Important Announcements

Nondiscrimination Statement Update

Boston Medical Center Health System complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), religion, culture, physical or mental disabilities, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression. BMCHS provides free aids and services to people with disabilities and free language services to people whose primary language is not English.

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Campus Construction Update

Starting September 14, we’re closing the Menino building lobby entrance. This, along with the ongoing Yawkey building entrance closure, will help us bring you an even better campus experience that matches the exceptional care you've come to expect. Please enter the Menino and Yawkey buildings through the Moakley building, and make sure to leave extra time to get to your appointment. Thank you for your patience. 

Click here to learn more about our campus redesign. 

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.
  • 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
  • Enterè rechèch

    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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