Kavitha Yaddanapudi, MD

Professor
Chief, Cardiothoracic Radiology
Fellowship Director, Cardiothoracic Imaging
Pre-Clinical Discipline Director, Radiology

Kavitha Yaddanapudi, MD, is a Professor of Radiology at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine - Tucson, Department of Medical Imaging. She is the Chief of the Cardiothoracic Radiology Division. She also serves as Director of the Cardiothoracic Imaging Fellowship Program and as the Pre-Clinical Discipline Director for Radiology.

Dr. Yaddanapudi is a Fellowship trained Cardiothoracic Radiologist Board Certified by the American Board of Radiology. 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 University in Stony Brook, NY. 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
  • Appointed to Learning to Lead Program, College of Medicine - Tucson, 2022-2023
  • George Barnes Faculty Teaching Award, University of Arizona Department of Medical Imaging, 2021
  • Best Clinical Conundrum Presentation at Annual Society Thoracic Radiology, 2018
  • Cleveland Clinic Caregivers Celebrations Award, 2013
  • 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
  • Sri Ramachandrula Hanumantha Rao Scholarship for Highest Marks in Final MBBS ,1998
Residency
  • GBPant Hospital, New Delhi, India
Fellowship
  • Thoracic Imaging: Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 2013
  • Cardiovascular Imaging: Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 2012
Board Certifications
  • American Board of Radiology

Select Publications

2024

Donovan, F. M., G. R. Thompson, J. E. Blair, R. H. Johnson, J. Malo, W. Albasha, S. G. Worrell, S. E. Beamer, K. Yaddanapudi, J. N. Galgiani, et al., "Managing Cavitary Coccidioidomycosis Expert Opinions for Improving Patient Outcomes.", Chest, 2024 Dec 14.

2023

Datta, B., A. Kumar Prakash, K. Yaddanapudi, K. Ahlawat, J. Prasad Tripathy, P. Goyal, A. Jaiswal, P. Singh, S. Pipavath, and G. Raghu, "Lung parenchymal abnormalities and outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID 19 pneumonia: A positive message from a prospective hospital-based longitudinal study for futureconsiderations.", Respir Med, vol. 213, pp. 107261, 2023 Jul. PMCID: PMC10148712 
Meng, S., A. G. Whitt, B. F. Stamp, J. W. Eaton, C. Li, and K. Yaddanapudi, "Exosome-based cancer vaccine for prevention of lung cancer.", Stem Cell Investig, vol. 10, pp. 2, 2023. PMCID: PMC9892015 

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.
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

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.
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.

2015

Yaddanapudi, K., "Differential Diagnosis in Musculoskeletal MRI", Journal of Magnet Resonance Imaging, vol. 43, issue 5, 10/2015.