Texas Children’s is excited to announce the arrival of Dr. Gautham Suresh who recently joined the neonatology team as the medical director of Texas Children’s Newborn Center.
Suresh earned his medical degree from JJM Medical College in Davangere, India. He completed his pediatric residency and neonatology fellowship at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in India. Suresh also obtained fellowship training in neonatology at Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney, Australia and a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington. Suresh holds a masters of science degree in quality improvement and evaluative sciences from The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Suresh arrived at Texas Children’s from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, NH, where he served as the medical director for the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Armed with impressive credentials, Suresh is known internationally for his expertise on patient safety, health care quality improvement and evidence-based medicine, and has been a guest speaker at numerous scientific conferences and workshops. Suresh has worked extensively with the Vermont Oxford Network as a faculty member of their quality improvement collaborative, the Neonatal Intensive Care Quality Project. Suresh also served on the teaching faculty at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and at The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
As the medical director of the Newborn Center, Suresh collaborates with leaders from nursing, respiratory care and other disciplines to ensure regulatory, accreditation and risk management requirements are met, while upholding the delivery of high quality patient care to our premature and critically ill infants.
Aside from his leadership role, Suresh serves as an attending neonatologist in the Newborn Center and is actively involved in mentoring fellows, residents, junior faculty and medical students from other disciplines. He is also a big proponent of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction to improve health professional satisfaction and the quality of patient care. He hopes to share his personal experience and expertise in this field with staff in the Newborn Center and at Texas Children’s.
Suresh is the chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’s online program on Education in Quality Improvement for Pediatric Practice. He is an associate editor of the Neonatal Review Group of the Cochrane Collaboration and co-editor of “Clinical Guidelines in Neonatology” and “Assisted Ventilation of the Neonate,” a comprehensive resource guide for the care of infants requiring assisted ventilation.
“We are honored to have Dr. Suresh share his extensive knowledge and expertise in quality improvement, patient safety and risk reduction programs to better serve our NICU patients and their families,” said Pattie Bondurant, vice president of nursing at Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women.