Veena Rajaram, MD
Pathologist
Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Biography
Before joining Children's Health℠, Dr. Veena Rajaram spent eight years as a Professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and worked as a staff pathologist at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital (Children’s Memorial Hospital) in Chicago, practicing pediatric and neuropathology with a primary focus on pediatric neuropathology.
Dr. Rajaram’s research interests include malformations of the central nervous system and embryonal and pediatric brain tumors. She has given numerous presentations and contributed to more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and scores of abstracts in her areas of expertise.
When she’s not at work, Dr. Rajaram enjoys reading books of all kinds, watching movies, traveling, and playing the veena, a string instrument that originated in India.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College (1987)
- Internship
- Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College (1988), Rotating
- Residency
- Washington University (2000), Pathology
Winthrop University Hospital (1998), Pathology - Fellowship
- Washington University (2004), Pathology
Washington University School of Medicine (2002), Pediatric Pathology
Washington University (2001), Pathology - Board Certification
- American Board of Pathology/Anatomic Pathology
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Embryonal and pediatric brain tumors
- Malformations of the central nervous system
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Publications
Publications
- MLL4 Is Required to Maintain Broad H3K4me3 Peaks and Super-Enhancers at Tumor Suppressor Genes. Dhar SS, Zhao D, Lin T, Gu B, Pal K, Wu SJ, Alam H, Lv J, Yun K, Gopalakrishnan V, Flores ER, Northcott PA, Rajaram V, Li W, Shilatifard A, Sillitoe RV, Chen K, Lee MG Mol. Cell 2018 Jun 70 5 825-841.e6
- Pan-Trk Immunohistochemistry Identifies NTRK rearrangements in Pediatric Mesenchymal Tumors. Rudzinski ER, Lockwood CM, Stohr BA, Vargas SO, Sheridan R, Black JO, Rajaram V, Laetsch TW, Davis JL Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 2018 Apr
- Adult Brainstem Gliomas With H3K27M Mutation: Radiology, Pathology, and Prognosis. Daoud EV, Rajaram V, Cai C, Oberle RJ, Martin GR, Raisanen JM, White CL, Foong C, Mickey BE, Pan E, Hatanpaa KJ J. Neuropathol. Exp. Neurol. 2018 Feb
- Basal Suppression of the Sonic Hedgehog Pathway by the G-Protein-Coupled Receptor Gpr161 Restricts Medulloblastoma Pathogenesis. Shimada IS, Hwang SH, Somatilaka BN, Wang X, Skowron P, Kim J, Kim M, Shelton JM, Rajaram V, Xuan Z, Taylor MD, Mukhopadhyay S Cell Rep 2018 Jan 22 5 1169-1184
- REST upregulates gremlin to modulate diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma vasculature. Shaik S, Kennis B, Maegawa S, Schadler K, Yanwen Y, Callegari K, Lulla RR, Goldman S, Nazarian J, Rajaram V, Fangusaro J, Gopalakrishnan V Oncotarget 2018 Jan 9 4 5233-5250
- Persistence of parenchymal and perivascular T-cells in treatment-refractory anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis. Filatenkov A, Richardson TE, Daoud E, Johnson-Welch SF, Ramirez DM, Torrealba J, Greenberg B, Monson NL, Rajaram V Neuroreport 2017 Sep 28 14 890-895
- Targeted MAPK Pathway Inhibitors in Patients With Disseminated Pilocytic Astrocytomas. Drobysheva A, Klesse LJ, Bowers DC, Rajaram V, Rakheja D, Timmons CF, Wang J, Koral K, Gargan L, Ramos E, Park JY Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2017 Aug 15 8 978-982
- Cytopathology of the central nervous system in Diagnostic Pediatric Cytopathology and Histopathologic Correlation. Rajaram V (2016), Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press
- Brain and Spinal cord in Color Atlas of Fetal and Neonatal Histology. Rajaram V (2011), New York, Springer
Books
- Cytopathology of the central nervous system. In Diagnostic Pediatric Cytopathology and Histopathologic Correlation. Rajaram V (2016). Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press
- Brain and Spinal cord. In Color Atlas of Fetal and Neonatal Histology. Rajaram V (2011). New York, Springer
- Neuropathologic and Neuroradiologic correlations. A differential diagnostic text and atlas. Veena Rajaram (2017). Cambridge University Press
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Professional Activities
- American Association of Neuropathologists (2003)
- American Society for Clinical Pathology (1997-2005)
- Children's Oncology Group (2008)
- College of American Pathology (1997)
- Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (2006-2012)
- Society for Pediatric Pathology (2002)
- United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (1999)
