Raysa C. Morales Demori, M.D, FAAP
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Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Pediatrics-Critical Care
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
- Assistant Professor
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Pulmonary Section in the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
2019-Present
Addresses
- Texas Children's Hospital - Legacy Tower (Office)
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6651 Main Street
MCE 1420
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-6230
Fax: (832) 826-4252
Raysa.MoralesDemori@bcm.edu
- Texas Children's Hospital - Legacy Tower (Hospital)
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6651 Main Street
MCE 1420
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-6230
Fax: (832) 826-4252
Raysa.MoralesDemori@bcm.edu
Education
- Clinical Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine
- 06/2017 - Houston, Texas United States
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Clinical Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine
- 06/2019 - Houston, Texas United States
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Residency at University of Illinois College of Medicine
- 06/2014 - Chicago, Illinois United States
- Pediatrics
- MD from Universidad Central de Venezuela
- 11/2008 - Caracas, Venezuela
- Postdoctoral Training at Baylor College of Medicine
- 02/2020 - Houston, Texas United States
- PFCCS Instructor Course
Certifications
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Medical license
- Texas Medical Board
- Pediatric Cardiology
- American Board of Pediatrics
- Critical Care
- American Board of Pediatrics
Honors & Awards
- Outstanding Senior Resident Award
- Children's Hospital of the University of Illinois at Chicago (01/2014)
- Outstanding Research in Residency Award
- Children's Hospital of the University of Illinois at Chicago (01/2014)
- Outstanding achievement in Student Teaching Morning Lecture Program Award
- Children's Hospital of the University of Illinois at Chicago (01/2013 - 01/2014)
- Organizer
- 2019
- Pediatric Critical Care Summit of the Americas
- Clinical Mentor
- Clinical mentor to cardiac intensive care unit instructors and advanced practice providers.
- Texas Children's Hospital
- Clinical Research Student
- Clinical research student to pediatric residents and physician assistant students.
- Texas Children's Hospital
- Medical Director
- Medical director of weekly Cardiac Intensive Care Pre-Surgical Case Conference. Review in a weekly basis surgical cases with cardiac intensive care unit instructors and discuss/review surgical planning, case challenges, and postoperative outcomes
- Texas Children's Hospital (10/2021 - 04/2023)
- Journal Paper Reviewer
- - Pediatric Drugs (March 2022) - Pediatrics (November 2021, June 2022) - Pediatric cardiology (November 2021) - Congenital Anomalies Journal (February 2021) - Clinical Case Reports (September 2020) - World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (September 2020) - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (June 2020) - Pediatric Pulmonology (February 2020)
Websites
Professional Development
- Outcomes comparison of patients with Scimitar Syndrome with and without pulmonary hypertension
- Conference (Presenter, 2022)
- Sponsor: International Society for Lung and Lung transplantation
- Outcomes of ECMO support in PH patient with COVID-19 infection: Multicenter experience
- Conference (Presenter, 2022)
- Sponsor: Pulmonary Hypertension Association
- Outcomes of Hospitalized Children with Turner Syndrome and Congenital Heart Disease
- Conference (Presenter, 2016)
- Sponsor: American Academy of Pediatrics
- Three Decade Period Review of Fitness Level Among Chicago Healthy Children
- Conference (Presenter, 2015)
- Sponsor: American Academy of Pediatrics
- Hemodynamic response to treadmill exercise test by ethnicity: The first report on Hispanic population
- Conference (Presenter, 2013)
- Sponsor: 74th National Congress of the Italian Society of Cardiology
- Attenuation of the Side Effect Profile of Regadenoson: Randomized Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Study with Aminophylline in Patients with Severe Chronic Kidney Disease Undergoing Myocardial Perfusion Imaging - TheASSUAGE-CKD Trial
- Conference (Presenter, 2012)
- Sponsor: American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
- Attenuation of The Side Effect Profile of Regadenoson: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study with Aminophylline in Patients Undergoing Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. “THE ASSUAGE TRIAL
- Conference (Presenter, 2011)
- Sponsor: American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
- Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma: About a case
- Conference (Presenter, 2006)
- Sponsor: XIII National Conference for Medical Students
- Outcomes of COVID-19 infection in pediatric patients with pulmonary hypertension: a single-center experience
- Conference (Presenter, 2021)
- Sponsor: Texas Medical Center Pulmonary Hypertension Consortium
- Echocardiogram in patients with pulmonary hypertension and COVID: Case review
- Conference (Presenter, 2020)
- Sponsor: Texas Children's Hospital
- Cardiac catheterization presentation of a case report
- Conference (Presenter, 2020)
- Sponsor: Mechanical support conference
- Cardiac catheterization interpretation
- Conference (Presenter, 2021)
- Sponsor: Texas Children's Hospital
- Pediatric Critical Care Fellow's Lecture
