Dimitrios Angelis, MD
Neonatologist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Athens Medical School (2003)
- Residency
- Monmouth Medical Center - GME (2012), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- St. Christopher's Hospital for Children (2014), Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Neonatal-Perinatal
Conditions
- Abdominal masses
- Achondroplasia (dwarfism)
- Ambiguous genitalia
- Anencephaly
- Anorectal malformation (imperforate anus or ARM)
- Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
- Biliary atresia
- Bladder exstrophy
- Bladder outlet obstruction
- Bowel atresia
- Brachydactyly (symbrachydactyly)
- Chronic lung disease (CLD)
- Cloacal exstrophy
- Colon atresia
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
- Congenital heart disease
- Congenital infections
- Congenital lung lesions
- Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM)
- Craniosynostosis
- Cystic fibrosis (CF)
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- Down syndrome
- Duodenal aresia
- Edema
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS or elastic skin)
- Encephalocele
- Encephalopathy (encephalitis)
- Enteroviruses
- Esophageal atresia (EA)
- Feeding disorder (PFD)
- First unprovoked seizure
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Gastroschisis
- Goldenhar syndrome (oculo-auriculo-vertebral dysplasia or OAV)
- Head and neck lumps
- Hemophilia
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hydronephrosis
- Hydrops
- Hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice)
- Hypotonia (floppy muscle syndrome)
- Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (intrapartum asphyxia - HIE)
- Intestinal disorders
- Intraventricular hemorrhage and stroke
- Isolated craniosynostosis
- Jejunal and ileal atresia
- Laryngomalacia
- Lordosis (sway back)
- Low birth weight
- Low blood pressure (hypotension)
- Meconium aspiration
- Mediastinal mass
- Metabolic diseases
- Muscular dystrophy (MD)
- Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
- Neonatal diabetes
- Newborn tumors
- Noonan syndrome (NS)
- Omphalocele
- Open neural tube defects (ONTDs)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- Persistent pulmonary hypertension
- Pierre Robin syndrome (PRS)
- Pleural effusion
- Poland syndrome (Poland sequence)
- Prematurity
- Prenatal drug and alcohol exposure
- Pulmonary sequestration
- Pyloric stenosis
- Renal malformation
- Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)
- Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
- Rubella (German measles)
- Sepsis and meningitis
- Short bowel syndrome (SBS)
- Skeletal dysplasias and abnormalities
- Spina bifida
- Syndromic craniosynostosis
- Syphilis
- Tay-Sachs
- Toxoplasmosis
- Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF)
- VATER syndrome (VACTERL association)
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Neonatal brain injury
- Zinc and neonatal brain
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Publications
- Human Parechovirus (HPeV) infections: clinical presentations, patterns, and evolution of neonatal brain injury. Oren MS, Clarke RL, Price M, Thomas JM, Machie M, Dolce AM, Chalak LF, Angelis D, J Perinatol 2023 Dec
- Hyperglycemia and prematurity: a narrative review. Angelis D, Jaleel MA, Brion LP, Pediatr Res 2023 Apr
- Implementation of morbidity and mortality conference in a community hospital NICU and narrative review. Chan C, Pazandak C, Angelis D, Front Pediatr 2023 11 1321296
- Developmental changes of the fetal and neonatal thyroid gland and functional consequences on the cardiovascular system. Kotsopoulou I, Vyas AK, Cory MJ, Chan CS, Jagarapu J, Gill S, Mudduluru M, Angelis D, J Perinatol 2022 Dec 42 12 1576-1586
- Vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation: rationalizing medical management of neonatal heart failure. Cory MJ, Durand P, Sillero R, Morin L, Savani R, Chalak L, Angelis D, Pediatr Res 2022 Apr
- Acetaminophen and the developing brain: A critical review of the evidence. Angelis D, Chalak L, Early Hum Dev 2021 Jun 105411
- Part III. Neuronal biochemical effects of acetaminophen and neurodevelopmental outcomes: Friend or foe? Angelis D, León RL, Chalak L, Early Hum Dev 2021 Jun 105408
- Part I. Mechanisms of actions and metabolism of acetaminophen related to the neonatal brain. Angelis D, Savani RC, Jagarapu J, Hu J, Wan-Huen P, Chalak L, Early Hum Dev 2021 Jun 105406
- Part II. Acetaminophen and closure of ductus arteriosus in the newborns: Mechanisms of action, clinical studies, safety and efficacy. Angelis D, Jagarapu J, Wan-Huen P, Savani RC, Jaleel M, Early Hum Dev 2021 Jun 105407
- Nitric oxide and the brain. Part 2: Effects following neonatal brain injury-friend or foe? Angelis D, Savani R, Chalak L, Pediatr Res 2021 Mar 89 4 746-752
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Pediatrics (2008)
- American Academy of Pediatrics, Perinatal Section (2011)
- General Medical Council (London, UK) (2016-2017)
- Hellenic Medical Society (Athens, Greece) (2003)
- Society for Pediatric Research (2012)
- Society of Critical Care Medicine (2009-2011)
- Texas Pediatric Society (2014)
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Awards and Honors
- Dean's Inpatient Medical Care Award and Outstanding Clinical Care Award - Texas Tech University (2017)
- Dean's Teaching Award - Texas Tech University (2015)
- ESPR/PAS Travel Award - (2014)
- The Angelo M. DiGeorge Teaching Award - St. Christopher's Hospital for Children (2014)
- AAP 83rd Perinatal and Developmental Medicine Symposium Travel Award - (2013)
- Monmouth Medical Center Teaching Award - (2011)
