encephalitis)
- Enteroviruses
- Esophageal atresia (EA)
- Feeding disorder (PFD)
- First unprovoked seizure
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Gastroschisis
- Goldenhar syndrome (oculo-auriculo-vertebral dysplasia or OAV)
- Head and neck lumps
- Hemophilia
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hydronephrosis
- Hydrops
- Hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice)
- Hypotonia (floppy muscle syndrome)
- Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (intrapartum asphyxia - HIE)
- Intestinal disorders
- Intraventricular hemorrhage and stroke
- Isolated craniosynostosis
- Jejunal and ileal atresia
- Laryngomalacia
- Lordosis (sway back)
- Low birth weight
- Low blood pressure (hypotension)
- Meconium aspiration
- Mediastinal mass
- Metabolic diseases
- Muscular dystrophy (MD)
- Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Neonatal diabetes
- Newborn tumors
- Noonan syndrome (NS)
- Omphalocele
- Open neural tube defects (ONTDs)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- Persistent pulmonary hypertension
- Pierre Robin syndrome (PRS)
- Pleural effusion
- Poland syndrome (Poland sequence)
- Prematurity
- Prenatal drug and alcohol exposure
- Pulmonary sequestration
- Pyloric stenosis
- Renal malformation
- Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
- Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
- Rubella (German measles)
- Sepsis and meningitis
- Short bowel syndrome (SBS)
- Skeletal dysplasias and abnormalities
- Spina bifida
- Syndromic craniosynostosis
- Syphilis
- Tay-Sachs
- Toxoplasmosis
- VATER syndrome (VACTERL association)
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Lung development
- Lung protective strategies
- Neonatal lung injury
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Publications
- CXCR4 Blockade Attenuates Hyperoxia-Induced Lung Injury in Neonatal Rats. Drummond S, Ramachandran S, Torres E, Huang J, Hehre D, Suguihara C, Young KC Neonatology 2015 Mar 107 4 304-311
- Stem cell factor improves lung recovery in rats following neonatal hyperoxia-induced lung injury. Miranda LF, Rodrigues CO, Ramachandran S, Torres E, Huang J, Klim J, Hehre D, McNiece I, Hare JM, Suguihara CY, Young KC Pediatric research 2013 Dec 74 6 682-8
- Bone Marrow-Derived c-kitPositive Cells Attenuate Neonatal Hyperoxia-Induced Lung Injury. Ramachandran S, Suguihara C, Drummond S, Chatzistergos K, Klim J, Torres E, Huang J, Hehre D, Rodrigues CO, McNiece IK, Hare JM, Young KC Cell transplantation 2013 May
- CXCR4 Blockade Attenuates Hyperoxia-Induced Lung Injury in Neonatal Rats. Drummond S, Ramachandran S, Torres E, Huang J, Hehre D, Suguihara C, Young KC Neonatology 2015 Mar 107 4 304-311
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Pediatrics (2007)
- American Medical Association (2007)
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Awards and Honors
- Award for Research Presentation (2012), District VIII AAP Annual Conference, Las Vegas
- PAS Travel Award (2012), Pediatric Academic Societies
- Travel Grant for the Neonatal-Perinatal Fellow Conference (2011), American Academy of Pediatrics
- Travel Grant for an Oral Presentation at the Southeastern Conference on Perinatal Research (2011-2012), Mead Johnson Nutrition for the American Academy of Pediatrics Perinatal Section