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Venkat R. Shankar, MD

The Center for Hospital-based Specialties

Departments
Critical Care Medicine
Division Chief, Respiratory Care Services

Programs
Cardiac Critical Care
Medical Director, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program (ECMO)
Heart Failure Program
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)


Board CertificationsAmerican Board of Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics/Critical Care
National Provider Identifier1124124300
E-Mail
Biography

Venkat R. Shankar, MD, MBA, joined Children’s National as the Division chief of Respiratory Care from St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia where he was Chief of Pediatric Critical Care after having been recruited from Vanderbilt University three years earlier. Dr. Shankar also is an attending in the PICU and CICU. His research interests include Extracorporeal membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), status asthmaticus, congenital heart disease and procedural sedation.
Education
TypeSchoolLocationDegreeField of StudyYears
Medical School All India Inst. of Med Science New Delhi, IndiaDoctor of Medicine 1980 -1988

Training
TypeInstitutionLocationPositionSpecialtyYears
Internship Program All India Institute of Med Sciences New Delhi, IndiaInternship Pediatrics 1985 - 1985
Residency Program A.I. Dupont Hospital for Children Wilmington, DEResident Pediatric 1992 - 1993
Fellowship Program Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PAFellow Pediatric Critical Care 1993 - 1996
Affiliations and Memberships
TitleInstitutionCommittee / SectionYears
FellowAmerican Academy of Pediatrics1999
FellowAmerican College of Chest Physicians 2000
MemberSociety of Critical Care Medicine1993
MemberSociety for Pediatric Sedation2009
Publications
Journal Article, V Shankar (2008), Sedating children for radiological procedures:an intensivist’s perspective., Pediatr Radiol, 38.

Journal Article, V Shankar, K B Churchwell, J K Deshpande (2006), Isoflurane Therapy for Life Threatening Status Asthmaticus in Children, Intensive Care Medicine, 32, 6, 927-933.

Journal Article (2006), Late Presentation of Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 7, 2, 177-179.

Journal Article, SA Shah, V Shankar, KB Churchwell, MB Taylor, BP Scott, R Bartilson, DW Byrne, KG Christian, DC Drinkwater (2005), Clinical Outcomes of 84 Children with Congenital Heart Disease Managed with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation after Cardiac Surgery, ASAIO Journal, 51, 5, 504-507.

Journal Article (1988), Cardiac tamponade in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Ind Pediatr, 25, 3, 75-76.



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