Malini Mahendra, MD
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

I study how to improve value of care and outcomes in children. My current work is focused on quantifying the benefits and cancer risks associated with radiation-based imaging exams (e.g. CT, X-ray, Cardiac Catheterization, and Nuclear Medicine studies).

Education & Training

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• Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship University of California, San Francisco 06/2019
• Pediatrics Residency University of California, San Francisco 6/2015
• MD University of California, Los Angeles 06/2012
• BA University of California, Berkeley 06/2007

Publications (16)

Top publication keywords:
Catheterization, Central VenousExtracorporeal Membrane OxygenationIntensive Care Units, NeonatalNeoplasms, Radiation-InducedRadiometryTomography, X-Ray ComputedPediatricsCatheterization, PeripheralHospitals, PediatricDelivery of Health Care, IntegratedRespiratory InsufficiencyCentral Venous CathetersRadiation DosageHospitals, GeneralInfant

• Trends in Pediatric Imaging From 1997 to 2024 in an Integrated Health Care Setting.
  Hospital pediatrics 2026 Mahendra M, Kang T, Ferber J, Firdaus HA, Stewart C, Roland A, Li DK, Kwan ML, Miglioretti DL, Smith-Bindman R
• Medical Imaging and Pediatric and Adolescent Hematologic Cancer Risk.
  The New England journal of medicine 2025 Smith-Bindman R, Alber SA, Kwan ML, Pequeno P, Bolch WE, Bowles EJA, Greenlee RT, Stout NK, Weinmann S, Moy LM, Stewart C, Francisco M, Kofler C, Duncan JR, Ducore J, Mahendra M, Pole JD, Miglioretti …
• Quantifying and Contextualizing Radiation Doses in Common Pediatric Medical Imaging Examinations.
  Journal of pediatrics. Clinical practice 2025 Stewart C, Alber S, Mahendra M, Kofler C, Tran T, Domal S, Bowles EJA, Weinmann S, Greenlee RT, Stout NK, Pequeno P, Moy LM, Duncan JR, Pole JD, Bolch WE, Kwan ML, Miglioretti DL, Smith-Bindman R
• Cancer Risk Associated With Radiation Doses Used for CT Scans in Pediatric and General Hospitals.
  Hospital pediatrics 2025 Mahendra M, Malekhedayat MN, Chu PW, Stewart C, Wang Y, Bardach NS, Smith-Bindman R
• Projected Lifetime Cancer Risks From Current Computed Tomography Imaging.
  JAMA internal medicine 2025 Smith-Bindman R, Chu PW, Azman Firdaus H, Stewart C, Malekhedayat M, Alber S, Bolch WE, Mahendra M, Berrington de González A, Miglioretti DL

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• Representative Organ Doses from Computed Tomography (CT) Exams from a Large International Registry.
  Radiation research 2025 Chu PW, Stewart C, Kofler C, Mahendra M, Wang Y, Chu CA, Lee C, Bolch WE, Smith-Bindman R
• Dose length product to effective dose coefficients in adults.
  European radiology 2023 Chu PW, Kofler C, Haas B, Lee C, Wang Y, Chu CA, Stewart C, Mahendra M, Delman BN, Bolch WE, Smith-Bindman R
• Correction to: Dose length product to effective dose coefficients in children.
  Pediatric radiology 2023 Chu PW, Kofler C, Mahendra M, Wang Y, Chu CA, Stewart C, Delman BN, Haas B, Lee C, Bolch WE, Smith-Bindman R
• Associated radiation exposure from medical imaging and excess lifetime risk of developing cancer in pediatric patients with pulmonary hypertension.
  Pulmonary circulation 2023 Mahendra M, Chu P, Amin EK, Nawaytou H, Duncan JR, Fineman JR, Smith-Bindman R
• Dose length product to effective dose coefficients in children.
  Pediatric radiology 2023 Chu PW, Kofler C, Mahendra M, Wang Y, Chu CA, Stewart C, Delman BN, Haas B, Lee C, Bolch WE, Smith-Bindman R
• Sociodemographic factors associated with tracheostomy and mortality in bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
  Pediatric pulmonology 2023 Smith MA, Steurer MA, Mahendra M, Zinter MS, Keller RL
• Association of Ventilator Settings With Mortality in Pediatric Patients Treated With Extracorporeal Life Support for Respiratory Failure.
  ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992) 2022 Blauvelt DG, Inany HS, Furlong-Dillard JM, Bailly DK, Oishi P, Steurer MA, Mahendra M
• Impact of Different Approaches to Preparing Notes for Analysis With Natural Language Processing on the Performance of Prediction Models in Intensive Care.
  Critical care explorations 2021 Mahendra M, Luo Y, Mills H, Schenk G, Butte AJ, Dudley RA
• Variation in Arterial and Central Venous Catheter Use in Pediatric Intensive Care Units.
  Journal of intensive care medicine 2020 Mahendra M, McQuillen P, Dudley RA, Steurer MA
• Predicting NICU admissions in near-term and term infants with low illness acuity.
  Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association 2020 Mahendra M, Steurer-Muller M, Hohmann SF, Keller RL, Aswani A, Dudley RA
• Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus colonization in patients with atopic dermatitis in Sri Lanka.
  Clinical and experimental dermatology 2010 Gomes PL, Malavige GN, Fernando N, Mahendra MH, Kamaladasa SD, Seneviratne JK, Karunatilaka DH, Ogg GS