Dr. Ruchita Negi

(757) 668-7238
Practice
Board Certifications

American Board of Pediatrics

Education

Medical School: Lady Hardinge Medical College

Residency: Metrohealth Medical Center

Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic Children's

Bio

Dr. Negi completed her pediatric residency from Case Western Reserve University MetroHealth in Cleveland, Ohio, and her fellowship training from Cleveland Clinic Children's, also in Ohio. She also completed a pediatric residency at a bustling tertiary care hospital in New Delhi, India, which significantly enhanced her expertise, particularly in tropical infectious diseases.

In her free time, Dr. Negi enjoys spending time with her family, exploring parks, hiking trails, and discovering new adventures together.

Research Areas
  • Diagnostic stewardship
  • C. difficile infection 
Clinical Interests
  • C. difficile infection
  • Infection prevention 
Honors and Awards

Ellen and Steven Ross Fellowship Research Award July 2022: Internal grant awarded through competitive selection to support meritorious fellowship research projects undertaken by fellow trainees at Cleveland Clinic Pediatric Institute. Grant award of $15,000 for the research titled “Is laxative use associated with low yield testing of C. Difficile.”

Intramural Research Grant at University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, for study entitled “Oral Zinc supplementation for Acute Dehydrating Diarrhea in children older than 5 years.”

Gold Medal, Clinical Research V. Balagopal Endowment Raju Award for Child Health for oral presentation for paper entitled "Oral Zinc supplementation for acute dehydrating diarrhea in children older than 5 years - A randomized controlled trial " at National Conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics held at Kolkata, India in 01/2013

ID Week Trainee Abstract Travel Award for conference in Boston, 2023.

Publications

Publications:

  1. Negi R, Dewan P, Shah D, Das S, Bhatnagar S, Gupta P. Oral zinc supplements are ineffective for treating acute dehydrating diarrhoea in 5-12-year-olds. Acta Paediatr. 2015 Aug;104(8):e367-71. PMID: 24673165
  2. Negi R, Shabab J, Esper F. The RSV roadmap in children: Lessons learned, paths forward. Accepted and in press. 

Posters:

  1. Negi R, Dewan P. (August 2013). Oral zinc supplements are ineffective for treating acute dehydrating diarrhea in 5-12-year-olds. Poster presented at: 27th Congress of International Pediatric Association; Melbourne, Australia.
  2. Negi R. Poster presented at St. Jude's PIDS immunocompromised conference, 3/2023. "Prolonged fevers with Pulmonary nodules in a Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant patient". 
  3. Poster presented at ID week, Boston 2023. Negi R, Deshpande A, Arakoni V, Foster CB "C. difficile testing following 18,706 Pediatric procedures: Implications for diagnostic stewardship"
Community Involvement
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Society
  • Infectious Disease Society America