Dr. Abhinash Srivatsa

Brief Biography:

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Educational qualifications: November 2007: Board Certification in Pediatric Endocrinology, American Board of Pediatrics October 2004: Board Certification in General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics June 1999: Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London, UK February1994: Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S), St John’s Medical College, Bangalore University, India Postdoctoral Training: 07/2004 – 07/2007: Fellow in Endocrinology, Children’s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 07/2001 - 06/2004: Resident in Pediatrics, St John Hospital and Medical Center, 22101 Moross Road, Detroit, MI 48236 09/2000 – 03/2001: Specialist Registrar in Community Pediatrics at Worcester (West Midlands Deanery), UK. 02/2000 - 07/2000: Senior House Officer (SHO) Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolic Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. 08/1999 – 02/2000: SHO, Pediatric Orthopedics and Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. 02/1999 - 08/1999: SHO, General Pediatrics and Neonatology, Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge, London, UK. 02/1998 - 02/1999: SHO, General Pediatrics and Neonatology, Royal Hull Hospitals, East Yorkshire, UK. 11/1996 - 02/1998: SHO, Neonatology and Community Pediatrics, Havering Hospitals and Barking, Havering & Brentwood NHS Trust, Essex, UK. 05/1995 – 04/1996: Research Officer at the Nutrition Research Centre, St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, India. 05/1994 - 04/1995: House Officer, St John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India.

Academic positions:

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Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Research interests:

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Vasopressin biology (using the vasopressin knock-out mouse model) Regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis Water balance Nutrition research The use of mass spectrometry, calorimetry and stable isotopes Childhood obesity Type II diabetes in children and young adults Pediatric endocrinology and diabetes

Any other information:

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Author of textbook chapters: Abhinash Srivatsa, Joseph Majzoub and Michael Kappy. Posterior Pituitary: Disorders of Water Metabolism. Pediatric Practice: Endocrinology. 2nd Edition. Editors: Kappy, Allen and Geffner, McGraw Hill, New York, NY. (in publication) Joseph Majzoub, Louis Muglia and Abhinash Srivatsa. Disorders of Posterior Pituitary. Pediatric Endocrinology. 4th Edition. Editor: Mark Sperling. Publisher: Elsevier. (expected release date: 03/01/2014) Frederick Grant and Abhinash Srivatsa. Diabetes Insipidus. Pediatric Endocrinology: A Practical Clinical Guide. 2nd Edition. Editors: Sally Radovick and Margaret MacGillivray. Publishers: Springer. Kathleen Reardon, Sara Einis and Abhinash Srivatsa. Chapter on Diabetes Mellitus in Children Assisted by Medical Technology in Educational Settings: Guidelines for Care. Porter, S. Branowicki, P and Palfrey J. (book in publication). Abhinash Srivatsa and Joseph Majzoub. Primary Disturbances in Water Homeostasis. Rudolph’s Pediatrics 22nd Edition. 2011. Editors: Colin D. Rudolph, Abraham M. Rudolph, George E. Lister, Lewis First and Anne A. Gershon. Publishers: McGraw Hill. Abhinash Srivatsa, Joseph Majzoub and Michael Kappy. Posterior Pituitary: Disorders of Water Metabolism. Pediatric Practice: Endocrinology. 1st Edition. Editors: Kappy, Allen and Geffner, McGraw Hill, New York, NY. Srivatsa A, Majzoub JA. “Disorders of Water Homeostasis”: chapter on the posterior pituitary gland in Pediatric Endocrinology, Vol. II, 5th Edition, Editor: Fima Lifshitz, M.D., Publisher: Marcel Dekker, Inc.

What I think of the idea behind WebmedCentral:

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I consider this a very nice idea, a platform through which scientists and researchers can present their work/results to a wide audience without any restriction. I also like to fact that the peer review is done after the article is posted/published in a very transparent manner.