Raysa
Middle Name
C.
Morales Demori, M.D, FAAP
Middle Name
C.
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Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Pediatrics-Critical Care
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
Addresses
- Texas Children's Hospital - Legacy Tower (Office)
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6651 Main Street
MCE 1420
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-6230
Fax: (832) 826-4252
Raysa.MoralesDemori@bcm.edu
- Texas Children's Hospital - Legacy Tower (Hospital)
-
6651 Main Street
MCE 1420
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-6230
Fax: (832) 826-4252
Raysa.MoralesDemori@bcm.edu
Education
- Clinical Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine
- 06/2017 - Houston, Texas United States
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Clinical Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine
- 06/2019 - Houston, Texas United States
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Residency at University of Illinois College of Medicine
- 06/2014 - Chicago, Illinois United States
- Pediatrics
- MD from Universidad Central de Venezuela
- 11/2008 - Caracas, Venezuela
- Postdoctoral Training at Baylor College of Medicine
- 02/2020 - Houston, Texas United States
- PFCCS Instructor Course
Certifications
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Medical license
- Texas Medical Board
- Pediatric Cardiology
- American Board of Pediatrics
- Critical Care
- American Board of Pediatrics
Honors & Awards
- Outstanding Senior Resident Award
- Children's Hospital of the University of Illinois at Chicago (01/2014)
- Outstanding Research in Residency Award
- Children's Hospital of the University of Illinois at Chicago (01/2014)
- Outstanding achievement in Student Teaching Morning Lecture Program Award
- Children's Hospital of the University of Illinois at Chicago (01/2013 - 01/2014)
Websites
Professional Development
- Outcomes comparison of patients with Scimitar Syndrome with and without pulmonary hypertension
- Conference (Presenter, 2022)
- Sponsor: International Society for Lung and Lung transplantation
- Outcomes of ECMO support in PH patient with COVID-19 infection: Multicenter experience
- Conference (Presenter, 2022)
- Sponsor: Pulmonary Hypertension Association
- Outcomes of Hospitalized Children with Turner Syndrome and Congenital Heart Disease
- Conference (Presenter, 2016)
- Sponsor: American Academy of Pediatrics
- Three Decade Period Review of Fitness Level Among Chicago Healthy Children
- Conference (Presenter, 2015)
- Sponsor: American Academy of Pediatrics
- Hemodynamic response to treadmill exercise test by ethnicity: The first report on Hispanic population
- Conference (Presenter, 2013)
- Sponsor: 74th National Congress of the Italian Society of Cardiology
- Attenuation of the Side Effect Profile of Regadenoson: Randomized Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Study with Aminophylline in Patients with Severe Chronic Kidney Disease Undergoing Myocardial Perfusion Imaging - TheASSUAGE-CKD Trial
- Conference (Presenter, 2012)
- Sponsor: American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
- Attenuation of The Side Effect Profile of Regadenoson: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study with Aminophylline in Patients Undergoing Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. “THE ASSUAGE TRIAL
- Conference (Presenter, 2011)
- Sponsor: American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
- Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma: About a case
- Conference (Presenter, 2006)
- Sponsor: XIII National Conference for Medical Students
- Outcomes of COVID-19 infection in pediatric patients with pulmonary hypertension: a single-center experience
- Conference (Presenter, 2021)
- Sponsor: Texas Medical Center Pulmonary Hypertension Consortium
- Echocardiogram in patients with pulmonary hypertension and COVID: Case review
