Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Dedicated to improving healthcare for children in Northeast Tennessee and the surrounding Appalachian Region

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Varun Kumar, MD

Assistant Professor

EDUCATION

Medical Education: Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Residency: Brown University / Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, RI

CERTIFICATION and LICENSURE

American Board of Pediatrics Certification
Medical License, State of Tennessee

AWARDS and HONORS

Caduceus Award for M3 Outstanding Attending in Pediatrics, ETSU, 2020
Outstanding Pediatric Faculty of the Year, ETSU, 2019-2020
Scarlet Sash Society, 2021 & 2022

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Winstead, R. C., & Kumar, V. (2021). Case report on traumatic diaphragmatic hernia in an adolescent. Presented at the 2021 Tennessee State Pediatric Conference Virtual Poster Session, Franklin, TN, USA.

“Malaria Vaccine Update” Rwanda Ministry of Health Symposium on Malaria in Kigali, Rwanda. 2016


“Establishing a Pediatric Oncology Program in a resource-limited setting: the experience from Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia” American Society of Hematology (ASH) Conference, San Francisco. 2014


“Developing the First Retinoblastoma Program in Cambodia”St Jude-Viva Forum in Pediatric Oncology, Singapore. 2014.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Winstead, R. C., & Kumar, V. (2022). A 15-Year-Old Female Presenting With Traumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia One Year After a Car Accident. Cureus, 14(4).

Young BC, Earle SG, Soeng S, Sar P, Kumar V, Hor S, Sar V, Bousfield R, Sanderson ND, Barker L, Stoesser N, Emary KRW, Parry CM, Nickerson EK, Turner P, Bowden R, Crook DW, Wyllie DJ, Day NPJ, Wilson DJ, Moore CE.  (2019). Panton-Valentine leucocidin is the key determinant of Staphylococcus aureus pyomyositis in a bacterial GWAS. eLife; 8: e42486 DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42486 

Phakhounthong K, Chaovalit P, Jittamala P, Blacksell SD, Carter MJ, Turner P, Chheng K, Sona S, Kumar V, Day NPJ, White LJ, Pan-ngum W. (2018). “Predicting the severity of dengue fever in children on admission based on clinical features and laboratory indicators: application of classification tree analysis”. BMC Pediatrics; 18: 109

Moore CE, Giess A, Soeng S, Sar P, Kumar V, Nhoung P, Bousfield R, Turner P, Stoesser N, Limmathurotsakul D, Day N, Parry CM. (2016). “Characterisation of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from Cambodian children between 2007 – 2012”. PLoS ONE; 11(7): e0159358.