Gnana “Dheepa” Ardhanari, MD
- Assistant Professor, Cardiac Critical Care
- Children's Heart Institute
Biography
Gnana Dheepa Ardhanari, MD, is an assistant professor in the Children’s Heart Institute, Division of Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Medicine. She completed her medical school training at Stanley Medical College, Chennai, India, and completed her pediatric residency training at the Maimonides Infant and Children’s Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. She subsequently went on to complete subspecialty fellowship training in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Holtz Children’s Hospital at the University of Miami and fourth year of fellowship training in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.
Education
- Doctor of Medicine
- Stanley Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Pediatric Residency
- Maimonides Infant and Children’s Hospital in Brooklyn, NY
- Fellowship
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Holtz Children's Hospital
- Fellowship
- Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Medicine, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Areas of Interest
Clinical Interests
- Extracorporeal life support
- Cardiopulmonary bypass
- Thromboembolism
- Sepsis
- MODS
- Shock
- Single ventricle physiology
- Congenital heart disease
- Heart failure
- Neurodevelopmental outcomes
Certifications
American Board of Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics – Critical Care Medicine