- Conference (Presenter, 2020)
- Sponsor: Texas Children's Hospital
- Cardiac catheterization presentation of a case report
- Conference (Presenter, 2020)
- Sponsor: Mechanical support conference
- Cardiac catheterization interpretation
- Conference (Presenter, 2021)
- Sponsor: Texas Children's Hospital
- Core Physiology: Cardiac Catheterization
- Conference (Presenter, 2021)
- Sponsor: Texas Children's Hospital
- Epidemiology of Pediatric Heart Failure in the USA-a 15-Year Multi-Institutional Study
- Conference (Presenter, 2021)
- Sponsor: Texas Children’s Hospital
- Echocardiogram in patients with pulmonary hypertension in patient with pulmonary embolism: Case Review
- Conference (Presenter, 2020)
Selected Publications
- Morales-Demori, R "Congenital heart disease and cardiac procedural outcomes in patients with trisomy 21 and Turner syndrome." 2016/December12;: Pubmed PMID: 28736822
- Morales-Demori R, Montañes E, Erkonen G, Chance M, Anders M, Denfield S "Epidemiology of Pediatric Heart Failure in the USA-A 15-Year Multi-Institutional Study." 2021/April19;: Pubmed PMID: 33871685
- Flores S, Villarreal EG, Lee B, Morales-Demori R, Farias JS, Ahmed M, Loomba RS, Savorgnan F "Impact of surfactant when utilized during pediatric cardiac surgery admissions: analysis of a nationwide database." 2021/June17;: Pubmed PMID: 34139955
- Puri K, Morales-Demori R, Gorgis N, Bernardo E, Hipp D "Pediatric Critical Care Medicine- Intensive Training for intensive Care!." 2017/December27;:
- Coleman RD, Morales-Demori R, Coulson J, Romer LH. "Under Pressure - The Pulmonary Vasculature and its Role in the Pediatric CICU." 2021 June 21; : Pubmed PMID: 34153208
- Morales-Demori R, Jamil O, Serratto M "Trend of Endurance Level Among Healthy Inner-City Children and Adolescents Over Three Decades." 2017 January 1; : Pubmed PMID: 27826713
- Rangel, MO., Morales Demori, R., Voll, ST., Wassouf, M., Dick, R., Doukky, R "Severe chronic kidney disease as a predictor of benefit from aminophylline administration in patients undergoing regadenoson stress myocardial perfusion imaging: A substudy of the ASSUAGE and ASSUAGE-CKD trials." 2015 October 1; : Pubmed PMID: 25500799
- Ballany, W., Mansour, K., Morales Demori, R., Al-Amoodi, M., Doukky, R "The impact of regimented aminophylline use on extracardiac radioisotope activity in patients undergoing regadenoson stress SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: A substudy of the ASSUAGE trial." 2014 June ; : Pubmed PMID: 24519563
- Doukky, R., Rangel, MO., Wassouf, M., Dick, R., Alqaid, A., Morales Demori, R "The Safety and Tolerability of Regadenoson in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease: The First Prospective Evaluation." 2013 April ; : Pubmed PMID: 23239416
- Rangel, MO., Morales Demori, R., Doukky, R "Age and Gender as Predictors of Benefit From Aminophylline Administration in Patients Undergoing Regadenoson Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: A Substudy of the ASSUAGE Trial." 2013 November ; : Pubmed PMID: 24100259
- Doukky, R., Morales Demori, R., Jain, S., Kiriakos, R., Mwansa, V., Calvin, JE "Attenuation of The Side Effect Profile of Regadenoson: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study with Aminophylline in Patients Undergoing Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. “THE ASSUAGE TRIAL"." 2012 June ; : Pubmed PMID: 22395779
- Seymor E, Mallory GB, Morales-Demori R "Surgical and Cardiac Cateterization Outcomes of Scimitar Syndrome Patients: A Three Decade Single-Center Experience." 2022 :
- Morales-Demori R, Mallory GB, Chartan C, Coleman R, Ruiz F, Villafranco N, Whalen E, Varghese N. "Outcomes of COVID-19 Infection in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension: A single-center experience." 2021 August 30; : Pubmed PMID: 34460150
Funding
- Educational Scholarship Awards
- $15,000.00 Grant funding from Texas Children's Hospital
- 2022
Languages
Spanish
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