I completed my MBBS in University of Mumbai in 1991, my pediatric residency in Children’s Hospital of Michigan in 1997. After doing primary care pediatrics in South Carolina, I joined Baylor College of Medicine as a pediatric critical care fellow in 2003. After a NIH funded 4 year fellowship at Baylor, I joined as faculty at Baylor in 2007. As a clinician, I have advanced care in critically ill children with liver failure and improved peri-operative outcomes in these children, by forming a dedicated team – the Liver ICU. These efforts led to me being awarded the coveted “Outstanding Clinician Award” in pediatrics in 2016. As an educator, I have taught and mentored residents, fellows, nurses and APPs, many of whom are in academic positions here and in other institutions. In recognition of my educational and teaching activities, I received the Norton Rose Fulbright Award for Excellence in Teaching and Evaluation in 2017. As a basic science researcher, I have defined a unique bile acid-myocardial interaction, termed “cholecardia” as the basis for cirrhotic cardiomyopathy in vivo mouse models, in vitro cell cultures and in children with biliary atresia. As a clinical researcher, we have defined cirrhotic cardiomyopathy in patients with biliary atresia, which has led to new recognition of this disease and protocols which have changed management in children with cirrhosis. As a research mentor, I co-direct the Multi-Organ Dysfunction Syndrome Study Group, which mentors junior faculty members in the critical care section and provides opportunities, guidance and help in generating preliminary data to apply for extramural funding.