JayasimhaNMurthyMDD.ABSM, FCCP(He/Him)

[Pronunciation: Ja-ya-sim-ha]

Critical Care Medicine, Interstitial Lung Diseases, Sleep Medicine

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Office
6560 Fannin St
Ste 1632
Houston, TX 77030
Phone+1 713-255-4000

Fax+1 713-255-4050

Dr. Jayasimha Murthy is a pulmonologist in Houston, TX and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Houston Methodist Hospital, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, and Kindred Hospital Houston Medical Center. He received his medical degree from St. John's Medical College and has been in practice 21 years. He specializes in critical care medicine, interstitial lung diseases, and sleep medicine and is experienced in polysomnography, sleep medicine, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and interstitial lung disease.

University of Texas HSC at HoustonMS, Clinical Research, 2007
University of Texas HSC at HoustonMS, Clinical Research, 2007
Baylor College of MedicineFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2001 - 2004
NYC Health & Hospitals/South Brooklyn HealthResidency, Internal Medicine, 1998 - 2001
St. John's Medical CollegeClass of 1996

Top Doctor in Houston Houstonia Magazine, 2015
Top Doctors:SE Texas Castle Connolly, 2013
Elected as a Fellow American College of Chest Physicians, 2009
Alfred Soffer Research Award American College of Chest Physicians, 2007
Outstanding Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow Award St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Texas Heart Institute, 2002
Gold Medal for Highest Aggregate Score in Physiology Bangalore University, 1995
Maj. Gen Bhatia Award for Highest Aggregate Score in I MBBS (MD) Exam 1990
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PubMed

198 citations
The six minute walk test accurately estimates mean peak oxygen uptake
Robert M. Ross, Jayasimha N. Murthy, Istvan D Wollak, Andrew S Jackson
BMC Pulmonary Medicine. 2010-05-26
13 citations
Hypoventilation after spinal cord injury.
Richard J. Castriotta, Jayasimha N. Murthy
Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2009-05-18
43 citations
Synaptotagmin-2 Controls Regulated Exocytosis but Not Other Secretory Responses of Mast Cells
Ernestina Melicoff, Leticia Sansores-Garcia, Alejandra Gomez, Daniel C. Moreira, Proleta Datta
The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2009-07-17

Abstracts/Posters

Mast Cell-Specific Gene Targeting.
Melicoff, E. et al., ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts, 1/1/2005
Defective Regulated Exocytosis in Mast Cells from Synaptotagmin-2 Knockout Mice.
Sansores-Garcia, L. et al., ASH Annual Meeting Abstracts, 1/1/2005

Lectures

TIRI as a novel noncontact method to monitor airflow during polysomnography.
CHEST, San Diego, CA - 1/1/2009
Interstitial Lung Diseases; A diagnostic approach. Division of Rheumatology.
UT Medical School, Houston, TX - 1/1/2008
Thermal Infra-RED Imaging in Polysomnography.
Lyon, France - 1/1/2007
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Mast cell specific gene targeting.
University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX - 1/1/2006
Advances in Mechanical Ventilation.
Houston, TX - 1/1/2006
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Other

Thermal Vision for Sleep Apnea Monitoring.
Jin, F., Pavlidis, I. & Murthy, J. N., Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, Lecture Notes in Computer Science
1/1/2009