The Neonatal Hemodynamics Faculty and Fellows are the heart of our program. We welcome learners, trainees, and/or observers from across the nation and throughout the world with an open-door philosophy. During your experience at Iowa, you will be exposed to cutting edge methods of evaluating the cardiovascular health of critically ill infants from some of the best clinicians, researchers, and teachers in our profession.
The hemodynamics faculty are dedicated to helping you achieve your training aims. Inpatient service expectations are well-balanced with ample learning opportunities and enthusiastic teaching. These opportunities include, but are not limited to, one-on-one settings, interactive lectures, learning with an ECHO simulator, and daily TnECHO review sessions.
Our reviews are a case-based physiology discussion with an emphasis on comprehensiveness, the unique aspects of neonatal physiology and pharmacotherapeutics. We work in close collaboration with our pediatric cardiology colleagues to ensure a breadth of exposure to red flags for congenital heart disease and ensure pediatric echocardiography lab training with co-supervision by the director of the University of Iowa Pediatric Echo Lab.
Fellows will also be exposed to ongoing research opportunities in which they will learn research methodology and participate in data acquisition and analysis. We provide personalized opportunities for you to learn career-long lessons from these dedicated professionals.
Fellowship Leaders
Danielle R. Rios, MD, MS
Dr. Danielle Rios is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Iowa. She completed residency and neonatology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital where she also completed a Clinical Pharmacology Fellowship. Additionally, she completed a fellowship in Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography at the University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children. Her areas of academic focus are the improvement of outcomes in extremely low birth weight infants through predictive analytics and the hemodynamics of neonates born prematurely.
Stephanie Acosta, MD
Dr. Stephanie Acosta is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiologist at the University of Iowa. She graduated from medical school at UTHSCSA in 2015. She completed her pediatric residency at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas and pediatric cardiology fellowship at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida. Her academic focus is fetal cardiology and echocardiography. Her research interests include fetal to neonatal cardiovascular transition and cardiovascular myocardial function of critically ill neonates.