Abhay Divekar, M.D. Titles and Appointments Professor School Medical School Department Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Abhay Divekar, M.D., is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. His research focuses on developing clinically relevant animal models. Dr. Divekar earned his medical degree from Bombay University in India. He performed his residency in pediatrics at The Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York and then completed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at New York University Medical Center and an advanced fellowship in interventional catheterization and cardiac critical care at CS Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2021. He has presented and published extensively, including contributing to the books Catheter-Based Valve and Aortic Surgery and Indian Academy of Pediatrics Specialty Series on Pediatric Cardiology. Dr. Divekar is a Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, for whom he serves as Co-Chair of the fall Fellows Course. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the Pediatric and Congenital Interventional Cardiovascular Society, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Education Medical School Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, India (1992) Residency Seth gs Medical College, India (1995) Residency Brooklyn Hospital Center (1997), Pediatrics Fellowship New York University Medicine Center (2000), Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship C.S. Mott Children's Hospital (2001), Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Fellowship C.S. Mott Children's Hospital (2001), Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Publications Featured Publications Presumptive Neonatal Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019. Divekar AA, Patamasucon P, Benjamin JS, Am J Perinatol 2021 05 38 6 632-636 Neonatal repair of persistent fifth aortic arch and aortic coarctation. Divekar AA, Sebastian VA, JTCVS Tech 2020 Dec 4 245-246 Variation in the outer diameter of vascular sheaths commonly used in infant cardiac catheterization. Mathis C, Romans R, Divekar A, Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2020 09 96 3 620-625 Sedation in the Pediatric and Congenital Catheterization Laboratory: Is it Time We Wake Them Up? Jayaram N, Kaine S, Divekar AA, JACC Cardiovasc Interv 2019 05 12 9 844-846 Novel direct approach for placement of permanent transvenous pacing leads after Fontan procedure. Randall JT, Aldoss OT, Law IH, Divekar AA, Ann Pediatr Cardiol 2018 May-Aug 11 2 187-190 Modified Stumper technique for acute postoperative bifurcation stenosis causing right ventricular failure after Ross procedure. Divekar AA, Ann Pediatr Cardiol 2016 Sep-Dec 9 3 248-50 Modified Technique to Create Diabolo Stent Configuration. Aldoss O, Divekar A, Pediatr Cardiol 2016 Apr 37 4 728-33 CRISP: Catheterization RISk score for Pediatrics: A Report from the Congenital Cardiac Interventional Study Consortium (CCISC). Nykanen DG, Forbes TJ, Du W, Divekar AA, Reeves JH, Hagler DJ, Fagan TE, Pedra CA, Fleming GA, Khan DM, Javois AJ, Gruenstein DH, Qureshi SA, Moore PM, Wax DH, Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2016 Feb 87 2 302-9 Native atrial septal restriction after Fontan palliation successfully treated with transcatheter Diabolo stent. Aldoss O, Reinking BE, Divekar A, Ann Pediatr Cardiol 2016 Jan-Apr 9 1 49-52 The lateral plane delivers higher dose than the frontal plane in biplane cardiac catheterization systems. Aldoss O, Patel S, Harris K, Divekar A, Pediatr Cardiol 2015 Jun 36 5 912-7 Results 1-10 of 44 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last
