Rathinaswamy Bhavanandhan (RB) Govindan, Ph.D., MS
Director, Advanced Physiological Signals Processing Laboratory
Rathinaswamy Bhavanandhan (RB) Govindan, Ph.D., MS, is director of the Advanced Physiological Signals Processing Laboratory at Children’s National Hospital, overseeing the acquisition of high-quality signals, developing and maintaining automated analyses pipelines for processing these signals, and training end-users on the application of these analyses’ pipelines. Dr. Govindan’s team has honed several signal processing routines to address the highly prevalent artifacts in the physiological signals collected in a hostile environment of critical care monitoring.
Key Studies
| March 2026 | Asch A, Govindan RB, Bartolini E, Chirumamilla VC, Pleau C, O'Donnell M, Schlatterer SD. Skin-to-Skin Contact Significantly Impacts Maternal Anxiety, Mother-Infant Bonding, and Autonomic Function in Infants With Congenital Heart Disease and Their Mothers. Scientific Reports. 2026 Mar 13. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-43506-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41826416 | view |
| December 2025 | Ilori F, Andescavage NN, Wisner KL, Ngwa JS, Govindan RB, Limperopoulos C. The Role of Perinatal Perceived Stress in the Setting of Adverse Childhood Experience and Perinatal Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms. BMC Psychology. 2025 Dec 29;13(1):1384. doi: 10.1186/s40359-025-03628-6. PMID: 41462378; PMCID: PMC12751169 | view |
Date: April 2022
Seed M, Limperopoulos C. In Utero Brain Growth Matters for Fetuses With Congenital Heart Disease. Circulation. 2022 Apr 12;145(15):1120-1122. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.058683. Epub 2022 Apr 11. PMID: 35404677
View: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35404677
Date: January 2010
Limperopoulos C, Tworetzky W, McElhinney DB, Newburger JW, Brown DW, Robertson RL Jr, Guizard N, McGrath E, Geva J, Annese D, Dunbar-Masterson C, Trainor B, Laussen PC, du Plessis AJ. Brain Volume and Metabolism in Fetuses With Congenital Heart Disease: Evaluation With Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy. Circulation. 2010 Jan 5;121(1):26-33. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.865568. Epub 2009 Dec 21. PMID: 20026783; PMCID: PMC2819908
View: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2819908
Date: February 2024
Wu Y, De Asis-Cruz J, Limperopoulos C. Brain Structural and Functional Outcomes in the Offspring of Women Experiencing Psychological Distress During Pregnancy. Molecular Psychiatry. 2024 Jul;29(7):2223-2240. doi: 10.1038/s41380-024-02449-0. Epub 2024 Feb 28. PMID: 38418579; PMCID: PMC11408260
View: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38418579
Date: April 2022
Wu Y, Espinosa KM, Barnett SD, Kapse A, Quistorff JL, Lopez C, Andescavage N, Pradhan S, Lu YC, Kapse K, Henderson D, Vezina G, Wessel D, du Plessis AJ, Limperopoulos C. Association of Elevated Maternal Psychological Distress, Altered Fetal Brain, and Offspring Cognitive and Social-Emotional Outcomes at 18 Months. JAMA Network Open. 2022 Apr 1;5(4):e229244. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.9244. PMID: 35486403; PMCID: PMC9055453
View: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35486403