Sai Mukthapuram, MD

Attending Neonatologist, Division of Neonatology
Attending Neonatologist, Perinatal Institute
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

sai.mukthapuram@cchmc.org

About

Biography

Doing the right things at the right time can give sick babies an entirely new life. Since my medical school training in South India, I have wanted to become a neonatologist to help sick newborns. I believe training and mentoring fellows, residents and medical students will lay a strong foundation to help advance the field of neonatology as trainees are the future of medicine.

My areas of research include medical education, point-of-care ultrasound and quality improvement. My goals are to introduce point-of-care ultrasound curriculum in neonatology and other innovative evidence-based strategies for the advancement of medical education at Cincinnati Children’s.

I received the Reginald Tsang Outstanding Fellow Award (2018), the Outstanding Fellow Teaching Award (2018 & 2019) and the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award (2020), all from Cincinnati Children’s. I am the communications chair and secretary for the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Trainees and Early Career Neonatologists (TECaN). I’m also board-certified by the American Board of Pediatrics (2016).

Services and Specialties

Research Areas

Neonatology

Publications

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Assessment of Pulmonary Vascularity in Preterm Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. Mukthapuram, S; Donaher, A; Higano, NS; Rowe, JA; Tkach, JA; Woods, JC; Kingma, PS. Neonatology: foetal and neonatal research. 2025; 122:76-83.

Essentials of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Coding and Billing at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Setting in the United States. Chan, B; Mnyavanu, N; Bhombal, S; Fraga, MV; Groves, AM; Marshall, S; Mukthapuram, S; Singh, Y. American Journal of Perinatology: neonatal and maternal-fetal medicine. 2024; 41:2014-2020.

Design and Implementation of a Didactic Curriculum in a Large Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program: A Single-Center Experience. Mukthapuram, S; Ann Johnson, B; Slagle, C; Erickson, J; Kamath-Rayne, BD; Brady, JM. American Journal of Perinatology: neonatal and maternal-fetal medicine. 2024; 41:1874-1879.

Association of enlarged extra-axial spaces and subdural hemorrhage in preterm infants at term-equivalent age. Sharma, P; Kline-Fath, BM; Mukthapuram, S; Shapiro, RA; Parikh, NA. Emergency Radiology. 2024; 31:619-623.

Initial feasibility and challenges of hyperpolarized 129 Xe MRI in neonates with bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Stewart, NJ; Higano, NS; Mukthapuram, S; Willmering, MM; Loew, W; West, M; Arnsperger, A; Pratt, R; Rao, MR; Schulte, RF; Wild, JM; Woods, JC. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2023; 90:2420-2431.

Newborn with Lethargy and Hypotonia. Rowe, JA; Vedala, K; Thomas, C; Mukthapuram, S. NeoReviews.org. 2023; 24:e733-e736.

What is the minimum duration of cycled phototherapy that is still effective in treating hyperbilirubinemia?. Sharma, P; Mukthapuram, S. Journal of Perinatology. 2023; 43:1449-1451.

A Term Infant with Respiratory Distress after Feeding. Shah, M; Mukthapuram, S; Melton, K; House, M. NeoReviews.org. 2023; 24:e322-e325.

Use of a digital texting platform to foster collaborative learning in Trainees and Early Career Neonatologists. Rent, S; Koo, J; Bhatia, A; Bernstein, S; Arias-Shah, AM; Mukthapuram, S. Journal of Perinatology. 2022; 42:1535-1537.

Neonatal POCUS: Embracing our modern day "stethoscope ". Shepherd, J; Mukthapuram, S; Kim, JH. Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. 2022; 27:101394.