Ayan Rajgarhia

Biography

Ayan Rajgarhia, M.D., FAAP, is Program Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of California, Irvine, Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), and Miller Children's Hospital, and serves as Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor at UC Irvine School of Medicine. He received his M.B.B.S. from Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in Mumbai, India, completed his pediatric residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and his neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Cohen Children's Medical Center, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Rajgarhia's clinical and research interests focus on neonatal hemodynamics, point-of-care ultrasound, and quality improvement initiatives in neonatal intensive care.

Prior to joining UC Irvine and CHOC in 2024, Rajgarhia spent seven years at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, where he served as Associate Medical Director of the NICU and held faculty appointments at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, advancing from Clinical Assistant Professor to Associate Professor. His research has examined cardiac dysfunction in neonatal models of sepsis and hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension, with publications in journals including the Journal of Perinatology and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has been a member of multiple focus groups within the Children's Hospitals Neonatal Consortium, including cardiac, gastroschisis, and point-of-care ultrasound groups.

At CHOC, Rajgarhia leads the Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Program and chairs the NICU Morbidity and Mortality conference. He is a founding member of the Southern California Collaborative Neonatal Point of Care Ultrasound Workshop and serves as Page Editor for Articles of Interest for the Society of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics. Rajgarhia has presented his work at national and international meetings and serves as a peer reviewer for multiple journals including Archives of Disease in Childhood, Pediatric Research, and the American Journal of Perinatology.

Education

• M.B.B.S. in Medicine and Surgery, Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Topiwala National Medical College, B.Y.L Nair Hospital, 2010

Distinctions

• Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP)
• Department of Neonatology Awards - Rookie of the Year, 2019