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V. Mohan Reddy

MD

  • Professor, Surgery
  • Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Co-Director, UCSF Pediatric Heart Center

Biography

V. Mohan Reddy, MD, is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at UCSF and Co-Director of the Pediatric Heart Center at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - San Francisco.

Dr. Reddy earned his master's degree from the Institute of Medicine in New Delhi and his medical degree from Kakatiya Medical College in Warngal, India. He completed general surgical and cardiothoracic and vascular surgical residencies in India and then came to the United States, where he served for a year as Chief Pediatric Heart Surgery Resident at Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Reddy then went on to a clinical fellowship in pediatric cardiovascular surgery at Miami Children's Hospital and a combined clinical and research fellowship in pediatric cardiac surgery here at UCSF. After completing that fellowship, he was appointed to the Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery faculty and remained here until 2001.

Prior to his return to UCSF, Dr. Reddy was Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Stanford School of Medicine, where he performed pioneering, successful cardiac surgeries on premature and extremely low birth weight neonates previously thought to be inoperable. He brings a tremendous fund of knowledge, experience and innovation back to UCSF.

Dr. Reddy's research and clinical interests focus on complex neonatal repairs, including on premature and extremely low birth weight babies; fetal heart surgery; and cerebral protection during heart surgery.

Since 2003, Dr. Reddy has been an active volunteer surgeon with Children's HeartLink, an international nonprofit that provides complex cardiac care to children in remote regions around the world, with yearly surgical clinics in India and China.

Dr. Reddy is a member of many professional societies, including the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons, the American Heart Association, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiology in the Young and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles.

Publications

  • Stevens L, Colglazier E, Parker C, Amin EK, Nawaytou H, Teitel D, Reddy VM, Welch CL, Chung WK, Fineman JR. Genetics dictating therapeutic decisions in pediatric pulmonary hypertension? A case report suggesting we are getting closer. Pulm Circ. 2022 Jan; 12(1):e12033. PubMed
  • Steurer MA, Peyvandi S, Costello JM, Moon-Grady AJ, Habib RH, Hill KD, Jacobs ML, Jelliffe-Pawlowski LL, Keller RL, Pasquali SK, Reddy VM, Tabbutt S, Rajagopal S. Association between Z-score for birth weight and postoperative outcomes in neonates and infants with congenital heart disease. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 12; 162(6):1838-1847.e4. PubMed
  • Romer AJ, Tabbutt S, Etheridge SP, Fischbach P, Ghanayem NS, Reddy VM, Sahulee R, Tanel RE, Tweddell JS, Gaies M, Banerjee M, Retzloff L, Zhang W, Patel AR. Atrioventricular block after congenital heart surgery: Analysis from the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 03; 157(3):1168-1177.e2. PubMed
  • Hassan F, Patel A, Reddy VM, Nawaytou H. Postablation Right Atrial Dissection in Ebstein's Anomaly. CASE (Phila). 2018 Feb; 2(1):16-19. PubMed
  • Siehr SL, Shi S, Hao S, Hu Z, Jin B, Hanley F, Reddy VM, McElhinney DB, Ling XB, Shin AY. Exploring the Role of Polycythemia in Patients With Cyanosis After Palliative Congenital Heart Surgery. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2016 Mar; 17(3):216-22. PubMed
  • Ceresnak SR, Perera JL, Motonaga KS, Avasarala K, Malloy-Walton L, Hanisch D, Punn R, Maeda K, Reddy VM, Doan LN, Kirby K, Dubin AM. Ventricular lead redundancy to prevent cardiovascular events and sudden death from lead fracture in pacemaker-dependent children. Heart Rhythm. 2015 Jan; 12(1):111-6. PubMed
  • Ma X, Barboza LA, Siyahian A, Reinhartz O, Maeda K, Reddy VM, Hanley FL, Riemer RK. Tetralogy of Fallot: aorto-pulmonary collaterals and pulmonary arteries have distinctly different transcriptomes. Pediatr Res. 2014 Oct; 76(4):341-6. PubMed
  • Adorno M, Sikandar S, Mitra SS, Kuo A, Nicolis Di Robilant B, Haro-Acosta V, Ouadah Y, Quarta M, Rodriguez J, Qian D, Reddy VM, Cheshier S, Garner CC, Clarke MF. Usp16 contributes to somatic stem-cell defects in Down's syndrome. Nature. 2013 Sep 19; 501(7467):380-4. PubMed
  • Mainwaring RD, Sheikh AY, Punn R, Reddy VM, Hanley FL. Surgical outcomes for patients with pulmonary atresia/major aortopulmonary collaterals and Alagille syndrome. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2012 Aug; 42(2):235-40; discussion 240-1. PubMed
  • McMullan DM, Reddy VM, Gottliebson WM, Silverman NH, Perry SB, Chan F, Hanley FL, Riemer RK. Morphological studies of pulmonary arteriovenous shunting in a lamb model of superior cavopulmonary anastomosis. Pediatr Cardiol. 2008 Jul; 29(4):706-12. PubMed
  • Gulati R, Reddy VM, Culbertson C, Helton G, Suleman S, Reinhartz O, Silverman N, Hanley FL. Surgical management of coronary artery arising from the wrong coronary sinus, using standard and novel approaches. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2007 Nov; 134(5):1171-8. PubMed
  • Williams GD, Ramamoorthy C, Chu L, Hammer GB, Kamra K, Boltz MG, Pentcheva K, McCarthy JP, Reddy VM. Modified and conventional ultrafiltration during pediatric cardiac surgery: clinical outcomes compared. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2006 Dec; 132(6):1291-8. PubMed
  • Amin Z, Woo R, Danford DA, Froemming SE, Reddy VM, Lof J, Overman D. Robotically assisted perventricular closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defects: preliminary results in Yucatan pigs. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2006 Feb; 131(2):427-32. PubMed
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