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Smitha Vidi, M.D.

Smitha Vidi, M.D.

Assistant Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Pediatrics

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  • 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

    Star Featured Publications

    Role of hypertension in progression of chronic kidney disease in children.
    Vidi SR Curr. Opin. Pediatr. 2018 Apr 30 2 247-251
    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 J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 2010 Aug 95 8 3993-4002
  • Books

    Featured 

    Featured 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

    Featured 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.

    Featured 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
    • Fellow’s Presentation Award
      American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (2014)
    • International Award for Excellence in Published Clinical Research
      The 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