Sujir Pritha Suresh Nayak, MD
Neonatologist
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Dr D.Y. Patil Medical College (2004)
- Residency
- State University of New York at Buffalo (2010), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Women & Infants Hospital RI (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
- Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF)
- VATER syndrome (VACTERL association)
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Intestinal failure
- Neonatal nutrition
- Short gut syndrome
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Publications
- Strain-induced differentiation of fetal type II epithelial cells is mediated via the integrin a6ß1-ADAM17/tumor necrosis factor-a-converting enzyme (TACE) signaling pathway., Wang Y, Huang Z, Nayak PS, Matthews BD, Warburton D, Shi W, Sanchez-Esteban J J. Biol. Chem. 2013 Aug 288 35 25646-57
- Stretch-induced fetal type II cell differentiation is mediated via ErbB1-ErbB4 interactions., Huang Z, Wang Y, Nayak PS, Dammann CE, Sanchez-Esteban J J. Biol. Chem. 2012 May 287 22 18091-102
- An experimental system to study mechanotransduction in fetal lung cells., Wang Y, Huang Z, Nayak PS, Sanchez-Esteban J J Vis Exp 2012 60
- Methemoglobin to cumulative nitric oxide ratio and response to inhaled nitric oxide in PPHN., Pabalan MJ, Nayak SP, Ryan RM, Kumar VH, Lakshminrusimha S J Perinatol 2009 Oct 29 10 698-701
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Pediatrics (2007)
- Indian Academy of Pediatrics (2003)
- Society of Pediatric Research (2012)
- Texas Medical Society (2015)
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Awards and Honors
- Mentor Award - Frisco ISD - Texas (2018)
- Travel Award - Society for Pediatric Research (2013)
- Travel Award - Eastern Society for Perinatal Medicine (2009, 2011, 2013)
