Harita Liter, M.D. Titles and Appointments Clinical 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 Dr. Harita Katragadda is a Clinical Instructor in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine. She is a graduate of Saint Louis University School of Medicine and completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at UT Southwestern. She is passionate about medical education, along with COVID-19 and the related Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). She has contributed to the management of the Sick Isolation Unit, as well as the creation and development of a multidisciplinary protocol used to diagnose and treat MIS-C. Her research interests focus on pediatric manifestations of COVID-19 and MIS-C. Education Medical School Saint Louis University School of Medicine (2016) Internship University of Texas at Southwestern (2017) Residency UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center (2019), Pediatrics Fellowship UT Southwestern Medical Center (2023), Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine Publications Trends in resource utilization for new-onset psychosis hospitalizations at children's hospitals Gupta A, Hall M, Masserano B, Wilson A, Johnson K, Chen C, Challa L, Katragadda H, Mittal V Journal of hospital medicine 2025 Jul 20 710-726 Hospital costs and reimbursement for short-stay inpatient versus observation status hospitalizations for children with medical complexity Arar S, Hall M, Johnson K, Katragadda H, Martinez K, Dadwani A, Chen CN, Devarakonda A, Gribbons M, Challa L, Gupta AT, Patel A, Solomon C, Nunneley CE, Lee BC, Yu AG Journal of hospital medicine 2024 Nov 19 1010-1018 Impact of anakinra use on clinical outcomes in children with moderate or severe multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: a propensity score matched retrospective cohort study Akkoyun EB, Most Z, Katragadda H, Yu A, Nassi L, Oakman N, Ginsburg S, Maamari M Pediatric Rheumatology 2023 Dec 21 Epidemiology and Severity of Illness of MIS-C and Kawasaki Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic Molloy MJ, Auger KA, Hall M, Shah SS, Schondelmeyer AC, Parikh K, Kazmier KM, Katragadda H, Jacob SA, Jerardi KE, Ivancie R, Hartley D, Bryan MA, Bhumbra S, Arnold SD, Brady PW Pediatrics 2023 Nov 152 Identifying and Validating Pediatric Hospitalizations for MIS-C Through Administrative Data Auger KA, Hall M, Arnold SD, Bhumbra S, Bryan MA, Hartley D, Ivancie R, Katragadda H, Kazmier K, Jacob SA, Jerardi KE, Molloy MJ, Parikh K, Schondelmeyer AC, Shah SS, Brady PW Pediatrics 2023 May 151 Results 1-5 of 5 1 Professional Associations/Affiliations American Academy of Pediatrics (2015) American Medical Association (2019)