- Core Physiology: Cardiac Catheterization
- Conference (Presenter, 2021)
- Sponsor: Texas Children's Hospital
- Audience: Pediatric critical care fellow and Cardiac intensive care unit Advance Providers. 03/11/2021;09/10/2021
- Epidemiology of Pediatric Heart Failure in the USA-a 15-Year Multi-Institutional Study
- Conference (Presenter, 2021)
- Sponsor: Texas Children’s Hospital
- Critical Care Medicine Research Conference
- Echocardiogram in patients with pulmonary hypertension in patient with pulmonary embolism: Case Review
- Conference (Presenter, 2020)
- La experiencia del Texas Children’s Hospital en los eventos de Respuesta Rápida
- Conference (Presenter, 2021)
- Sponsor: Congreso Internacional de Pediatria Monterrey
- Virtual
- Hipertension Pulmonar
- Conference (Presenter, 2020)
- Sponsor: Heart Center International Webinar, Texas Children's Hospital
- 14th Virtual International Conference Neonatal & Childhood Pulmonary Vascular Disease
- Conference (Participant, 2021)
- Virtual
- The 10th Congress of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive & Critical Care Societies
- Conference (Participant, 2020)
- National Research Mentor Training Workshop
- Workshop (Participant, 2020)
- 9th Annual Virtual Scientific Sessions of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative
- Conference (Participant, 2020)
Selected Publications
- Morales-Demori, R "Congenital heart disease and cardiac procedural outcomes in patients with trisomy 21 and Turner syndrome." 2016 Dec 12; Pubmed PMID: 28736822
- Morales-Demori R, Montañes E, Erkonen G, Chance M, Anders M, Denfield S "Epidemiology of Pediatric Heart Failure in the USA-A 15-Year Multi-Institutional Study." 2021 Apr 19; Pubmed PMID: 33871685
- Flores S, Villarreal EG, Lee B, Morales-Demori R, Farias JS, Ahmed M, Loomba RS, Savorgnan F "Impact of surfactant when utilized during pediatric cardiac surgery admissions: analysis of a nationwide database." 2021 Jun 17; Pubmed PMID: 34139955
- Puri K, Morales-Demori R, Gorgis N, Bernardo E, Hipp D "Pediatric Critical Care Medicine- Intensive Training for intensive Care!." 2017 Dec 27;
- Coleman RD, Morales-Demori R, Coulson J, Romer LH. "Under Pressure - The Pulmonary Vasculature and its Role in the Pediatric CICU." 2021 Jun 21; Pubmed PMID: 34153208
- Morales-Demori R, Jamil O, Serratto M "Trend of Endurance Level Among Healthy Inner-City Children and Adolescents Over Three Decades." 2017 Jan 1; Pubmed PMID: 27826713
- Rangel, MO., Morales Demori, R., Voll, ST., Wassouf, M., Dick, R., Doukky, R "Severe chronic kidney disease as a predictor of benefit from aminophylline administration in patients undergoing regadenoson stress myocardial perfusion imaging: A substudy of the ASSUAGE and ASSUAGE-CKD trials." 2015 Oct 1; Pubmed PMID: 25500799
- Ballany, W., Mansour, K., Morales Demori, R., Al-Amoodi, M., Doukky, R "The impact of regimented aminophylline use on extracardiac radioisotope activity in patients undergoing regadenoson stress SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: A substudy of the ASSUAGE trial." 2014 Jun; Pubmed PMID: 24519563
- Doukky, R., Rangel, MO., Wassouf, M., Dick, R., Alqaid, A., Morales Demori, R "The Safety and Tolerability of Regadenoson in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease: The First Prospective Evaluation." 2013 Apr; Pubmed PMID: 23239416
- Rangel, MO., Morales Demori, R., Doukky, R "Age and Gender as Predictors of Benefit From Aminophylline Administration in Patients Undergoing Regadenoson Stress Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: A Substudy of the ASSUAGE Trial." 2013 Nov; Pubmed PMID: 24100259
- Doukky, R., Morales Demori, R., Jain, S., Kiriakos, R., Mwansa, V., Calvin, JE "Attenuation of The Side Effect Profile of Regadenoson: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Study with Aminophylline in Patients Undergoing Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. “THE ASSUAGE TRIAL"." 2012 Jun; Pubmed PMID: 22395779
- Seymor E, Mallory GB, Morales-Demori R "Surgical and Cardiac Cateterization Outcomes of Scimitar Syndrome Patients: A Three Decade Single-Center Experience." 2022;
- Morales-Demori R, Mallory GB, Chartan C, Coleman R, Ruiz F, Villafranco N, Whalen E, Varghese N. "Outcomes of COVID-19 Infection in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension: A single-center experience." 2021 Aug 30; Pubmed PMID: 34460150
- Raysa Morales-Demori, Ryan Coleman, George B Mallory "Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension." Pediatr Rev. 2024 May 1;45(5):251-259. Pubmed PMID: 38689108
Projects
- Outcomes of Pediatric heart transplant patients and pulmonary hypertension- multi-institutional study
- Baylor College of Medicine Pediatrics
- Houston
- Retrospective Study
- Outcomes of pediatric hypertension patients who undergo lung transplantation: Single center experience
- Baylor College of Medicine Pediatrics
- Houston, TX
- Retrospective Study
- Characteristics and outcomes of heart transplantation recipients: Single Center experience
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, TX
- Retrospective study
Memberships
- Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (TCH)
- Member
- Heart Center simulation educational group
- Member
- Texas Children's Hospital
- PFCCS Instructor
- Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Educational Group
- Member
Funding
- Educational Scholarship Awards
- $15,000.00 Grant funding from Texas Children's Hospital
- 2022
Languages
Spanish
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