Vishal S. Kapadia, MD
Neonatologist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- N.H.L. Municipal Medical College - India (2001)
- Residency
- University of Illinois at Chicago College of Med (2008), Pediatrics
Sheth Vadilal Sarabhai Municipal Hospital (2004), Pediatrics - Fellowship
- UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (2011), 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
- Use of oxygen during initial stabilization phase and during hospital stay in neonates
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Publications
- Initial oxygen concentration for term neonatal resuscitation. Isayama T, Dawson JA, Roehr CC, Rabi Y, Weiner GM, Aziz K, Kapadia VS, de Almeida MF, Trevisanuto D, Mildenhall L, Liley HG, Hosono S, Kim HS, Szyld E, Perlman JM, Velaphi S, Guinsburg R, Welsford M, Nishiyama C, Wyllie JP, Wyckoff MH ILCOR 2018 Nov
- The Goldilocks principle. Oxygen in the delivery room: When is it too little, too much, and just right? Kapadia V, Rabi Y, Oei JL, Semin Fetal Neonatal Med 2018 10 23 5 347-354
- Outcomes of oxygen saturation targeting during delivery room stabilisation of preterm infants. Oei JL, Finer NN, Saugstad OD, Wright IM, Rabi Y, Tarnow-Mordi W, Rich W, Kapadia V, Rook D, Smyth JP, Lui K, Vento M, Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2018 Sep 103 5 F446-F454
- Oxygen Therapy in the Delivery Room: What Is the Right Dose? Kapadia V, Wyckoff MH Clin Perinatol 2018 Jun 45 2 293-306
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Professional Activities
- AAP - Section of Perinatal Pediatrics, District VII (2009)
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) (2006)
- American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) (2005)
- Dallas County Medical Society/Texas Medical Association (2011)
- Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP)
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Awards and Honors
- Best Quality Improvement Project - EBM Research Fair at Children's Health (2017)
- Young Investigator Coaching Program Recipient - Society of Pediatric Research (2014)
- Travel Award - 23rd Annual NICHD Maternal-Fetal-Reproductive Medicine Meeting (2011)
- Pilot Award - North and Central Texas Clinical and Translational Science Initiative (2010)
- Young Investigator's Travel Award - Pediatric Academic Society (2010)
- NIH Pilot Grant Award - Clinical & Translational Science Award (2009)