Muraleedharan Sivarajan, MD
- Pediatrician - Newborn Medicine, Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages spoken: English
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Biography
Muraleedharan Sivarajan, M.D., is a neonatologist at Children's Health℠ and an Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Sivarajan earned his medical degree at Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India. He completed a residency in pediatrics at the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in New York. He completed other postgraduate training in pediatrics at several medical colleges in India. He also trained as a pediatric hospitalist and a neonatologist and worked at a number of hospitals within the British medical postgraduate training system.
When he’s not at work, Dr. Sivarajan enjoys traveling, gardening, cooking, reading, listening to music, practicing holistic and alternative medicine, volunteering, meditating, and studying theology.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Trivandrum Medical College (1989)
- Graduate and Post-Graduate Education
- Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (1995)
- GSVM Medical College University of Kanpur (1990)
- Internship
- Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center (2002), Pediatrics
- Residency
- Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center (2004), Pediatrics
- 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)
- 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 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 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
- Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF)
- VATER syndrome (VACTERL association)
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