Email

turaga@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Pediatrics-Critical Care
Baylor College of Medicine

Education

MD-PhD from Washington University School of Medicine

05/2012 - St. Louis

Residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital

06/2015 - St. Louis

Pediatrics

Fellowship at University of California San Francisco

06/2018 - San Francisco

Pediatric Cardiology

Fellowship at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

06/2019 - Pittsburgh

Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care

Professional Statement

I am a physician-scientist with clinical training in pediatric cardiac critical care and research training in stem-cell biology and microscopy. My career objective is to bring cardiac regenerative medicine therapies to the bedside.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Turaga D, Matthys OB, Hookway TA, Joy DA, Calvert M, McDevitt T. "Single cell determination of cardiac microtissue structure and function using light sheet microscopy.." Tissue Eng Part C Methods.. 2020 Feb;In Press. Pubmed PMID: 32111148
• Hammen GF, Turaga D, Holy TE and Meeks JP "Functional glomerular maps of the accessory olfactory bulb reveal a regionally homophylic, locally heterophylic organization." Nature Neuroscience. 2014;17(7):953. Pubmed PMID: 24880215
• Turaga D and Holy TE "Organization of vomeronasal sensory coding revealed by fast volumetric calcium imaging." Journal of Neuroscience. 2012;32:1612. Pubmed PMID: 22302803
• Holekamp TF, Turaga D and Holy TE "Fast three-dimensional fluorescence imaging of activity in neural populations by objective-coupled planar illumination microscopy." Neuron. 2008;57:661. Pubmed PMID: 18341987