Manaswitha Khare, M.D.

Bio

Dr. Manaswitha Khare is a pediatric hospitalist at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and an associate physician at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Dr. Khare completed her medical studies at Osmania Medical College in India. She then received clinical research certification at UC Irvine, where she served as a clinical research fellow, before completing her pediatric residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Elmhurst Hospital. She then completed her pediatric hospital medicine fellowship at UC San Diego in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine.

Dr. Khare is a member of the American Academy of Pediarics, AAP Section of Hospital Medicine, and the Academic Pediatric Association.

Dr. Khare is an accomplished researcher and statistician who has authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals, as well as book chapters and multiple oral and poster presentations. In 2011, she was awarded a prestigious NIH/NICHD Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network Training Grant Award that looked at exploring novel therapies for Prader-Willi syndrome. She has a special interest in the field of childhood obesity. Her current work is focused on the pharmacokinetics of commonly prescribed medications in children with obesity.