Bhargavi Kola
MD, MPA, FAAP
Office Address Lone Star Pediatrics, 912 E 5
th
street, Odessa, TX 79761.
E-mail adjauh@r.postjobfree.com
Contact number 432-***-****
Education:
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
Gandhi Medical College, India.
2007- 2010 M.D (Pediatrics)
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
New York
2008 M.P.A (Master’s in Public Administration)
New Jersey
Work Experience:
07/2010 – 06/2012 Private Practice
Lamington Pediatrics,
New Jersey
07/2012-01/2019 Faculty/ Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics, TTUHSC Permian Basin.
08/2012 – 1/2019 Medical Director- Pediatric Clinic TTUHSC
09/2012 – Present Chief Medical Consultant
Reach Out and Read Program - Early literacy
encouragement program
02/2019 to Present Private Practice
Lone Star Pediatrics, Odessa
Faculty Research Committee appointments:
11/2016-11/2018 Member on Institutional Review Board Clinical Research Institute, TTUHSC
Professional Development:
Leadership skills at Work place
Course Director: Institutional Grand rounds TTUHSC, School of Medicine, Permian Basin. Professional memberships
2010-2020 Member, American Academy of Pediatrics
2015-2020 Member, Council of Media and Communications, AAP Chapter 2016-2018 Member, Academic Pediatric Association
2016-2019 Regional NICHQ Learning collaborative member Board certifications:
2011 American Board of Pediatrics
2012 Fellow American Academy of Pediatrics
Publications
• Biliary Pancreatitis and Non Alcoholic Steatohepatitis in an Obese Adolescent Female on Oral Contraceptives, Metformin and Spironolactone. Bhargavi B Kola, MD, MPA
(Primary Author); Swati Dave Sharma, MD. Department of Pediatrics, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center. Bronx, New York. Pediatrics in Review 2010;31;433, DOI: 10.1542/pir.31-10-433. PMID #20889739
• Is technology a boon or a bane? “Your Voice” section of Contemporary Pediatrics, December 2014.
• Fibular Hemimelia with Bilateral Clubfoot and Polysyndactyly: Consultant for Pediatricians. Bhargavi B Kola, MD; Vivekananda Dasari, MD. Citation# CFP. 2015;14(1): 45-47.
• Infantile Hemangioma significant improvement with beta blockers : Wang Li MD, Bhargavi Kola, MD, Bhavana Mocherla MD, George Rodenkoff MD. Consultant for Pediatricians October 2015. Citation# CFP.2015;14(11):496-498. 3 citations ( from Elsevier.com- Vol 184, 1April 2015, Pages 533-539, Cardiovascular Diabetology 201514:106, DOI: 10.1186/s12933-015-0269-1 and from lww.com)
• Unilateral Testicular Microlithiasis- A Rare Pediatric Incidental Finding. BMJ Case Reports 2016; doi:10.1136/bcr-201*-******.PMID# 27613265.
• Variability in Clinical Presentation of Neonatal Stroke: Report of Four Cases," Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, vol. 2017, Article ID 5215686, 4 pages, 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/5215686. S Joseph, D Angelis MD, R Bennett MD, B Kola MD and Amanda Hughes PNP. PMID# 28194288.
• Pediatric Testicular Microlithiasis: PMID# 29051915. To refer or not To Refer: Global Pediatric Health. October 2017.
• Phacomatosis Pigmento-vascularis: PMID# 29067825. Simple presentation of a not so simple dermatological condition. Clinical Pediatrics October 2017
• Breast Feeding support: Do female health care providers do better than their peers? Bhargavi Kola, Jarrod Tunnell BS, Megan Mikesell and Veena Agusala. Pediatrics.2018; 142(1): 1- Meeting Abstract.
• Can Interactive parental education impact health care utilization in pediatric asthma: A study in rural Texas Journal of International Medical Research May 2018. DOI: 10.1177/0300060518773621, PMID #29848134
Vijay Agusala B.S, Priyanka Vij B.S; Veena Agusala,Vivekananda Dasari MD and Bhargavi Kola, MD.
• Comparing the asthma control in overweight/obese and normal weight pediatric patients: A retrospective study in West Texas. Jason Huang, J Lever, Bhargavi Kola MD. The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles. July 2018.
• Guest Editorial: Speak to your patients about the harms of energy drinks. Sandrine Defeu BS, MPA and Bhargavi Kola, MD. Pediatrics News- Healio. October 2018.
• Unexpected presentation of Helicobacter pylori in a male child. B Kola, BMJ Case Reports, November 2018.
• Improving Health Outcomes for Immigrant Families Through IPV Screening: Resources and Recommendations for Pediatric Health Care Providers. N.Prakash a
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B.Kola
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SK.Wood
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. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care. Volume 49, Issue 1, Jan 2019, Pages 7-15 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cppeds.2018.11.007
• Munchausen Syndrome and Chronic Osteomyelitis. Bhargavi Kola, MD, Tara Deaver PhD, Stephanie Moses, PhD and Vivekanand Dasari MD. Consultant for Pediatricians, August 2019.
International Presentations:
• “Case of rare male genital malformation” presented as e-poster presentation at CIP, 4 th
Global Congress and Budapest, Hungary March 2015.
• XXIX International Workshop on Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group with abstract # P01.16.
• Neonatal Stroke A case Series International Conference on Clinical Neonatology Turin, Italy and insert in American Journal of perinatology. September 2016.
• Pitt-Rogers-Danks syndrome @ 8
th
international conference: Excellence in Pediatrics, London December 2016, co-sponsored by World Health Organization.
• Testicular Microlithiasis: Impact on Family at World Summit on Pediatrics, Porto, Portugal, June 2016.
• Small Changes Big Impact @ 8
th
international conference: Excellence in Pediatrics, London December 2016, co-sponsored by World Health Organization.
• Interactive Parental Asthma Education and Impact on Health Care Utilization @ World Summit Pediatrics June 2018, Madrid Spain.
Grants:
Federal Grant: DSRIP Waiver 1115 Grant (2014- 2018) Target Educational Grant (2013)
Centring Implementation grant (2018)
Environmental Integrity Project Grant(2020).
Community Outreach activities:
Community activities to promote literacy: Spring into reading Asthma education program: ECISD
Asthma awareness event
Health education at public schools
Super Parent classes
Training First Responders
Free flu clinics