Kriti Puri, MBBS
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Kriti Puri, MBBS
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
- Internship
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Pediatric
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio United States
Pediatric Residency Program
- Residency
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Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio United States
Pediatric Residency Program
- Fellowship
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Pediatric Cardiology
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas United States
Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program
- Fellowship
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Pediatric Critical Care
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas United States
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
Addresses
- Texas Children's Hospital (Hospital)
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6651 Main Street
Legacy Tower
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Education
- MBBS from All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- 12/2010 - New Delhi, India
- Residency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- 06/2015 - Cincinnati, United States
- Pediatrics
- Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine
- 06/2018 - Houston, United States
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, United States
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Certifications
- American Board of Pediatrics
- USMLE
Honors & Awards
- Moderator
- Back to School Guidance for Children with Cardiac Conditions
- Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics (08/2020)
- Speaker
- Iron Deficiency in Pediatric Heart Failure – Beyond the Blood
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Heart Institute Grand Rounds (11/2019)
- Heart Center Innovation Grant (5000$)
- Iron Deficiency in infants with CHD undergoing Cardiac Surgery
- Texas Children’s Hospital (01/2019)
- Heart Center Innovation Grant (5000$)
- Comparison of IV and Oral Iron Replacement in Pediatric Heart Failure Patients
- Texas Children’s Hospital (12/2019)
- Best Poster Award
- Pediatric Heart Failure Summit (05/2016)
- National Cultural Talent Search Scholarship
- Centre for Cultural Research and Training, Government of India
- Speaker
- Baylor Pediatric Student Association/Texas Children's Hospital: Subspecialty Roundtable
- 10/2020
- Panelist
- Respite Rounds: Who Determines Quality of Life? - Challenges with Navigating Desires of Parents and Medical Teams
- Baylor College of Medicine (02/2021)
- J. Timothy Bricker Citizenship Award
- 2018
- Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital
Professional Interests
- Cardiac Critical Care
- Mechanical Circulatory Support
- Heart Failure
- Congenital Heart Disease
Websites
Puri K, Kailin JA. Module in the online echocardiogram teaching program (Pediatric Echocardiography)
Selected Publications
- Puri K, Price JF, Spinner JA, Powers JM, Denfield SW, Cabrera AG, Tunuguntla HP, Dreyer WJ, Shah MD "Iron Deficiency Is Associated with Adverse Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Failure.." 2020/January;:
- Morray BH, Dimas VV, McElhinney DB, Puri K, Qureshi AM "Patient size parameters to guide use of the Impella device in pediatric patients." 2019/October1;:
- Puri K, Anders MM, Tume SC, Cabrera AG, Heinle JS, Causey JC, Wang Y, Moffett BS, Shekerdemian LS "Characteristics and Outcomes of Pediatric Patients supported with Ventricular Assist Device – A Multi-institutional Analysis." 2019/August20;:
- Puri K*, Choudhry S*, Denfield SW "An Update on Pediatric Cardiomyopathy." 2019/June25;:
- Puri K, Malek J, de la Uz CM, Lantos J, Cabrera AG, Fruge ED. "Ethics Rounds: The Risks of Allowing Adolescents to Weigh Benefits and Burdens of High-Stakes Therapies." 2019 July 14; : Pubmed PMID: 20183714
- 6. Puri K, Singh H, Denfield SW, Cabrera AG, Dreyer WJ, Price JF "Missed Diagnosis of New-Onset Systolic Heart Failure at First Presentation in Children with No Known Heart Disease." 2019 May ; :
- Pookamala S, Thakar A, Puri K, Singh P, Kumar R, Sharma SC "Acquired subglottic stenosis: aetiological profile and treatment results.." 2014 July ; :
