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Pediatric Insights Podcast

Learn more on about latest research and advancements in pediatric care from Children's Health experts through our Pediatric Insights Podcasts.

A Shift in NeuroNICU Care for Preterm Infants (doctorpodcasting.com) – Featured Speakers: Lina Chalak, MD and Michelle Machie, MD

  • Lina Chalak, M.D., is a board-certified neonatologist at Children's Healthâ„  and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at UT Southwestern. She is the Interim Division Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Children’s Health and is also Director of the Neurological Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Neuro-NICU) Program – the first-of-its-kind in Texas. Dr. Chalak specializes in the care of infants with neurological conditions, such as seizures or brain injuries.

  • Michelle Machie, M.D., is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in child neurology. She is an assistant professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center and specializes in hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, perinatal brain injury and congenital malformations.

Improving Care and Outcomes for Neonates with Seizures (doctorpodcasting.com) – Featured Speaker: Alison Dolce, MD

  • Alison Dolce, M.D., is a board-certified Pediatric Neurologist and Epileptologist at Children’s Health and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at UT Southwestern. She’s also the Director of the Pediatric Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program and Co-Director of the Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Clinic. Her specialties include pediatric neurology, clinical neurophysiology and pediatric epilepsy.

Conferences & Events

Neonatal Insights Series: Essentials of Newborn Resuscitation

Neonatal Insights Series: Understand the role speech, Physical and Occupational therapy in neonatal care

Neonatal Insights Series: Effective Lactation Support for Mothers of Neonates

Neonatal Insights Series: Care of ELBW Infants (Extremely Low Birth Weight)

Neonatal Insights Series: Respiratory therapy in NICU

Neonatal Insights Series: Nutrition in Premature Infants

Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal Syphilis

Neonatal Insights Series: Basics of Neonatal Transport

Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal HIE

Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal Sepsis

Neonatal Insights Series: Congenital Heart disease in neonates

Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal Hypotension

Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal Emergencies (Seizures/Respiratory Distress (Pneumothorax)/SVT

Neonatal Insights Series: Neonatal Ethics: "Inadvisable or Impermissible? Refusal of Resuscitation at 24 weeks"

We care for infants throughout their journey, from prenatal diagnosis to the NICU and through their first five years of life. Our team uses the latest medical advances – including a 47-bed Level IV NICU and Texas' first TeleNICU – to deliver complex care to critically ill infants.

Our NICU is home to a comprehensive team, including renowned neonatologists from UT Southwestern. Our unique skills and expertise, combined with leading-edge techniques and technology, allow us to provide award-winning neonatal and perinatal care to children in North Texas and beyond. These attributes, along with our dedication to research, patient care and medical education, have allowed us to achieve our vision of making Children’s Health among the very best medical centers.

At Children’s Health, we believe treating the whole child is an important part of the care journey. That’s why we practice a holistic, comprehensive approach to care.

When patients come to Children's Health, they are not only getting access to our Level IV NICU, but also our more than 50 award-winning specialties and subspecialties. With experts in a range of top-ranked specialties all in the same place, there is no better place to receive coordinated, high-quality care.

From fetal heart and neurological conditions to ECMO support, patients will get all the care they need – all under one roof. Using a comprehensive care model, our expert team of neonatologists collaborates seamlessly with other specialists to provide patients world-renowned NICU care. 

Specialized Areas of Care

FETAL Center

Neonatal neurology

Cardiology with a focus on fetal heart conditions

ECMO support (cardiology and pulmonology)

Collaborative Team

Neonatologists

Urologists

Neurosurgeons

General Surgeons

Gastroenterologists

Nephrologists (overseeing Aquadex renal replacement therapies)

This multidisciplinary approach ensures that each infant receives personalized, coordinated care tailored to their specific medical needs, fostering optimal outcomes and enhancing the quality of care provided in our NICU.

Our neonatal and pediatric transport team is one of the busiest in the nation and the first to be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS) in all three modes of transportation: jet, helicopter and ground ambulance.

Research: Neonatology
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