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Best in Northern CA

We're ranked #1 in pediatric cancer, heart surgery, cardiology & more.

Malini Mahendra

MD

Pediatric critical care specialist

About me

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Education

UCLA, MD, 2012
Residencies

UCSF, 2015
Fellowships

UCSF, 2019
Academic Title

Assistant Professor

Clinics I work with

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Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

San Francisco / Oakland

Selected research

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Variation in Arterial and Central Venous Catheter Use in Pediatric Intensive Care Units.
Journal of intensive care medicine
September 2020
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Predicting NICU admissions in near-term and term infants with low illness acuity.
Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association
July 2020
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