CURRICULUM VITAE
Raji Venkitachalam MBBS
Raji Venkitachalam MBBS
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatrics Critical Care
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatrics Critical Care
OFFICE ADDRESS: |
9000 West Wisconsin Avenue |
Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
EDUCATION: |
2006 - 2011 MBBS, Cochin Medical College, India |
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS: |
2011 - 2012 Internship, Cochin Medical College, India |
2014 - 2017 Residency, Pediatric, John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL |
2017 - 2020 Fellowship, Pediatrics, Critical Care, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9000 W Wisconsin Ave, MS 681, 9000 W Wisconsin Ave, MS 681, Wauwatosa, WI 53226 |
2020 - 2022 Fellowship, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9000 W Wisconsin Ave, MS 681, 9000 W Wisconsin Ave, MS 681, Wauwatosa, WI 53226 |
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: |
01/10/2022 - Present Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9000 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
2022 - Present Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Critical Care, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9000 W Wisconsin Ave, MS 681, 9000 W Wisconsin Ave, MS 681, Wauwatosa, WI 53226 |
SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION: |
Board Certified | Issue Date | Expiration |
Pediatrics - Critical Care Medicine | None | |
Pediatrics - General | None | |
ECFMG | None | |
Travancore Medical Council Certified | None | |
Certificates | Issued By | Issue Date | Expiration |
Advanced Trauma Life Support | AHA | None | |
Pediatric Advanced Life Support | AHA | None | |
Basic Life Support | AHA | None | |
AWARDS AND HONORS: |
2011 Gold medal in Pediatrics , Government Medical College, Ernakulam |
2014 - 2017 Residency Program delegate at the AAP SOMSRFT Annual meetings, AAP |
2015 Best Intern, John H Stroger Hospital of Cook County |
2015 CATCH (Community Access To Child Health) Grant , AAP |
2018 Internal Funding Grant, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin |
2019 Teaching Pin , Medical College of Wisconsin |
2020 Critical Care, Physician-in-Training Travel Award, AAP |
MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: |
SCCM (Member) |
SPR (Member) |
AAP (Member) |
AAP SOPT (Member) |
AMA (Member) |
PCICS (Member) |
IHI (Member) |
RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS/CONTRACTS/PROJECTS: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS: |
International |
K. Cathcpole Ph.D, M.Scanlon MD, C.Lusk Ph.D, R.Venkitachalam MD, The Importance of Hazards and Risk, IHI Annual Conference, Dec 2023, Orlando, Florida |
COMMITTEE SERVICE: |
Hospital |
Member, Code Review Committee, Pediatrics, Children's Wisconsin |
MCW TEACHING ACTIVITIES: |
Medical Student Education |
2018 - 2021 Case Based Discussions |
Nov '23 - Hands-on session teaching 275 Milwaukee M1 medical students core clinical skills including proper use of PPE, safe handling of sharps, and fundamentals of physical ergonomics including safe lifting and reducing injuries while using technology. |
January 2023:Invited speaker for a session for ~40 Medical Students about Diagnostic Errors |
Resident and Fellow Education |
Cardiology Fellows Core lecture series, June 2023 |
Nursing Student Education |
2023 - Present - Developed a Lecture series for Nurses in the CICU: “CICU Chats”- Ongoing monthly lecture series. |
EXTRAMURAL TEACHING: |
Resident and Fellow Education |
2017 - 2020 Medical College of Wisconsin, Children’s Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, Facilitated Simulation Sessions |
2017 - 2020 Medical College of Wisconsin, Children’s Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, Resident Lectures- Topics including mechanical ventilator management, Cardio-pulmonary hemodynamics, shock and vasoactive infusions, sedation and analgesia |
