Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BS, Stella Maris College, 1981
• MSc, Madurai Kamaraj University, School of Biological Sciences, 1983
• PhD, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1991
• MD, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1996

Training

• Pediatric Resident, Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, 1997 - 2000

Licensure and Board Certification

• 1997 - PresMO
• 2000 - PresAmerican Board of Pediatrics
• 2019 - PresPediatric Hospital Medicine

Honors and Awards

• Certificate of Honor, WHO/TDR International Workshop, Genetic Engineering Techniques in Tropical Diseases Research, 1984
• Madurai Kamaraj University, Second in Graduating Class, M.Sc., 1984
• Outstanding Academic Achievement, St. Louis University, 1987
• Dr. Robert M. Woolsey Award, Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Neuroscience, 1994
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 1995
• Research poster winner, Academic Hospital Medicine Leadership Summit, Safe procedural sedation for radiological studies using propofol by a pediatric hospitalist team, 2010
• Medical student teaching award (voted on by the students at the end of each 5-week clerkship block to recognize the most outstanding teaching that they experienced during their time on Pediatrics), 2018
• Second Place Award for poster presented at 2019 Patient safety symposium sponsored by WUSM, SLCH and BJH, 2019
• Third Place award for poster presented at the PSQ Symposium, Leveraging Quality Improvement to Affect Change: Building High Reliability Within an Academic Medica, 2020
• Barbara R. Cole Quality Award for my inter professional team who successfully implemented a quality improvement project to reduce blood culture contamination in the emergency department, 2020
• Medical student teaching award (voted on by the students at the end of each 5-week clerkship block to recognize the most outstanding teaching that they experienced during their time on Pediatrics), 2021
• Children's Direct Triple Crown Winner--Award that recognizes an individual that exemplifies the Superior Patient Experience attributes of safe care, good clinical management of the patient and exceptional service., 2022

Recent Publications view all (25)

Publication Co-Authors

Shobha Bhaskar, M.D.

Gregory A. Storch, M.D.

Cassandra M. Pruitt, M.D., FAAP

Kevin O'Bryan, M.D.

Andrea Coverstone, M.D.

Anthony W. Orvedahl, M.D., Ph.D.

Cori Grant

Avraham Beigelman, M.D.

Michael P. Turmelle, M.D.

Sarah Bram M.D.

Kevin T. Barton, M.D.

Leanne DePalma, M.D.

Washington University has a long tradition of collaboration amongst colleagues.The faculty above have co-authored publications with Mythili Srinivasan, M.D., Ph.D.