- Bhatla N, Puri K, Kriplani A, Iyer VK, Mathur SR, Kalaivani M., Pandey RM. "Adjunctive testing for cervical cancer screening in low resource settings." 2012 April ; :
- Puri K, Taft D, Schibler K, Newburg D, Yu Z, Ward D, Morrow A, Kallapur S "Association Of Chorioamnionitis With Aberrant Neonatal Gut Colonization And Adverse Clinical Outcomes." 2016 September 22; :
- Puri K, Kreppel AJ, Schlaudecker EP "Bartonella Osteomyelitis of the Acetabulum: Case Report and Review of the Literature.." 2015 August 15; :
- Puri K, Kocoshis S, Risma K, Perez L, Hart C, Chin C, Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Schumacher KR, Castleberry C "Basiliximab treatment for autoimmune bowel disease in a pediatric heart transplant patient.." 2015 November 19; :
- Puri K, Morris SA, Mery CM, Wang Y, Moffett BS, Heinle JS, Rodriguez JR, Shekerdemian LS, Cabrera AG "Characteristics & Outcomes of Children with Ductal-Dependent Congenital Heart Disease and Esophageal Atresia/Tracheoesophageal Fistula: A Multi-Institutional Analysis." 2018 April ; :
- Seth R, Das RR, Puri K, Singh P "Clinical Profile and Chemotherapy Response in Children with Hodgkin Lymphoma at a Tertiary Care Centre." 2015 November 9; :
- Puri K, Allen HD, Qureshi, AM "Congenital Heart Disease." 2017 October ; :
- Bhatla N, Puri K, Joseph E, Kriplani A, Iyer VK, Sreenivas V "Correlation of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and Chlamydia trachomatis infection with Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia." 2013 March ; :
- Puri K, Singh P, Das RR, Seth R, Gupta R "Diagnostic Dilemma of JMML Coexisting with CMV Infection." 2011 April ; :
- Puri K, Sapra S, Jain V "Emotional, behavioral and cognitive profile, and quality of life of Indian children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes." 2013 November 17; :
- Sinha A, Puri K, Hari P, Dinda AK, Bagga A. "Etiology and Outcome of Crescentic Glomerulonephritis." 2013 March ; :
- Puri K, Warshak CR, Habli MA, Yuan A, Sahay RD, King EC, Divanovic A, Cnota JF "Fetal Somatic Growth Trajectory Differs by Type of Congenital Heart Disease.." 2018 March ; :
- Puri K, Schlaudecker EP, Newman NC "Index of suspicion." 2014 November ; :
- Puri K, Kazembe P, Mkaliainga T, Chiume M, Cabrera AG, Sims Sanyahumbi A "Pattern of inpatient pediatric cardiology consultations in sub-Saharan Africa.." 2018 March 13; :
- 7. Puri K, Jeewa A, Adachi I, Denfield SW, Cabrera AG, Price JF, Humlicek TJ, Burki S, Dreyer WJ, Shah MD "Prevalence of Anemia and Iron Deficiency in Pediatric Patients on Ventricular Assist Devices." 2018 November ; :
- Rohit MK, Puri K, Vadivelu R. "Reversible complete atrioventricular block after percutaneous ASD device closure in a child <15 kg.." 2014 May ; :
- Bakhshi S, Das P, Puri K, Singhal M, Ramam M, Sharma A, Iyer VK, Gupta SD "Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma: A clinicopathologic study of 5 cases.." 2011 April ; :
- Seth R, Puri K, Singh P, Selvam P, Kumar R "The role of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computerized tomography in resolving therapeutic dilemmas in pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma." 2012 July 27; :
- Olsen, J, Puri K. "Interpretation of Oxygen Saturation in Cogenital Heart Disease: Fact and Fallacy." :
- Puri K, Tunuguntla HP, Hensch LA, Loh J, Hui SK, Razavi A, Tume SC, Humlicek TJ, Denfield SW, Spinner JA, Choudhry S, Price JF, Dreyer WJ, Adachi I, Teruya J. "Bivalirudin or Unfractionated Heparin for Anticoagulation in Pediatric Patients on Continuous Flow Ventricular Assist Device Support: Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.." 2022 June 10; : Pubmed PMID: 35687091
- Bensman RS, Berrens Z, Mkaliainga T, Banda B, Puri K, Sanyahumbi A, Byczkowski T, Eckerle M. "Prevalence of Cadiac Dysfunction in Malawian Children with Severe Febrile Illness." 2022 May 11; : Pubmed PMID: 35543397
- Puri K, Denfield SW, Adachi I, Dreyer WJ, Price JF, Spinner JA, Choudhry S, Brackett J, Santucci G, Rainusso NC, Tunuguntla HP. "Ventricular assist device support for children with chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy and advanced heart failure: Perspectives gained from a single-center experience." 2022 April 26; : Pubmed PMID: 35474630
