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Our 500+ full-time physicians and APPs comprise the largest pediatric team in TX.

03/11/2026

UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Health today announced that Dallas-based Energy Transfer, one of the nation's largest energy infrastructure companies, and its management team have committed $15 million to support the new $5 billion Dallas ...

03/10/2026

Rachel Leon, M.D., Ph.D., has been selected to receive a Pilot and Feasibility Grant for Nutrition Obesity Research from the UT Southwestern Nutrition Obesity Research Center. The grant will support her work studying the transfer of vital nutrients needed for brain growth and their impact on the brain development of unborn babies with severe congenital heart disease.

This work is a remarkable step toward understanding and ultimately improving outcomes for these vulnerable patients. Congratulations, Dr. Leon.

03/07/2026

Our faculty physicians are helping youth to see their future selves in white coats or other careers in STEM fields. Each year at Black Men in White Coats Youth Summit, doctors set up clinical demonstrations using tools like blood pressure monitors, otoscopes, and thermometers, aiming to pique curiosity.

This annual event showcases more than careers in healthcare. The summit provides inspiration and shows children, if they can see physicians who look like their community, they can be in the medical field too.

The exhibits are designed to be hands on and engaging for children ages 8 to 18. Each activity exposes kids to different health professionals like mental health counselors, adolescent health providers, and educators.

03/06/2026

Volunteers from across UT Southwestern Medical Center handed out toy zebras for Rare Disease Day at the Dallas Zoo. Zebras are a symbol of rare disease. This comes from the saying taught to all medical students: “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.” It is a metaphor for a given symptom; the patient probably has a common condition rather than a rare one. The zebras are the rare ones.

According to the National Organization for Rare Disorders, about 300 million people are living with rare diseases worldwide. There are about 6,000 recognized rare disorders, which together affect 3.5% to 7% of the population. UT Southwestern/Children's Health was designated as a Rare Disease Center of Excellence in 2021.

Rare Disease Day is observed every year on February 28 (or 29 in leap years), the rarest day of the year. The goal is to increase awareness. To learn more about UT Southwestern’s Rare Disease Center of Excellence, visit: https://bit.ly/4b2pfLB.

02/25/2026

In a new landmark study, a team of researchers from the Division of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine and Parkland Health tested the effectiveness of telemedicine versus an in-person exam for the assessment of infants suspected of having hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

The study was recently published in the journal Pediatrics, a publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Learn more about the study: https://bit.ly/4qYZbqJ

02/23/2026

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02/09/2026

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has awarded Pediatrics residents Maurine Sam, M.D. and Isha Darbari, M.D., a Community Pediatrics Training Initiative Advocacy Training Grant. The competitive award supports a faculty-resident team to develop an educational activity for trainees on child advocacy, in conjunction with Texas Pediatric Society, our state AAP chapter.

With the grant, they will work to enhance our Community Organization Resident Practicum elective with new interactive workshops.

02/07/2026

Pediatrics residents Stephen Hemmerly, M.D., Renae White, M.D., and Abel De Castro, M.D., have been elected to the UT Southwestern Gamma Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society as resident member nominees.

Residents can be nominated by students, and inductees are selected from those who demonstrate excellence in scholarship, professionalism, leadership, and teaching.

02/05/2026

Bethsabee Stone, M.D., contributed to a multicenter study with the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network that seeks to determine whether the use of the Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) exam, a noninvasive method widely used to detect internal bleeding in adult patients suffering abdominal and chest injuries, impacts care in children who are hemodynamically stable after blunt torso trauma.

Learn more about the FAST study: https://bit.ly/4qI5FKH

01/30/2026

Pediatric hospitalists Stephanie Arar, M.D., Andrew Yu, M.D., and Grace Slater, M.D., authored chapters in the newly published textbook, Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 3rd edition. Division Chief Vineeta Mittal, M.D., served as the editor of the book’s cardiology section.

This text is the gold standard in pediatric hospital medicine and provides the most up-to-date evidence-based approaches to inpatient pediatric care available – all from top experts in their fields.

01/29/2026

Bhaskar Gurram, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, has been named 2025 Physician of the Year by the North & Central Texas/Oklahoma Chapter of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation.

01/28/2026

Congratulations to the Division of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine on having all of the abstracts they submitted to the Newborn Brain Society’s 17th International Newborn Brain Conference (INBBC) be accepted. They will be sharing their transformative work among global leaders in newborn brain health in Naples, Italy, in February.

Pediatric resident Lynn Bitar, M.D., was selected to give an oral presentation about the Chalak lab’s work on fetal inflammation. Only 1% of abstracts accepted to INBBC are chosen. The study has also been accepted to be published in Pediatric Research.

We’re proud to see their expertise and dedication recognized internationally.

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