Muraleedharan Sivarajan, MD
Pediatrician Newborn Medicine
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English,
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Trivandrum Medical College (1989)
- Internship
- Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center (2002), Pediatrics
- Residency
- Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center (2004), Pediatrics
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics
Conditions
- Abdominal Masses
- Achondroplasia (Dwarfism)
- Ambiguous Genitalia
- Anencephaly
- Anorectal Malformation (Imperforate Anus)
- Arteriovenous Malformations (AVMs)
- Biliary Atresia
- Bladder Exstrophy
- Bladder Outlet Obstruction
- Bowel Atresia
- Brachydactyly (Symbrachydactyly)
- Chronic Lung Disease (CLD)
- 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 Atresia
- Edema
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Elastic Skin)
- Encephalocele
- Encephalopathy (Encephalitis)
- Enteroviruses
- Esophageal Atresia
- First Unprovoked Seizure
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Gastroschisis
- Goldenhar Syndrome (Oculo-Auriculo-Vertebral Dysplasia (OAV))
- Head and Neck Lumps
- Hemophilia
- High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
- Hirschsprung's Disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hydrops
- Hyperbilirubinemia (Jaundice)
- Hypotonia (Floppy Muscle Syndrome)
- Hypoxic-ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) (Intrapartum Asphyxia)
- Intestinal Disorders
- Intraventricular Hemorrhage and Stroke
- Isolated Craniosynostosis
- Jejunal and Ileal Atresia
- Laryngomalacia
- Lordosis
- Low Birth Weight
- Low Blood Pressure (Hypotension)
- Meconium Aspiration
- Mediastinal Masses
- Metabolic Disease
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)
- Neonatal Diabetes
- Newborn Tumors
- Noonan Syndrome
- Omphalocele
- Open Neural Tube Defects (ONTDs)
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD)
- Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pierre Robin
- Pleural Effusions
- Poland Syndrome (Poland Sequence)
- Prematurity
- Prenatal Drug Exposure
- Pulmonary Sequestration
- Pyloric Stenosis
- Renal Malformation
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS)
- Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)
- Rubella (German measles)
- Sepsis/Meningitis
- Short Bowel Syndrome (Short Gut)
- Skeletal Dysplasias and Abnormalities
- Spina Bifida (Myelomeningocele)
- Syndromic Craniosynostosis
- Syphilis
- Tay-Sachs
- Toxoplasmosis
- Tracheoesophageal Fistula
- VATER Syndrome (VACTERL Association)
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Chorioamnionitis prophylaxis in the newborn , research interest.
- Fetal program point person for the newborn nursery.
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Publications
- Structural Development of Human Fetal and Preterm Brain Cortical Plate Based on Population-Averaged Templates. Yu Q, Ouyang A, Chalak L, Jeon T, Chia J, Mishra V, Sivarajan M, Jackson G, Rollins N, Liu S, Huang H Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2015 Sep
- Structural development of human brain white matter from mid-fetal to perinatal stage. Ouyang A, Yu Q, Mishra V, Chalak L, Jeon T, Sivarajan M, Jackson G, Rollins N, Liu S, Huang H Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering 2015 Feb 9417
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- Indian Academy of Pediatrics
- Royal College of Physicians, Ireland
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Awards and Honors
- Americas top Pediatricians listing - Consumer Research Council of America (2011)
- Americas Top Pediatricians Listing - Consumer Research Council of America (2010)
- International Association of Pediatricians Listing - Top Physicians of the World group (2010)
- Best Speaker award/First place - Karve Kuttan National Medical Symposium, India (1986)
- Distinction in Science 96 % - Pre-Degree (1980)