- Pande CK, Noll L, Afonso N, Serrano F, Monteiro S, Guffey D, Puri K, Achuff BJ, Akcan-Arikan A, Shekerdemian L. "Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Infants with Cardiac Surgery Associated Acute Kidney Injury.." 2022 March 25; : Pubmed PMID: 35346625
- Puri K, Adachi I, Bocchini CE, Spinner JA, Denfield SW, Sisley S, Elias BA, Jimenez-Gomez A, Price JF, Dreyer WJ, Choudhry S, Tunuguntla HP "Trends in Body Mass Index and Association with Outcomes in Pediatric Patients on Continuous Flow Ventricular Assist Device Support.." 2021 December 28; : Pubmed PMID: 34967787
- Day P, Hope K, Puri K, Spinner J, Choudhry S, Tunuguntla H, Price J, Dreyer W, Denfield S. "Outcomes following the use of pediatric and young adult donor hears with bicuspid aortic valves: A single-center case series.." 2021 December 17; : Pubmed PMID: 34921483
- Puri K, Adachi I. "Left Heart Decompression on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support and Cardiopulmonary Bypass.." 2021 October 18; :
- Puri K, Spinner JA, Powers JM, Denfield SW, Tunuguntla HP, Choudhry S, Dreyer WJ, Price JF "Poor efficacy of oral iron replacement therapy in pediatric patients with heart failure.." 2021 October 11; :
- Puri K, Schweiger M, Rossano JW. "The fate of the failing Fontan circulation-No two are alike.." 2021 September 8; :
- Tunuguntla, HP, Puri K, Denfield SW "Management of Advanced Heart Failure in Children with Cancer Therapy-Related Cardiac Dysfunction." 2021 September 30; :
- Puri K, Adachi I "Mechanical Support for the Failing Single Ventricle at Pre-Fontan Stage: Current State of the Field and Future Directions." 2021 :
- Afonso NS, Ninemire MR, Gowda SH, Jump JL, Lantin-Hermoso RL, Johnson KE, Puri K, Hope KD, Kritz E, Achuff BJ, Gurganious L, Bhat PN. "Redefining the Relationship: Palliative Care in Critical Perinatal and Neonatal Cardiac Patients." 2021 June 25; :
- Hope KD, Bhat PN, Dreyer WJ, Elias BA, Jump JL, Santucci G, Afonso NA, Ninemire MR, Achuff BJ, Kritz EM, Gowda SH, Puri K. "Pediatric Palliative Care in the Heart Failure, Ventricular Assist Device and Transplant Populations: Supporting Patients, Families and Their Clinical Teams." 2021 June 2; :
- Puri K, First LR, Kemper AR. "Trends in Gender Distribution Among Authors of Research Studies in Pediatrics: 2015-2019." 2021 March 23; : Pubmed PMID: 33757997
- Spinner JA, Denfield SW, Puri K, Morris SA, Costello JM, Moffett BS, Wang Y, Shekerdemian LS, Tunuguntla HP, Price JF, Heinle JS, Adachi I, Dreyer WJ, Cabrera AG "Hospital outcomes for pediatric heart transplant recipients undergoing tracheostomy: A multi-institutional analysis." 2020 November 11; :
- Webb M, Puri K, Ansah DA "Promoting Psychological Safety in Pediatric Cardiology." 2021 September 14; :
- Puri K, Condurache T. "Pediatric Global Health Objectives Adapted for Learning Stateside - Cardiology Section." 2020 September ; :
- Puri K, Adler AC "Tetralogy of Fallot (Chapter in Case Studies in Pediatric Anesthesia)." 2020 January ; (ISBN: 9781108465519):
- Puri K, Zachariah JP, Elsevier "Physician Examination: Heritable Cardiovascular Syndromes (Chapter in the Encyclopedia of Cardiovascular Research and Medicine)." 2017 December ; (ISBN: 9780128096574):
Memberships
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Fellow (01/2012)
- American College of Cardiology
- Fellow (07/2015)
- International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation
- Member (01/2013)
- American Heart Association
- Member (01/2019)
- Transfusion Committee, Texas Children’s Hospital
- Member (01/2019)
Funding
- Scholar Award
- $75,000.00 Pediatric Heart Network
- Pediatric Heart Network Scholar Award - $75,000 (2022)
- Resident Research Grant
- $2,000.00 Grant funding from Cincinnati Children's Hospital
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Resident Research Grant ($2000) - 2010 "Association of Chorioamnionitis with Neonatal Gut Colonization and Clinical Outcomes"
- Resident Research Grant Award
- $2,000.00 Grant funding from American Academy of Pediatrics
- AAP Resident Research Grant Award (2000$) - 2013
Languages
Hindi
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