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)
- 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 Atresia
- Edema
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)
- Encephalocele
- Encephalopathy (Encephalitis)
- Enteroviruses
- Esophageal Atresia
- Feeding Disorder (PFD)
- 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
- Hydronephrosis
- 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 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 (OI)
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- 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
- Skeletal Dysplasias and Abnormalities
- Spina Bifida (Myelomeningocele)
- Syndromic Craniosynostosis
- Syphilis
- Tay-Sachs
- Toxoplasmosis
- Tracheoesophageal Fistula
- VATER Syndrome (VACTERL Association)
- Very Low Birth Weight
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
- Oxygen Therapy in the Delivery Room: What Is the Right Dose? Kapadia V, Wyckoff MH Clinics in perinatology 2018 Jun 45 2 293-306
- The Goldilocks principle. Oxygen in the delivery room: When is it too little, too much, and just right? Kapadia V, Rabi Y, Oei JL, Seminars in fetal & neonatal medicine 2018 10 23 5 347-354
- 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 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation 2018 Nov
- 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, Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition 2018 Sep 103 5 F446-F454
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Professional Activities
- Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP)
- AAP - Section of Perinatal Pediatrics, District VII (2009)
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) (2006)
- Dallas County Medical Society/Texas Medical Association (2011)
- American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) (2005)
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Awards and Honors
- Travel Award 2011, 23rd Annual NICHD Maternal-Fetal-Reproductive Medicine Meeting
- Pilot Award 2010, North and Central Texas Clinical and Translational Science Initiative
- Young Investigator's Travel Award 2010, Pediatric Academic Society
- NIH Pilot Grant Award 2009, Clinical & Translational Science Award
- Young Investigator Coaching Program Recipient 2014, Society of Pediatric Research
- Best Quality Improvement Project 2017, EBM Research Fair at Childrens Health