Vishakha Sabharwal, MD

Vishakha Sabharwal, MD is a Boston Medical Center (BMC) pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, travel health, management and treatment of TB in children and adolescents, management of children with Hepatitis C, and the medical needs of refugee and immigrant families. She is also an inpatient consultant on children with complex pediatric infectious diseases and also helps run the Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Fellowship program as an Associate Program Director. She is a co-investigator on an NIH R01 grant that studies how to prevent and treat Ear Infections and Ear Drainage and the prevention of biofilms after ear tube placement. Her research interests include perinatal infections especially viral infections like HCV and SARS–Cov2 transmission from mother to infant. Dr. Sabharwal has practiced at BMC for more than 15 years and currently is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and a faculty member at Boston University’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.