Smitha Vidi, M.D. Titles and Appointments Assistant Professor Schools Medical School Departments Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Smitha Vidi is a pediatric nephrologist at UTSW/ Children’s Medical Center who specializes in the management of kidney diseases in children. After graduating from Madras Medical College in India, she did pediatric training in the United Kingdom prior to moving to the United States. Dr. Vidi was a research fellow in pediatric nephrology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston where she also completed her pediatric residency training. She did her fellowship in pediatric nephrology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She worked as an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, NY after completing her fellowship and prior to joining the Children’s Medical Center at Dallas. Dr. Vidi received the international award for excellence in published clinical research in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in 2010 and also won the fellow’s presentation award by the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology and research poster day award at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2014. She manages and treats patients with hypertension, chronic kidney diseases, patients on hemodialysis & peritoneal dialysis and renal transplant recipients. Her clinical interests are hypertension, glomerulonephritis and nephrotic syndrome. Education Medical School Madras Medical College, the Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University - India (2002) Residency Royal College of Pediatrics & Child Health, UK (2006), Pediatrics Residency Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital (2011), Pediatrics Fellowship University of Pennsylvania/The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2014), Pediatric Nephrology Publications Papers presented at the fall 2020 Pediatric Urologic Oncology Work Group of the Societies of Pediatric Urology meetingNeonatal Serum Electrolyte and Proteinuria Screening on 46,XY Ambiguous Genitalia Patients May Allow Early Diagnosis of Denys-Drash Syndrome: A Case Report Edwards A, Passoni NM, Collins R, Vidi S, Gattineni J, Baker LA Urology 2021 Jul 153 312-316 Renal auto transplantation for renovascular hypertension associated with bifurcated renal artery stenosis in a pediatric patient Okumura K, Vidi SR, Desai DM Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports 2019 Mar 42 42-44 Role of hypertension in progression of chronic kidney disease in children Vidi SR Current opinion in pediatrics 2018 Apr 30 247-251 Secondary forms of hypertension in children: Overview Sharma S, Meyers KE, Vidi SR 2018 Jan 431-449 Secondary forms of hypertension in children and adolescents Vidi SR, Meyers KE 2013 Jan 309-321 Deletion of the noncoding GNAS antisense transcript causes pseudohypoparathyroidism type Ib and biparental defects of GNAS methylation in cis Chillambhi S, Turan S, Hwang DY, Chen HC, Jüppner H, Bastepe M Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2010 Aug 95 3993-4002 Results 1-6 of 6 1 Books Featured Books Pediatric Hypertension. In Pediatric Hypertension, 4th ed, Flynn JT, Ingelfinger JR, Redwine KM, eds. Sharma S, Meyers KE, Vidi SR (2018). Heidelberg, Germany, Springer International Publishing; 431-449 Secondary Forms of Hypertension in Children and Adolescents. In Flynn JT, Ingelfinger JR, Portman RJ, eds. Pediatric Hypertension. 3rd ed. Vidi SR, Meyers KEC. (2013). New York: Springer; 309-322. Rheumatology. In Prasad P, ed. Pocket Pediatrics: The Massachusetts General Hospital for Children Handbook of Pediatrics. 1st ed. Griffin A, Palakshappa D, Aftandilian C, Vyas KB, Chillambhi S, Rothermel H. (2010). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Honors & Awards Fellows Presentation AwardAmerican Society of Pediatric Nephrology (2014) International Award for Excellence in Published Clinical ResearchThe Endocrine Society and Pfizer, Inc. (2011) American Society of Pediatric Nephrology Resident Travel Grant (2010) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Academy of Pediatrics American Society of Nephrology American Society of Pediatric Nephrology National Kidney Foundation
