Dechu Ponnappa Puliyanda

MBBS: Mysore Medical College

Residency: Rush Presbyterian St. Luke Medical Center

Fellowship: Childrens hospital, Harvard Medical School

Biographical Summary

Dechu Puliyanda, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics at Cedars Sinai Medical Center as well as UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She is the director of Pediatric Nephrology and Transplant Immunology at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center.

Her areas of expertise:

-Use of biomarkers to determine kidney transplant rejection

-Transplantation of the highly sensitized, difficult to transplant pediatric patients

-Viral infection following transplantation

-Transplantation of the very young pediatric recipients

Dechu Puliyanda has won numerous accolades throughout her career. She was a Gold Medalist from Mysore Medical College. During residency she won the best intern award. She has won numerous awards for her exceptional teaching of medical students, residents and fellows. More recently she was the recipient of the Benjamin Kagan award for outstanding contribution to patient care, research and teaching.

After her completion of her fellowship at Harvard medical school, she joined Cedars Sinai Medical center in 2000. Her research here has focused on viral infection in the post-transplant period and surrogate markers for renal transplant rejection.

She is a world-renowned speaker and is regularly invited to speak at a number of national and international conferences. She is the author of several high impact peer-reviewed publications in prestigious medical journals. In addition, she has a very strong commitment to providing comprehensive care to children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease.

Dr. Puliyanda is a member of the American Society of Transplantation, International Pediatric Transplantation association, American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Pediatric nephrology to name a few.