Shalini Ramachandran, MD
- Neonatologist, Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages spoken: English
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Biography
Shalini Ramachandran, M.D., specializes in neonatal-perinatal medicine at Children's Health℠ and an Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Ramachandran earned her medical degree at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal in Karnataka, India. She completed a pediatrics residency at the University of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, where she also received advanced training through a fellowship in pediatric neonatal-perinatal medicine.
When she’s not at work, Dr. Ramachandran’s interests include spending time with family, traveling with family both domestically and internationally, reading, and watching TV shows with her husband.
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 Medicine
- American Board of Pediatrics
Conditions Treated
- Anencephaly
- Anorectal malformation (imperforate anus or ARM)
- Bladder exstrophy
- Bladder outlet obstruction
- Bowel atresia
- Brachydactyly (symbrachydactyly)
- Cloacal exstrophy
- Colon atresia
- Congenital arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
- Congenital heart disease
- Congenital infections
- Congenital lung lesions
- Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM)
- Cystic fibrosis (CF) in children
- Down syndrome in children
- Encephalocele in children
- Esophageal atresia (EA)
- Gastroschisis
- Goldenhar syndrome (oculo-auriculo-vertebral dysplasia or OAV)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Hydrops
- Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (intrapartum asphyxia - HIE)
- Isolated craniosynostosis
- Jejunal and ileal atresia
- Low birth weight
- Meconium aspiration in newborns
- Muscular dystrophy (MD) in children
- Neonatal diabetes
- Newborn tumors
- Noonan syndrome (NS)
- Omphalocele
- Open neural tube defects (ONTDs)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
- Pediatric abdominal masses
- Pediatric achondroplasia (dwarfism)
- Pediatric ambiguous genitalia
- Pediatric biliary atresia
- Pediatric chronic lung disease (CLD)
- Pediatric craniosynostosis
- Pediatric cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- Pediatric duodenal atresia
- Pediatric edema
- Pediatric Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS or elastic skin)
- Pediatric encephalopathy (encephalitis)
- Pediatric enteroviruses
- Pediatric feeding disorder (PFD)
- Pediatric first unprovoked seizure
- Pediatric gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Pediatric head and neck lumps
- Pediatric hemophilia
- Pediatric high blood pressure (hypertension)
- Pediatric hydrocephalus
- Pediatric hydronephrosis
- Pediatric hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice)
- Pediatric hypotonia (floppy muscle syndrome)
- Pediatric intestinal disorders
- Pediatric intraventricular hemorrhage and stroke
- Pediatric laryngomalacia
- Pediatric lordosis (sway back)
- Pediatric Low Blood Pressure (Hypotension)
- Pediatric mediastinal mass
- Pediatric metabolic diseases
- Pediatric necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Pediatric patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- Pediatric persistent pulmonary hypertension
- Pediatric pleural effusion
- Pediatric pyloric stenosis
- Pediatric respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
- Pediatric rubella (German measles)
- Pediatric short bowel syndrome (SBS)
- Pediatric syphilis
- Pediatric toxoplasmosis
- Pierre Robin syndrome (PRS)
- Poland syndrome (Poland sequence)
- Prematurity
- Prenatal drug and alcohol exposure
- Pulmonary sequestration
- Renal malformation
- Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
- Sepsis and meningitis in children
- Skeletal dysplasias and abnormalities
- Spina bifida
- Syndromic craniosynostosis
- Tay-Sachs disease
- VATER syndrome (VACTERL association)
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