Thiagarajan Nandhagopal MD
Pediatric hospitalist
Bakersfield
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
8
8
Certifications
Work History
Chief, Pediatrics
Kern Medical center
01.2019 - Current
Clinical Assistant professor
St Mary's hospital
12.2016 - 06.2019
- Best teacher award
Assistant Medical Director
Bon Secours Health System
07.2012 - 11.2016
- Pediatric urgent care
- Cox health and Medical center
- Springfield, Missouri
Assistant Medical Director
Cox Health and medical centre
01.2012 - 01.2016
- Formulated Pediatric urgent care protocols
- Responsible for family medicine resident training and curriculum.
- Responsible for medical student pediatric rotations at the urgent care
Pediatric consultant
Life care hospital
07.2006 - 05.2009
- India
Medical director
NICU
01.2006 - 01.2009
- Key role in neonatal sepsis prevention Training pediatric residents
- Formulated CLABSI quality improvement program.
- Responsible for LBW follow-up program
Chief Resident
Institute of child health
01.2003 - 01.2006
- Represented residents in the pediatric resident education committee
- Actively participated in medical student education – conducted classes and weekly quizzes
- Member of PALS training committee – contributed to management protocols
- Instructor - NALS Training course
Residential Medical officer
SMS Hospital
01.1999 - 06.2003
- India
Chief Medical officer
primary health care center
01.1999 - 01.2003
- Provided primary health care for a village with a population of nearly one hundred thousand – practised primary and secondary prevention strategies, prevention of maternal and neonatal mortality, and early identification and management of chronic illnesses
- Responsible for training and supervision of 10 nursing, laboratory, and other ancillary staff
- Conducted pulse polio vaccination program, tuberculosis control program, National leprosy eradication program, and school health education program
Education
Board Certification - Pediatric Hospital Medicine
01.2022
Board certification - obesity medicine
01.2021
Board Certification - Pediatric Medicine
01.2012
Pediatric residency - undefined
St John medical center
01.2012
Pediatric residency - undefined
Institute of child health
01.2006
Bachelor of Science - undefined
The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Stanley Medical College
01.1998
Certification
2019 Pediatric Advanced Life Support
Awards
2022/2024 Best faculty award form CSV Family medicine program, 2021/2022/2023/2024 Best pediatric faculty, kern Medical Center, 2019 Best teacher award from UVA, 2007 Divisional medal, IAP pediatric quiz, 2006 Divisional medal, IAP pediatric quiz, 2005 Divisional medal, IAP pediatric quiz, 2006 Honors, Pediatric training, ICH, Chennai, 1992-1998 Honors in anatomy, biochemistry, ENT, Ophthalmology, internal medicine, pediatrics, and surgery
Affiliations
- 2019 Licensure as a Physician/Surgeon- Medical Board of California
- 2016 Licensure as a Physician/Surgeon- Virginia medical Board
- 2014 Licensure as a Physician/Surgeon - North Carolina Board
- 2013 American Board of Pediatrics
- 2012 Fellow- American Academy of Pediatrics
- 2012 Licensure as a Physician/Surgeon- Missouri Medical Board
- 2009 American Academy of Pediatrics
- 2008 National Neonatology Forum, India
- 2003 Indian Academy of Pediatrics
Publications
- July 2025 Perichondritis in a Six-week-old pediatric patient – Cureus
- April 2025 A Family With Factor VII Deficiency: A Possible Autosomal Dominant Transmission - cureus
- March 2025 Pyomyositis Caused by Coccidioides in a 15-Year-Old Male - consultant
- May 2022 Developmental dysplasia of the Hip, Stat pearls,NIH
- Feb 2012 Popsicle Panniculitis, Consultant 360, Vol 52, Issue2
- June 2008 Pediatric Intensive Clinical Training Manual, June 2008
- Approach to floppy infant, Indian Academy of Pediatrics
- March 2005 Nutritional Symposium, March 2005
- Nutritional management of children with metabolic disorders, India
- October 2003 Management Protocol of Pediatric Emergencies
- Management of dengue hemorrhagic shock, IAP, India
- August 2009 Evidence-Based Journal Club, St. John Hospital What is the role of statins in the treatment of PCOS?
- September 2010 Evidence-Based Journal Club, St. John Hospital What is the role of propranolol in the treatment of infantile hemangiomas?
- September 2011 Evidence-Based Journal Club, St. John Hospital Can CRP be used as a guide in the treatment of neonatal sepsis?
- May 2005 Annual Conference of IAP- TNSC Knowledge, attitude, and practice of medical professionals in biomedical waste management
- June 2005 National Neonatology Forum, India Case Report of Pseudo hypoaldosteronism in Newborn
Quality Improvement Experience
- 2018 Protocol for subthreshold therapy for jaundice in the neonatal period for pediatric hospitalist program at St Mary’s hospital, Richmond
- 2018 Improvement in patient sign-out using IPASS
- 2017 Breastfeeding friendly consortium- Breastfeeding friendly performance improvement
- 2017 EQIPP Asthma- Hospitalist track
- 2016 Hand Hygiene: Wash, Rinse, Repeat Performance Improvement Module
Research
- 2025 An Atypical Case of RSV in an Asplenic Patient
- 2025 Juvenile Granulosa Cell Tumor: A Case Report
- 2025 Prolonged Neonatal Jaundice Secondary to Gilbert Syndrome
- 2024 Holoprosencephaly on Ring Chromosome 18: A Case Report
- 2024 Pyomyositis Caused by Coccidioides in a 15-Year-Old Male
- 2024 A Rare Case of Staghorn Calculus in a Pediatric Patient
- 2024 Scapular Winging in a Newborn: A Case Report- Best case report
- 2024 A Family With Factor VII Deficiency: A Possible Autosomal Dominant Transmission
- 2023 Outcomes of a vesicostomy in a newborn with Urosepsis Secondary to anterior Urethral Valves
- 2023 A rare Case of Incomplete Kawasaki disease in a 2-month-old infant
- 2023 Presentation and management of Early-onset catatonia in an Adolescent
- 2022 Newborn Blood Cultures contaminated with Kocuria Kristinae-Southern San Joaquin Valley research forum
- 2022 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in a Newborn - Southern San Joaquin Valley research forum
- 2022 Rare Case of Idiopathic Rhabdomyolysis in a 3-Month-Old Infant with Multiorgan Dysfunction- Southern San Joaquin Valley research forum
- 2020 A rare presentation of HSP as a hemorrhagic bullous lesion in an adolescent
- 2009-2012 St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI A quality improvement initiative on nosocomial infection and morbidity on very low birth weight infants
- 2003-2006 The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, India Etiological profile of pyrexia of unknown origin in children between 1 month to 12years
Timeline
Chief, Pediatrics
Kern Medical center
01.2019 - Current
Clinical Assistant professor
St Mary's hospital
12.2016 - 06.2019
Assistant Medical Director
Bon Secours Health System
07.2012 - 11.2016
Assistant Medical Director
Cox Health and medical centre
01.2012 - 01.2016
Pediatric consultant
Life care hospital
07.2006 - 05.2009
Medical director
NICU
01.2006 - 01.2009
Chief Resident
Institute of child health
01.2003 - 01.2006
Residential Medical officer
SMS Hospital
01.1999 - 06.2003
Chief Medical officer
primary health care center
01.1999 - 01.2003
Board certification - obesity medicine
Board Certification - Pediatric Medicine
Pediatric residency - undefined
St John medical center
Pediatric residency - undefined
Institute of child health
Bachelor of Science - undefined
The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Stanley Medical College
Board Certification - Pediatric Hospital Medicine
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