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Abhay Divekar, M.D.

Abhay Divekar, M.D.

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Professor

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Pediatrics

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  • 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 Education
    Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, India (1992), Bachelor of Medicine/Surgery
    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 Critical Care
    Fellowship
    C.S. Mott Children's Hospital (2001), Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization
  • Publications
    A Comparison of the Burden of Postoperative Recovery Between Complex Biventricular Repair and Fontan Operations
    Juarez CM, Islam IS, Kenny MD, Lemler MS, Patrick JM, Reyes KM, Divekar A, Jaquiss RD, Davies RR, Andersen ND Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2026 Nov 122 1281-1288
    Left Ventricular Structural, Physiological, and Transcriptomic Abnormalities in a Novel Porcine Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Model
    Green EM, Rio Cd, Shibbani K, Meyerholz DK, Gorham J, Kim S, DeLaughter DM, Henze MP, Rogers CS, Gifford LM, Kafa M, Rohret F, Goeken JA, McLendon JM, Boudreau RL, Seidman CE, Sieren JC, Weiss RM, Seidman JG, Divekar A, Ahmad F JACC: Basic to Translational Science 2026 Nov 11
    The Importance of Hepatic Surveillance After Single-Ventricle Palliation: An Interventional Study Validating Liver Elastography
    Abadeer M, Greer JS, Reddy S, Divekar A, Schooler GR, Fares M, Dillenbeck J, Philip S, Zabala L, Sharma B, Hussain T Pediatric Cardiology 2026 Feb 47 858-868
    Safety and Effectiveness of the KA Micro Plug for Treatment of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Preterm Low-Birth-Weight Infants: Retrospective Analysis From a Multicenter Registry
    Guyon P, Gordon BM, Aldoss O, Mohammad Nijres B, Veeram Reddy SR, Divekar A, Forbes T, El-Said H Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions 2026
    Venous-Only Approach for Transcatheter Patent Ductus Arteriosus Closure in Infants: Is It Time for Change?
    Harinarayanan SC, Wu S, Arar Y, Zellers TM, Veeram Reddy SR, Divekar AA Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions 2025 Aug 4
    Acute Structural Valve Failure: Importance of Intracardiac Echocardiography During Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement
    Divekar A, Tan W Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions 2025 May 4
    Bringing PERT to Pediatrics: Initial Experience and Outcomes of a Pediatric Multidisciplinary Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT)
    Dang MP, Cheng A, Garcia J, Lee Y, Parikh M, McMichael AB, Han BL, Pimpalwar S, Rinzler ES, Hoffman OL, Baltagi SA, Bowens C, Divekar AA, Davis Volk AP, Huang CJ, Veeram Reddy SR, Arar Y, Zia A CHEST 2025 Mar 167 851-862
    The weeping graft: Severe fluid loss from a polytetrafluoroethylene graft in a patient with congenital cardiac disease with a single-ventricle assist device
    Wu SJ, Divekar A, Davies RR JTCVS Techniques 2025
    Enhancement of the lymphatic system following intravenous administration of ferumoxytol
    Young DF, Reddy SV, Divekar A, Vamsee R, Pimpalwar S, Hussain T, Greer JS Pediatric radiology 2024 Nov 54 2060-2067
    Bringing PERT to Pediatrics: Initial Experience and Outcomes of a Pediatric Multidisciplinary Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT)
    Dang MP, Cheng A, Garcia J, Lee Y, Parikh M, McMichael AB, Han BL, Pimpalwar S, Rinzler E, Hoffman O, Baltagi S, Bowens CD, Divekar A, Volk AP, Huang CJ, Veeram Reddy SR, Arar Y, Zia AN Chest 2024 Oct