## About

Vishakha Sabharwal, MBBS, is a board-certified pediatric infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center (BMC). Dr. Sabharwal is also a clinical associate professor of pediatrics and an associate program director of the Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Fellowship program at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. In addition to inpatient consults, Dr. Sabharwal sees patients in the International and Refugee ...  Clinic and TB clinic. Her research includes perinatal infections especially viral infections like HCV and SARS–Cov2 transmission from mother to infant. 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. She has extensive experience as a clinical researcher, has participated in vaccine and drug trials, and has received funding from the Shereta Seelig Charitable Foundation Trust and the National Institutes of Health. She is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatrics Infectious Disease Society, the Medical Society of the State of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Infectious Disease Society.Read More



 

 

 

 

- ### Departments
    
    [Infectious Diseases (Pediatrics)](/departments/pediatric-specialty-care/infectious-diseases-pediatrics), [Travel and International Health (Pediatrics)](/departments/travel-and-international-health-pediatrics), [Tuberculosis Clinic](/departments/infectious-diseases/tuberculosis-clinic)
- ### Specialties
    
    Pediatric infectious diseases, perinatal infections, HCV, SARS-Cov2, ear infection
- ### Pronouns
    
    She/Her
 
 

- ### Contact
    
     [617.414.4841](tel:617.414.4841)
- ### Primary Location
    
     801 Massachusetts Ave.  
    7th Floor  
    Boston, MA 02118
 
 

 



 

 

- ### Administrative Title
    
    Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics | Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine at Boston University | Boston Medical Center Associate Program Director, Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program | Boston Medical Center
- ### Residency
    
     Pediatrics, Nassau University Medical Center, 2001-2004
- ### Fellowship
    
     Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital/Boston Medical Center Program A, 2004-2008
- ### Education
    
    Government Medical College Patiala India, 1998  
    Nassau University Medical Center, NY, 2004  
    Boston University Medical Center, 2008
- ### Board Certifications
    
     American Board of Pediatrics: Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
- ### Research Interests
    
     Her research expertise is in the fields of Otitis media pathogenesis prevention and treatment, experimental otitis media modeling, development of novel methods of trans-tympanic delivery of antibiotics to treat otitis media, and treatment of biofilms on Tympanostomy tubes.
 
 

 

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  ## Affiliations

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