Venkatakrishna Kakkilaya, MD
Neonatologist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
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
Conditions
- Abdominal masses
- Achondroplasia (dwarfism)
- Ambiguous genitalia
- Anencephaly
- Anorectal malformation (imperforate anus or ARM)
- Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
- Biliary atresia
- Bladder exstrophy
- Bladder outlet obstruction
- Bowel atresia
- Brachydactyly (symbrachydactyly)
- Chronic lung disease (CLD)
- Cloacal exstrophy
- 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 aresia
- Edema
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS or elastic skin)
- Encephalocele
- Encephalopathy (encephalitis)
- Enteroviruses
- Esophageal atresia (EA)
- Feeding disorder (PFD)
- First unprovoked seizure
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Gastroschisis
- Goldenhar syndrome (oculo-auriculo-vertebral dysplasia or OAV)
- Head and neck lumps
- Hemophilia
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hydronephrosis
- Hydrops
- Hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice)
- Hypotonia (floppy muscle syndrome)
- Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (intrapartum asphyxia - HIE)
- Intestinal disorders
- Intraventricular hemorrhage and stroke
- Isolated craniosynostosis
- Jejunal and ileal atresia
- Laryngomalacia
- Lordosis (sway back)
- Low birth weight
- Low blood pressure (hypotension)
- Meconium aspiration
- Mediastinal mass
- Metabolic diseases
- Muscular dystrophy (MD)
- Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Neonatal diabetes
- Newborn tumors
- Noonan syndrome (NS)
- Omphalocele
- Open neural tube defects (ONTDs)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- Persistent pulmonary hypertension
- Pierre Robin syndrome (PRS)
- Pleural effusion
- Poland syndrome (Poland sequence)
- Prematurity
- Prenatal drug and alcohol exposure
- Pulmonary sequestration
- Pyloric stenosis
- Renal malformation
- Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
- Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
- Rubella (German measles)
- Sepsis and meningitis
- Short bowel syndrome (SBS)
- Skeletal dysplasias and abnormalities
- Spina bifida
- Syndromic craniosynostosis
- Syphilis
- Tay-Sachs
- Toxoplasmosis
- Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF)
- VATER syndrome (VACTERL association)
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Less invasive surfactant administration
- Nasal CPAP: Optimal delivery systems and weaning strategies in extremely low birth weight infants
- Neonatal abstinence syndrome
- New tools in improving informed decision making in the NICU
- Non invasive respiratory support in preterm infants
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Publications
- Evaluation of a respiratory care protocol including less invasive surfactant administration in preterm infants. Chan CS, Chiu M, Ariyapadi S, Brown LS, Burchfield P, Simcik V, Garcia K, Mazioniene K, Jaleel MA, Wyckoff MH, Kapadia VS, Kakkilaya V, Pediatr Res 2023 Dec
- Risk Factors for Admission Hyperthermia and Associated Outcomes in Preterm Infants. Chiu M, Mir I, Adhikari E, Heyne R, Ornelas N, Tolentino-Plata K, Thomas A, Burchfield P, Simcik V, Ramon E, Brown LS, Nelson DB, Wyckoff MH, Kakkilaya V, J Pediatr 2023 Nov 113842
- RDS-NExT workshop: consensus statements for the use of surfactant in preterm neonates with RDS 2023
- Should less invasive surfactant administration (LISA) become routine practice in US neonatal units? Kakkilaya V, Gautham KS, Pediatr Res 2022 Aug
- Decreasing delivery room CPAP-associated pneumothorax at =35-week gestational age. Stocks EF, Jaleel M, Smithhart W, Burchfield PJ, Thomas A, Mangona KLM, Kapadia V, Wyckoff M, Kakkilaya V, Brenan S, Brown LS, Clark C, Nelson DB, Brion LP, J Perinatol 2022 Feb
- Decreasing Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Failure in Preterm Infants. Kakkilaya VB, Weydig HM, Smithhart WE, Renfro SD, Garcia KM, Brown CM, He H, Wagner SA, Metoyer GC, Brown LS, Kapadia VS, Savani RC, Jaleel MA, Pediatrics 2021 Sep
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Professional Activities
- AAP, Section on Perinatal Medicine (2010)
- Fellow American Academy of Pediatrics (2007)
- Member of Royal College of Physicians (1997)
- Society of Pediatric Research (2022)
- Southern Society of Pediatric Research (2010)
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Awards and Honors
- John Haven Emerson Award (2019)
- Abbott Nutrition Award in Research - Young Investigator Award Finalist (2010)