1. Beigelman A, Srinivasan M, and Goss CW, and Wang J et al. Azithromycin to Prevent Recurrent Wheeze Following Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis. NEJM Evidence . 2022;1(4). doi:1(4): EVIDoa2100069.  
2. Shadman KA, Srinivasan M. Continuous Versus Bolus Feeds in Bronchiolitis: Is it Time to Stop the Debate? Hosp Pediatr. 2022;12(1):e44-e47. PMID:34927676 
3. Bram S, Schmidt TM, Lloyd JP, Ellsworth S, Quayle K, Srinivasan M. Use of a Sterile Collection Process to Reduce Contaminated Peripheral Blood Cultures. Hosp Pediatr. 2021;11(11):1205-1216. PMID:34702722 
4. Srinivasan M, Bacharier LB, Goss CW, Zhou Y, Boomer J, Bram S, Burgdorf D, Burnham CA, Casper T, Castro M, Coverstone A, Haslam M, Kanchongkittiphon W, Kuklinski C, Lian Q, Schechtman K, Storch GA, True K, Wallace MA, Yin-DeClue H, Ahrens E, Wang J, Beigelman A. The azithromycin to prevent wheezing following severe RSV bronchiolitis-II clinical trial: Rationale, study design, methods, and characteristics of study population. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2021;22:100798. PMCID:PMC8219746  PMID:34189338 
5. Farrell M, Bram S, Gu H, Mathew S, Messer E, Hayes E, Srinivasan M. Impact of Contaminated Blood Cultures on Children, Families, and the Health Care System. Hosp Pediatr. 2020;10(10):836-843. PMID:32878937 
6. Mathew S, Srinivasan M. Knowledge Base and Perceptions of Inpatient Providers and Parents About Influenza Vaccination in Hospitalized Children. Glob Pediatr Health. 2020;7:2333794X20947933. PMCID:PMC7425246  PMID:32851120 
7. Srinivasan M, Huntman J, Nelson M, Mathew S. Use of Peer Comparison, Provider Education, and Electronic Medical Record Triggers to Increase Influenza Vaccination Rates in Hospitalized Children. Hosp Pediatr. 2020;10(1):76-83. PMID:31818868 
8. Srinivasan M, Niesen A, Storch GA. Enterovirus D68 Surveillance, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2016. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018;24(11):2115-2117. PMCID:PMC6199992  PMID:30334718 
9. Srinivasan M, Casper TJ. Nasogastric Hydration for Bronchiolitis: Sustaining Change in Practice. Glob Pediatr Health. 2018;5:2333794X18759398. PMCID:PMC5833212  PMID:29511709 
10. Srinivasan M, Pruitt C, Casey E, Dhaliwal K, DeSanto C, Markus R, Rosen A. Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase the Use of Nasogastric Hydration in Infants With Bronchiolitis. Hosp Pediatr. 2017;7(8):436-443. PMID:28679563 
11. Rangel SJ, Anderson BR, Srivastava R, Shah SS, Ishimine P, Srinivasan M, Bryan M, Gong W, Hall M, Localio R, Luan X, Anandalwar S, Keren R, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network. Intravenous Versus Oral Antibiotics for the Prevention of Treatment Failure in Children With Complicated Appendicitis: Has the Abandonment of Peripherally Inserted Catheters Been Justified? Ann Surg. 2016. PMID:27429024 
12. Orvedahl A, Padhye A, Barton K, O'Bryan K, Baty J, Gruchala N, Niesen A, Margoni A, Srinivasan M. Clinical Characterization of Children Presenting to the Hospital with Enterovirus D68 Infection During the 2014 Outbreak in St. Louis. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2016;35(5):481-7. PMID:26771663 
13. Srinivasan M, Hamvas C, Coplen D. Rates of Complications After Newborn Circumcision in a Well-Baby Nursery, Special Care Nursery, and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2015;54(12):1185-91. PMID:25724993 
14. Srinivasan M, Bhaskar S, Carlson DW. Variation in Procedural Sedation Practices Among Children's Hospitals. Hosp Pediatr. 2015;5(3):148-53. doi:10.1542/hpeds.2014-0090  PMID:25732988 
15. Keren R, Shah SS, Srivastava R, Rangel S, Bendel-Stenzel M, Harik N, Hartley J, Lopez M, Seguias L, Tieder J, Bryan M, Gong W, Hall M, Localio R, Luan X, deBerardinis R, Parker A, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings Network. Comparative effectiveness of intravenous vs oral antibiotics for postdischarge treatment of acute osteomyelitis in children. JAMA Pediatr. 2015;169(2):120-8. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.2822  PMID:25506733 
16. Srinivasan M, Carlson DW. Procedural sedation by pediatric hospitalists: analysis of the nature and incidence of complications during ketamine and nitrous oxide sedation. Hosp Pediatr. 2013;3(4):342-7. doi:10.1542/hpeds.2013-0025  PMID:24435192 
17. Srinivasan M, Carlson DW. A proposed mechanism to assess knowledge of pediatric hospitalists to identify and manage rare events during procedural sedation. Hosp Pediatr. 2013;3(4):381-5. doi:10.1542/hpeds.2013-0045  PMID:24435198 
18. Paciorkowski N, Pruitt C, Lashly D, Hrach C, Harrison E, Srinivasan M, Turmelle M, Carlson D. Development of performance tracking for a pediatric hospitalist division. Hosp Pediatr. 2013;3(2):118-28. PMID:24340412 
19. Srinivasan M, Turmelle M, Depalma LM, Mao J, Carlson DW. Procedural sedation for diagnostic imaging in children by pediatric hospitalists using propofol: analysis of the nature, frequency, and predictors of adverse events and interventions. J Pediatr. 2012;160(5):801-806.e1. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.11.003  PMID:22177990 
20. Nagao Y, Srinivasan M, Platero JS, Svendrowski M, Waheed A, Sly WS. Mitochondrial carbonic anhydrase (isozyme V) in mouse and rat: cDNA cloning, expression, subcellular localization, processing, and tissue distribution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1994;91(22):10330-4. PMCID:PMC45013  PMID:7937950 
21. Srinivasan M, Lenny N, Green M. Identification of genomic sequences that mediate the induction of the endoplasmic reticulum stress protein, ERp72, by protein traffic. DNA Cell Biol. 1993;12(9):807-22. doi:10.1089/dna.1993.12.807  PMID:8216852 
22. Srinivasan M, Green M. Protein disulfide isomerase endoplasmic reticulum proteins Pharmaceutical Tech. 1992;515:32-36. 
23. Haugejorden SM, Srinivasan M, Green M. The expression of murine protein disulfide isomerase in Escherichia coli. DNA Cell Biol. 1992;11(5):405-14. doi:10.1089/dna.1992.11.405  PMID:1605862 
24. Haugejorden SM, Srinivasan M, Green M. Analysis of the retention signals of two resident luminal endoplasmic reticulum proteins by in vitro mutagenesis. J Biol Chem. 1991;266(10):6015-8. PMID:2007562 
25. Mazzarella RA, Srinivasan M, Haugejorden SM, Green M. ERp72, an abundant luminal endoplasmic reticulum protein, contains three copies of the active site sequences of protein disulfide isomerase. J Biol Chem. 1990;265(2):1094-101. PMID:2295602