2020 - 2021 Medical College of Wisconsin, Children’s Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, Herma Heart Institute Curriculum Teaching-Cardiac Tumors, Diseases of the Pericardium and Cardiovascular Trauma, Tetralogy of Fallot, Morbidity and Mortality Conference |
Sep '23 Invited Speaker/Teaching faculty at the Midwest ECMO Bootcamp for Pediatric Anesthesiology fellows |
PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENTS: |
Clinical Programs |
04/2023 - Present Continuous EEG Monitoring for Neonates after CPB; A Clinical Practice Change |
COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES: |
2010 - 2011 Make A Difference – Volunteer Work During Medical School – Organization to help kids at risk and lower Socio-economic Status to obtain job skills and enable them to be self-sustained 2010-2011 |
2012 Medical Camps – Worked with the Medical Teams providing Medical Care to the Tribal Population in Rural Parts of India (Kuttampuzha Project) 2012 |
2015 CATCH Grant – Advocacy Project To Educate LGBTQ Youth in Chicago Regarding STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) (2015) |
H and P reader for Medical Students, Winter 2022 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers |
1. Venkitachalam R, Szabo A, Guru Murthy GS. Population-Level Outcomes of Pediatric Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia in the United States. J Pediatr. 2020 Aug;223:114-119.e5. |
2. Guru Murthy GS, Venkitachalam R, Mehta P. Trends in survival outcomes of B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia in elderly patients: analysis of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. Leuk Lymphoma. 2015;56(8):2296-300. |
3. Venkitachalam Raji, Guru Murthy Guru Subramanian, Naheed Zahra. Trends In Hospital Admissions For Pediatric And Adolescent Malignant Hypertension And Hypertensive Encephalopathy. Journal Of The American Society Of Hypertension Vol. 9(Issue 4): e112-e113. . |
4. Guru Murthy GS, Venkitachalam R, Mehta P. Effect of radiotherapy on the survival of patients with stage I and stage II mantle cell lymphoma: analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2014 Sep;14 Suppl:S90-5. |
5. Scanlon MC, Venkitachalam R, Catchpole K. When is a central venous access device not a central venous access device? When it is a hazard. Pediatr Res. 2024 Dec;96(7):1541-1542. |
6. Beshish AG, Kwiatkowski DM, Sznycer-Taub N, Costello JM, Jergel A, Gillespie S, Cashen K, Asfari A, Batsis M, Buckley JR, Chlebowski MM, Flores S, Goldshtrom N, Migally K, Mills KI, Radman MR, Reddy C, Shutes B, Riley CM, Narasimhulu SS, Mueller D, Amula V, Venkitachalam R, Joy BF, Karki KB, Leopold SM, Schramm JE, Capone CA, Aydin SI, Bakar AM, Leong K, Kulikowska A, Wing S, Mastropietro CW, Collaborative Research from the Pediatric Intensive Care Society (CoRe‐PCICS) Investigators. Hyperoxia During Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Bypass Is Associated With Worse Clinical Outcomes: A Multi-Institutional Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2026 Jan 06;15(1):e045890. PMCID: PMC12909032 |
7. Ladell MM, Jacobson NL, Yale SC, Venkitachalam R, McCarthy C, Suenkens K, Catchpole KR, Nimmer M, Scanlon MC, Papautsky EL. Getting SSPOT to run: Development of a novel direct observational tool for usage in clinical settings. Appl Ergon. 2027 Jan;138:104844. |
8. Venkitachalam R, Cashen K, Mastropietro CW, Zhang L, Ke Y, Frommelt PC, Woods RK, Amula V, Badheka A, Buckley J, Bakar A, Caudill E, Chiwane S, Flores S, Gowda K, Iliopoulos I, Karki K, Kwiatkowski D, Migally K, Narasimhulu SS, Piggott K, Radman M, Riley CM, Sassalos P, Smerling J, Wilhelm M. Does pre-operative left ventricular function predict mitral valve function after anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery repair? Jtcvs Open. 2026. |
9. Venkitachalam R, Cashen K, Mastropietro CW, Zhang L, Ke Y, Frommelt PC, Woods RK, Collaborative Research from the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (CoRe-PCICS) Investigators. Does pre-operative left ventricular function predict mitral valve function after anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery repair? JTCVS Open. 2026 Aug;32:101873. PMCID: PMC13477075 |
