Manu Raam, MD
Dr. Raam is an attending pediatrician in the Division of General Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. He focuses on the outpatient treatment of healthy children as well as children with special healthcare needs, both from local areas with socioeconomic challenges and from resource-limited international settings. He is involved in clinical care and research as part of the spina bifida clinic at CHLA.
Apart from his practice at CHLA, Dr. Raam also works at Shriners Children's Southern California, where he is the director of the osteogenesis imperfecta program, supervising the medical management of patients with genetic bone disorders such as osteogenesis imperfecta and X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets, as well as other skeletal dysplasias, and focuses on the pediatric care of patients with spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, arthrogryposis, and craniofacial conditions.
Genetic Bone Disorders
General Pediatrics
Education
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine/Case Western University School of Medicine
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, General Pediatrics
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, General Pediatrics
Accomplishments
General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
AAP-CA Chapter 2 Member
2018: AltaMed Excellence in Quality Award: 2018 Top Performing Provider (Clinical Quality)
2016: AltaMed Employee of the Month
2015: Victor E. Stork Award for continued excellence and future promise in the care of children
2014: Roberta G. Williams Outstanding Teaching Award
2014: Best Research Poster, Clinical/Community Research Section, 19th Annual Saban Research Institute Poster Session
2012: Henry F. Saunders Award in Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Hu T, Kruszka P, Martinez M, Ming J, Shabason E, Raam M, Shaikh T, Pineda-Alvarez D, Muenke M. 2018. Cytogenetics and holoprosencephaly: a chromosomal microarray study of 222 individuals with holoprosencephaly. Am J Med Genet C 178C: 175-186. PMID: 30182442.
Raam MS, Festekjian A, Elkhunovich MA. 2016. Point-of-care thoracic ultrasonography in the diagnosis and management of kaposiform lymphangiomatosis. Pediatr Emerg Care 32 (12): 888-891. PMID: 27898632.
Raam MS, Solomon BD, Muenke M. 2011. Holoprosencephaly: a guide to diagnosis and clinical management. Indian Pediatr 48 (6): 457-466. PMID: 21743112.
Solomon BD, Raam MS, Pineda-Alvarez DE. 2011. Analysis of genitourinary anomalies in patients with VACTERL (Vertebral anomalies, Anal atresia, Cardiac malformations, Tracheo-Esophageal fistula, Renal anomalies, Limb abnormalities) association. Congenit Anom (Kyoto) 51 (2): 87-91. PMID: 21235632.
Raam MS, Pineda-Alvarez DE, Hadley DW, Solomon BD. 2011. Long-term outcomes of adults with features of VACTERL association. Eur J Med Genet 54 (1): 34-41. PMID: 20888933.
Raam MS, Solomon BD, Shalev SA, Muenke M. 2010. Holoprosencephaly and craniosynostosis: A report of two siblings and review of the literature. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 154C (1): 176-182. PMID: 20104614.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Raam MS, Muenke M. 2011. Uncommon craniosynostosis syndromes: a review of thirteen conditions. In Muenke M, Kress W, Collmann H, Solomon BD (eds.), Monographs in Human Genetics (Vol. 19): Craniosynostoses: Molecular Genetics, Principles of Diagnosis, and Treatment (pp. 119-142). Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger AG.