Parthak Prodhan, M.D. Pediatric Cardiologist

Clinical Biography

Dr. Parthak Prodhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and practices at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Prodhan completed his medical school training and residency from Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences Nagpur University, India (1994). He followed this with residency training in Pediatrics at Cook County Children’s Hospital, Chicago in 2001. He completed his fellowship training in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston in 2002.

Dr. Prodhan joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas Children’s Hospital in 2004 and currently works as a pediatric intensivist in the Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Critical Care. He is board certified in Pediatric Critical Care and General Pediatrics. He is a member of many national and international organizations, including The Society of Critical Care Medicine, The American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Society for Pediatric Research/ Pediatric Academy of Sciences. He is also an active member of multi-institutional consortiums working to improve care for critically ill children with heart disease.

His clinical interests include taking care of critically ill children in both the cardiac and the pediatric intensive care units. His research interests include clinical outcomes research at the institutional and multi-institutional level. His focus is in the areas of cardio-pulmonary mechanical device support and anticoagulation practices for patients on cardiopulmonary mechanical device support. He has authored more than 85 peer-reviewed publications and presented at major conferences. He is currently the Program Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Fellowship Program, Arkansas Children Hospital, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Director of Clinical Research, Heart Center, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, the Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Arkansas Children’s Hospital and is the current Chair, Item Development Editorial Board Committee, Society of Critical Care Medicine.