Ashika Chacko, MD

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Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine

Ashika Chacko, MD

Pulm/CCM PGY5

Personal Statement:

What are your hobbies and favorite activities outside of medicine?

  • Cooking, Exercise-Strength training, Writing.

What made you decide to rank UT Health San Antonio?

  • UTHSCSA will give me the best of academic medicine and unparalleled clinical exposure. Everyone I met during the interview was very welcoming.

What do you like about San Antonio? Or what are you most excited to experience in San Antonio?

  • The historical landmarks, natural attractions including the gardens, variety of activities to do and try different cuisines.

Hometown:

  • McAllen, Texas

Education

Residency: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley – Knapp Medical Center
Medical School: Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

Research

What are your clinical interests?

  • ARDS, Pulmonary Hypertension, POCUS, Quality Improvement

Quality Improvement

  • Principal Investigator in Quality Improvement project on Increasing compliance of 1- hour Sepsis bundle in Tertiary care hospital in South Texas
  • Co-Investigator in Quality Improvement project on decreasing inpatient fall rates in Tertiary care hospital in South Texas
  • Principal Investigator in Quality Improvement project on implementing and Increasing compliance rate of DKA protocol in Tertiary care hospital in South Texas
  • Co- Investigator in Quality Improvement project on improving the measurement of orthostatic vital signs in a Tertiary care Hospital in South Texas

Research Studies

  • Resident Investigator in ACTIV 4B: Randomized placebo-controlled platform trial evaluating efficacy and safety of antithrombotic strategies in COVID-19 adults not requiring hospitalization at time of diagnosis, ACTIV 4C: Prospective, multicenter, randomized double blinded trial to evaluate efficacy and safety of antithrombotic strategies in patients with COVID-19 following hospital discharge and ACTIV 1: Multicenter randomized master protocol to evaluate multiple immune modulators for treatment of moderately or severely ill patients infected with COVID-19.
  • Co-Investigator in Cross-sectional Study on Prevalence of Diabetic Ketoacidosis related hospitalization and socioeconomic disparities in a South Texas Center.

Awards & Accomplishments

What are your most recent Awards or Accomplishments?

  • Outstanding Resident of the Year 2022-2023
  • Participant Doctors Dilemma Texas ACP 2022

Publications

Presentations

  • Chacko A.A, Varghese.N.A, Kaplan A. Cystic Lung Disease Secondary to Chronic Occult Aspiration in a patient with multiple bariatric surgeries. ATS International Conference 2023, May 2023, Washington DC
  • Chacko A.A, Khan N., Bello F., Kaplan A. Subclinical Pulmonary Hemorrhage presenting as acute on chronic respiratory failure in a Hispanic woman with mixed (type II) Cryoglobulinemia. CHEST Congress 2022, June 2022, Bologna, Italy
  • Chacko A.A, Bello F. A Quality Improvement project to improve 1 hour sepsis bundle compliance in a South Texas Hospital. Texas ACP, October 2022
  • Chacko A.A, Varghese N.A. Subacute Stroke in a Young Male with Vertebrobasilar Dolichoectasia. UTRGV Research Colloquium, February 2022
  • Khan N., Chacko A.A., Fatimah Bello. Subclinical Pulmonary Hemorrhage presenting as acute on chronic respiratory failure in Hispanic women with mixed cryoglobulinemia. South Texas ACP, October 2021
  • Maknoor P.,Chacko A.A., Kolli H., Varghese.N.A. Bactrim induced BRASH syndrome in elderly female: A Case Report. Virtual Poster presented at the UTRGV Research Symposium, August 2021
  • Chacko A.A., Jafari Esfahani S., Varghese N.A. Sickle Cell Anemia in Hispanic-Americans in South Texas: Two Case Reports. Virtual Poster presented at the UTRGV Research Symposium, February 2021
  • Kolli H., Chacko A.A., Maknoor P. Khan N., Heath T. A rare case of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in an elderly lady during hospital stay. Virtual Poster presented at the UTRGV Research Symposium, February 2021
  • Khan N., Chacko A.A, Kolli H., Varghese N.A. STEC-HUS; Unusual presentation in an elderly female. Virtual Poster presented at the UTRGV Research Symposium, February 2021
  • Jafari S., Chacko A.A, Najam M., Zamudio R., Heath T., Bello F. O. Two Cases of COVID-19 Re-infection in South Texas. Poster electronically presented at South Texas ACP in October 2020.
  • Maknoor P.,Chacko A.A., Kolli H., Varghese.N.A. Bactrim induced BRASH syndrome in elderly female : A Case Report. South Texas American College of Physician Meeting, September 2021
  • Stemmer S., Chacko A.A. Effect Of GNRH Antagonist, Elagolix, On Size And Quantity Of Endometriotic Lesions Following 2 Months Of Therapy. Virtual poster presented in American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopy conference November 2019, Vancouver, Canada
  • Chacko A.A, Lobo L., Roby A., Noor S., Rajabali A. N, Kumar N. Perception regarding utility of social networking sites on academic activities among undergraduates and teaching facilities of a medical college in Mangalore. Poster presented at Manipal University Research Symposium, February 2014, Mangalore, India