Kavitha Yaddanapudi, MD

Chief, Cardiothoracic Imaging Division
Associate Professor, Medical Imaging (Clinical Scholar Track)
Program Director, Cardiothoracic Imaging Fellowship
Medical Imaging Discipline Director

Dr. Yaddanapudi is a fellowship trained Cardiothoracic and Nuclear medicine radiologist who is double boarded in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. After completing four years of fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Radiology and Internal Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital. She also served as Co-Chief of Thoracic Imaging at Stony Brook. Her clinical and research interests are Cardiac Sarcoidosis, PET CT and PET MRI imaging of Sarcoidosis and Interstitial lung disease.

Research Interests:

Cardiac Sarcoidosis, PET CT and PET MRI imaging of Sarcoidosis and Interstitial lung disease

Honors and Awards

• 2018 Best Clinical Conundrum Presentation at Annual Society Thoracic Radiology
• 2013 Cleveland Clinic Caregivers Celebrations Award
• 1998 Pfizer Scroll of Honor for Best Student Final MBBS Year
• 1998 Dr. C. Sita Devi Endowment Medal for Best Student of the Batch of 1998
• 1998 Sri Ramachandrula Hanumantha Rao Scholarship for Highest Marks in Final MBBS

Residency

GBPant Hospital, New Delhi, India

Fellowship

Cleveland Clinic, Nuclear Medicine Fellowship, Cleveland, OH, 2010 - 2011
Cleveland Clinic, Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship, Cleveland, OH, 2011 - 2012
Cleveland Clinic, Thoracic Imaging Fellowship, Cleveland, OH, 2012 - 2013
Cleveland Clinic, Musculoskeletal Imaging Fellowship, Cleveland, OH, 2013 - 2014
Cleveland Clinic, Nuclear Medicine Fellowship, Cleveland, OH, 7/1/2014 - 9/25/2014

Select Publications

2020

Mushtaq, R., U. Jayagurunathan, H. Arif, and K. Yaddanapudi, "Pulmonary MRI: Applications and Use Cases", Current Pulmonology Reports, 12/2020.

Nyquist, A., R. Mushtaq, F. Gill, and K. Yaddanapudi, "High Resolution Computer Tomography Evaluation of Interstitial Lung Disease for the Pulmonologist", Current Pulm Reports, vol. 9(2):1-12, 12/2020.

Mushtaq, R., U. Jayagurunathan, H. Arif-Tiwari, and K. Yaddanapudi, "Pulmonary MRI: Applications and Use Cases", Current Pulm Reports, vol. 9, 12/20320, 2020.

Bhattacharji, P., W. Moore, and K. Yaddanapudi, "Keratin 17 is an imaging biomarker in lung cancers.", J Thorac Dis, vol. 12, issue 9, pp. 5062-5066, 2020 Sep. PMCID: PMC7578507

Filice, R. W., A. Stein, C. C. Wu, V. A. Arteaga, S. Borstelmann, R. Gaddikeri, M. Galperin-Aizenberg, R. R. Gill, M. C. Godoy, S. B. Hobbs, et al., "Crowdsourcing pneumothorax annotations using machine learning annotations on the NIH chest X-ray dataset.", J Digit Imaging, vol. 33, issue 2, pp. 490-496, 2020 04. PMCID: PMC7165201

2017

Lenge, VV., AO. Zurick, and K. Yaddanapudi, Cardiac and pulmonary sarcoidosis presenting as syncopal episode: Report of two cases, 2017.

2016

Thompson, C. M., J. H. Yanof, J. Wiegert, J. Bullen, N. Obuchowski, K. Yaddanapudi, and S. S. Halliburton, "A pilot study of patient-specific cardiovascular MDCT dose maps and their utility in estimating patient-specific organ and effective doses in obese patients.", J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr, vol. 10, issue 3, pp. 265-8, 2016 May-Jun.

Rogers, SC., OA. O'Connor, G. Granati, and K. Yaddanapudi, "The First Case of Primary Cardiac Lymphoma, Diffuse Large B-Cell Type, Successfully Treated with EPOCH-R", Blood, vol. 128, issue 22, 2016.

Feldmann, G. Parnes, and K. Yaddanapudi, "Variability of interpretations of coronary CT in the ED: A single center experience with 5 readers and 1572 patients", Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, vol. 10, issue 2, pp. e13-e14, 04/2016.

Umairullah, L., S. Uzair, K. Saadullah, and K. Yaddanapudi, "Multisystem Radiologic Manifestations of Erdheim-Chester Disease", Case Reports in Radiology, vol. 2016, 2016.

Papadimitriou, L., P. M. Smith-Jones, C. M. S. Sarwar, C. N. Marti, K. Yaddanapudi, H. A. Skopicki, M. Gheorghiade, R. Parsey, and J. Butler, "Utility of positron emission tomography for drug development for heart failure.", Am Heart J, vol. 175, pp. 142-52, 2016 05.

Yaddanapudi, K., R. Brunken, C. D. Tan, R. E Rodriguez, and M. A. Bolen, "PET-MR Imaging in Evaluation of Cardiac and Paracardiac Masses With Histopathologic Correlation.", JACC Cardiovasc Imaging, vol. 9, issue 1, pp. 82-5, 2016 Jan.

2015