Venkatakrishna Kakkilaya, MD
- Neonatologist, Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages spoken: English
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Biography
Venkatakrishna Kakkilaya, M.D., is a neonatal-perinatal medicine physician and an Associate Professor at UT Southwestern.
Dr. Kakkilaya earned his medical degree at Karnatak University in India. He completed residency programs in pediatrics at Dr. V.M. Government Medical College in India and at LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport. He received advanced training in neonatal-perinatal medicine through a fellowship at LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport.
When he’s not at work, Dr. Kakkilaya enjoys Indian classical music and travel.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Karnatak University (1990)
- Residency
- Louisiana State University Medical Ctr-Shreveport (2007), Pediatrics
- VM Medical College, India (1993), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Louisiana State University Medical Ctr-Shreveport (2010), 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 hydronephrosis
- 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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