Aditee Ambardekar, M.D.

Biography

Aditee Parag Ambardekar, M.D., is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She serves as the department’s Residency Program Director and conducts her clinical practice at Parkland Memorial Hospital and Children’s Medical Center Dallas. She specializes in pediatric burn anesthesia.

Dr. Ambardekar earned her medical degree at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed a residency in anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania and received advanced training in pediatric anesthesiology through a fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology in both anesthesiology and pediatric anesthesiology, Dr. Ambardekar joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2014. 

Her research interests include pediatric burn anesthesia, medical education, and simulation-based education. She is heavily involved in anesthesiology education at the national level – as a volunteer with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as a member (2016–2020) and chair (2020–2023) of the Anesthesiology Review Committee, and as an applied examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology. She is an active member of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia and sits on the Board of Directors for the society (2022–2026).

Dr. Ambardekar works collaboratively with other anesthesiology education researchers across the country to impact graduate medical education.

She holds the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management’s Distinguished Teaching Professorship.