Priya Sekar, MD, MPH
Pediatric Cardiology
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
About Priya Sekar
Background
Dr. Priya Sekar is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise are fetal and pediatric cardiology, echocardiography and noninvasive imaging
After receiving her undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, Dr. Sekar earned a master’s degree in public health from George Washington University. She received her medical degree from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science/Chicago Medical School. She completed her general pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital Oakland and performed her pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She was a fetal/perinatal cardiology and clinical research fellow at the University of Alberta/Stollery Children's Hospital.
Dr. Sekar was a fetal/perinatal cardiology and clinical research fellow at the University of Alberta/Stollery Children's Hospital.
Centers and Institutes
- Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Pediatric and Congenital Heart
- Heart and Vascular Institute
- Johns Hopkins Children's Center
CV
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/johns-hopkins-childrens-center/_documents/_cvs/priya_sekar_cv09.pdf
Selected Publications
Sekar P, Marcus KL, Williams EP, Boss RD. "Red flags: a case series of clinician-family communication challenges in the context of CHD" Cardiology in the Young, 2017 Jul;27(5):1000-1003
Albalawi A, Brancusi F, Askin F, Ehsanipoor R, Wang J, Burd I, Sekar P. "Placental characteristics of fetuses with congenital heart disease" Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2017 May;36(5):965-972
Hinton RB, Andelfinger G, Sekar P, Hinton AC, Gendron RL, Michelfelder EC, Robitaille Y, Benson DW. "Prenatal Head Growth and White Matter Injury in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome". Pediatric Research, 64:364-69, May 2008
Hutchinson D, McBrien A, Howley L, Yamamoto Y, Sekar P, Motan T, Jain V, Savard W, Hornberger LK. "First-Trimester Fetal Echocardiography: Identification of Cardiac Structures for Screening from 6 to 13 Weeks' Gestational Age." J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2017 Aug; 30(8):763-772
McKenney S, Mansouri F, Everett A, Graham E, Burd I, Sekar P. "Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein as a Biomarker for Brain Injury in Neonatal Congenital Heart Disease" Cardiology in the Young 2016 Jan 20:1-8
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Bloomberg Childrens Center M2307 Pediatric Cardiology, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-5987
- fax: 410-955-0897
Expertise
Education
Stollery Children's Hospital
Fellowship, 2009Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Fellowship, Pediatric Cardiology, 2008Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Residency, Pediatrics, 2005Chicago Medical School Rosalind Franklin University
Medical Education, MD, 2002The George Washington University Hospital
Graduate School, MPH, 1998Board Certifications
Pediatric Cardiology
American Board of Pediatrics, 2010Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)