Diwakar Turaga, MD, PhD
Department or Service
Location
- Texas Medical Center
Specialty
Phone: 832-826-6230
Contact Information
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Education
| School | Education | Degree | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | fellowship | Pediatric Critical Care | 2019 |
| University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine | fellowship | Pediatric Cardiology | 2018 |
| Washington University – St Louis Children’s Hospital | residency | Pediatrics | 2015 |
| Washington University – St Louis | medical school | Doctor of Medicine | 2012 |
| Washington University - St. Louis | PhD | Doctor of Philosophy | 2012 |
About
I am a physician-scientist with clinical training in pediatric cardiac critical care and research training in stem-cell biology and microscopy. My career objective is to bring cardiac regenerative medicine therapies to the bedside.
Clinical Interests:
Congenital cardiac critical care
Research Interests:
Regenerative medicine, stem-cell derived cardiac microtissues, light sheet microscopy, Calcium imaging
Organization
| Organization Name | Role |
|---|---|
| American Academy of Pediatrics | Member |
Selected Publications
Hammen GF, Turaga D and Holy TE, Meeks JP, “Functional glomerular maps of the accessory olfactory bulb reveal a regionally homophylic, locally heterophylic organization.” Nature Neuroscience 17(7): 953(2014).
Turaga D and Holy TE, “Aberrations and their correction in light-sheet microscopy: a low-dimensional parameterization.” Biomed Opt Express 4(9):1654 (2013).
Turaga D and Holy TE, “Organization of vomeronasal sensory coding revealed by fast volumetric calcium imaging.” Journal of Neuroscience 32:1612 (2012).
Turaga D and Holy TE, “Image-based calibration of a deformable mirror in wide-field microscopy.” Applied Optics 49:2030 (2010).
Turaga D and Holy TE, “Miniaturization and defocus correction for objective-coupled planar illumination microscopy.” Optics Letters 33:2302 (2008).
Holekamp TF, Turaga D and Holy TE, “Fast three-dimensional fluorescence imaging of activity in neural populations by objective-coupled planar illumination microscopy.” Neuron 57:661 (2008).