Devika Rao, M.D.

Associate Professor

Schools: Medical School
Departments: Pediatrics

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Education

Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine (2006)
Residency: Emory University School of Medicine/Grady Memorial Hospital (2009), Pediatrics
Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital (2012), Pediatric Pulmonology

Publications

Treatment of Nicotine Use in Adolescents Under 18 Years of Age An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline: Author Collaboration AT, Bauer SE, Macrea M, Casey A, Dagli E, Eakin MN, Farber HJ, Gonzalez P, Hayes D, Hu SW, Kathuria H, Knight SL, Moraes TJ, Neptune ER, Piper ME, Skeen EH, Ueng CS, Upson D, Walley SC, Rao DR, Bauer SE, Rao DR, Casey A, Dagli E, Eakin MN, Farber HJ, Gonzalez P, Hayes D, Hu SW, Kathuria H, Knight SL, Macrea M, Moraes TJ, Neptune ER, Skeen EH, Ueng CS, Upson D, Walley SC American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2025 Sep 211 1584-1599
Psychosocial stressors of adolescents with E-cigarette, or vaping, product-use associated lung injury: A qualitative study: Lee H, Harrell MB, Rao DR Addictive Behaviors 2024 Nov 158
A 12-year-old girl with primary ciliary dyskinesia and CFTR-related disorder treated with elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor: Osei-Kuffuor E, Rao DR, Rivera Sanchez YM Pediatric pulmonology 2024 Oct 59 2658-2660
E-cigarettes and asthma in adolescents: Afolabi F, Rao DR Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2023 Apr 23 137-143
Neighborhood Characteristics and the Burden of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury: An Ecological Comparison Study: Lee H, Weerakoon SM, Harrell MB, Messiah SE, Rao DR Pediatric, Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology 2023 Mar 36 16-22
Clinical manifestations of EVALI in adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Abdallah B, Lee H, Weerakoon SM, Messiah SE, Harrell MB, Rao DR Pediatric pulmonology 2023 Mar 58 949-958
Effects of the electronic health record on job satisfaction of academic pediatric faculty: Kissel AM, Maddox K, Francis JK, Diaz MI, Sanghavi R, Rao D, Menzies C, Lehmann CU International Journal of Medical Informatics 2022 Dec 168
Advocacy considerations for the pediatric pulmonologist in the era of the covid-19 pandemic: Rao DR, Kopp B, Kamerman-Kretzmer RJ, Afolabi F, Liptzin DR, Balasubramaniam V, Sadreameli SC Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2021 Jun 18 942-945
Ethnic disparities in the e-cigarette use epidemic and childhood asthma in the US: Xie L, Rao DR, Harrell MB, Vidot DC, Gelfand A, Sterling K, Messiah SE Pediatric pulmonology 2020 Oct 55 2498-2500
E-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) features and recognition in the emergency department: Aldy K, Cao DJ, Weaver MM, Rao D, Feng SY JACEP Open 2020 Oct 1 1090-1096

Honors & Awards

Travel Award
American Thoracic Society's Fellows Track Symposium (2011)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine (2010-2014)
American College of Chest Physicians (2011)
American Medical Association (2009-2014)
American Thoracic Society (2009)