Darryl Keith Miles, MD
Critical Care Specialist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Biography
In the technologically sophisticated environment of pediatric intensive care, pediatric critical care specialists like Dr. Darryl Miles leverage a great deal of patience with specialized experience to make a difference at the bedside. They are crucial players in the collaborative effort to stabilize, diagnose and manage children with life-threatening conditions.
I am always looking for ways that we can improve the critical care management of patients and follow their recovery beyond the ICU.
Dr. Miles is focused on improving neurologic outcomes in pediatric patients following brain injuries and reducing neurologic complications of critical illness.
“I am inspired by the challenge of maximizing outcome potential in children that come in with an acute neurologic injury and improving their chances of recovery, as well as their long-term neurodevelopmental improvement,” he says.
Most critically ill or injured children have complex issues related to or in conjunction with their life-threatening neurologic condition. Dr. Miles, who is part of the Pediatric Neurocritical Care Research Group, is focused on improving the care of these patients through investigative research and a multidisciplinary team approach.
“I am always looking for ways that we can improve the critical care management of patients and follow their recovery beyond the ICU,” he says.
Dr. Miles is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in pediatric critical care medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco, where he also completed an internship and residency in pediatrics. He completed a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at UT Southwestern.
He has participated in several NIH-sponsored multi-center clinical trials for therapies using systemic hypothermia to improve cognitive outcome after brain injury in children. In addition, he has also developed institutional practice guidelines for severe traumatic brain injury, status epilepticus and targeted temperature management. He is an assistant professor of pediatric critical care at UT Southwestern with research interests in traumatic brain injury in children.
Outside of his practice, Dr. Miles enjoys outdoor sports, particularly mountain and road biking.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of California San Francisco Sch of Med (1997)
- Internship
- University of CA at San Francisco School of Med (1998), Pediatrics
- Residency
- University of CA at San Francisco School of Med (2000), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (2005), Pediatric Critical Care
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Critical Care
Conditions
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Cerebral autoregulation
- Neuroimaging biomarkers
- Pediatric neurocritical care
- Quality improvement in pediatric neurocritical care
- Traumatic brain injury
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Publications
Publications
- Use of magnetic resonance imaging in severe pediatric traumatic brain injury: assessment of current practice. Ferrazzano PA, Rosario BL, Wisniewski SR, Shafi NI, Siefkes HM, Miles DK, Alexander AL, Bell MJ J Neurosurg Pediatr 2019 Feb 1-9
- Age and Mortality in Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Results from an International Study. Sarnaik A, Ferguson NM, O'Meara AMI, Agrawal S, Deep A, Buttram S, Bell MJ, Wisniewski SR, Luther JF, Hartman AL, Vavilala MS Neurocrit Care 2018 Jun 28 3 302-313
- Assessment of Recovery Following Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. Slovis JC, Gupta N, Li NY, Kernie SG, Miles DK Pediatr Crit Care Med 2018 Feb
- Extubation Failure and Tracheostomy Placement in Children with Acute Neurocritical Illness. Cohn EC, Robertson TS, Scott SA, Finley AM, Huang R, Miles DK Neurocrit Care 2017 Jul
- Abusive Head Trauma and Mortality-An Analysis From an International Comparative Effectiveness Study of Children With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Miller Ferguson N, Sarnaik A, Miles D, Shafi N, Peters MJ, Truemper E, Vavilala MS, Bell MJ, Wisniewski SR, Luther JF, Hartman AL, Kochanek PM Crit. Care Med. 2017 Apr
Books
- Pediatric Neurocritical Care. In Agrawal A, Britz G, eds. Pediatric Vascular Neurosurgery. Cruz-Navarro J, Miles DK, McDonagh DL. (2016). Springer International Publishing; 57-76.
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Professional Activities
- American Institute for Ultrasound Medicine
- Pediatric Neurocritical Care Research Group (2009)
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Awards and Honors
- D Magazine Best Doctor (2022)
- D Magazine Best Pediatric Specialist (2021)
- Dean’s Prize for Research (1996), Presented by the University of California San Francisco
- Conferred Thesis Dissertation (1996), Presented by the University of California San Francisco
- Western Society of Pediatric Research Lowell Glasgow Award (1995), Presented by the University of California San Francisco
- Minority Access to Research Careers Fellowship (1993), San Jose State University
- Magna cum Laude (1993), San Jose State University
