Asya Asghar, MD
- Neonatologist, Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages spoken: English
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Biography
Asya Asghar, M.D. is a pediatric neonatologist at Children's Health and a Clinical Associate Professor at UT Southwestern.
Dr. Asghar earned her medical degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. She completed her internship and pediatric residency at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where she was chief resident. She then obtained her training in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Yale University.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Alabama School of Medicine (2008)
- Residency
- Virginia Commonwealth University (2011), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Yale New Haven Hospital Pediatrics GME (2015), Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics-Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- American Board of Pediatrics
Conditions Treated
- Pediatric lordosis (swayback)
- Anencephaly
- Anorectal malformation (imperforate anus or ARM)
- Bladder exstrophy
- Bladder outlet obstruction
- Bowel atresia
- Brachydactyly (symbrachydactyly)
- Cloacal exstrophy
- Colon atresia
- Congenital arteriovenous malformations
- 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
- Pediatric duodenal atresia
- Pediatric edema
- Pediatric Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS or elastic skin)
- Pediatric encephalopathy (encephalitis)
- Pediatric enteroviruses
- Pediatric feeding disorder
- Pediatric first unprovoked seizure
- Pediatric gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Pediatric head and neck lumps
- Pediatric hemophilia
- Pediatric high blood pressure (hypertension)
- Pediatric hydrocephalus
- Pediatric hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice)
- Pediatric hypotonia
- Pediatric intestinal disorders
- Pediatric intraventricular hemorrhage and stroke
- Pediatric laryngomalacia
- 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
- Pediatric syphilis
- Pediatric toxoplasmosis
- Pierre Robin syndrome
- 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
- Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF)
- VATER syndrome (VACTERL association)
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