Myra Helen Wyckoff, MD
Neonatologist
Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Biography
Myra Wyckoff, M.D., is a pediatric physician at Children’s Health℠ who specializes in neonatal resuscitation. She is also a Professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Wyckoff earned her medical degree from UT Southwestern and remained there for general pediatrics training. She maintains and utilizes one of the most comprehensive neonatal resuscitation databases in the country to continually try to improve neonatal resuscitation processes locally and nationally.
Dr. Wyckoff has served on the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, Newborn Subsection since 2003. She has served on the American Academy of Pediatrics Neonatal Resuscitation Program Steering Committee since 2006 and was named co-chair in 2011.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (1994)
- Internship
- Children's Medical Center Dallas (1995), Pediatrics
- Residency
- Children's Medical Center Dallas (1997), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (2000), 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 resuscitation
- Neonatal research network
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Publications
Publications
- 2022 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations: Summary From the Basic Life Support; Advanced Life Support; Pediatric Life Support; Neonatal Life Support; Education, Implementation, and Teams; and First Aid Task Forces. Wyckoff et al. 2022
- Mortality, In-Hospital Morbidity, Care Practices, and 2-Year Outcomes for Extremely Preterm Infants in the US, 2013-2018. Bell EF, Hintz SR, Hansen NI, Bann CM, Wyckoff MH, DeMauro SB, Walsh MC, Vohr BR, Stoll BJ, Carlo WA, Van Meurs KP, Rysavy MA, Patel RM, Merhar SL, Sánchez PJ, Laptook AR, Hibbs AM, Cotten CM, D'Angio CT, Winter S, Fuller J, Das A; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network 2022
- 2021 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations: Summary From the Basic Life Support; Advanced Life Support; Neonatal Life Support; Education, Implementation, and Teams; First Aid Task Forces; and the COVID-19 Working Group. Wyckoff MH et al. 2021
- A randomized controlled trial of higher versus lower hemoglobin transfusion thresholds for extremely low birth weight infants: The Transfusion of Prematures (TOP) Trial. Kirpalani H, Bell EF, Hintz SR, Tan S, Schmidt B, Chaudhary AS, Johnson KJ, Crawford MM, Newman JE, Vohr BR, Carlo WA, D’Angio CT, Kennedy KA, Ohls RK, Poindexter BB, Schibler K, Whyte RK, Widness JA, Zupancic JA, Brambilla DJ, Wyckoff MH, Truog WE, Walsh MC, Chock VY, Laptook AR, Sokol GM, Yoder BA, Patel RM, Cotton CM, Carmen MF, Devaskar U, Chawla S, Sánchez PJ, Higgins RD, Das A, for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research. 2020
Books
- Respiratory and Cardiovascular Support in the Delivery Room. In Bancalari E, ed. The Newborn Lung: Neonatology Questions and Controversies. 4th ed. Weiner G, Hooper S, Davis PG, Wyckoff MH. (2023). Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders; .
- Chest Compression, Medications, and Special Problems in Neonatal Resuscitation. In Martin RJ, Fanaroff AA, Walsh MC, eds. Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. 12th ed. Kapadia VS, Wyckoff MH. (2023). Philadelphia, PA, Elsevier Saunders.
- The Preterm Newborn. In Cunningham G. ed. Williams Obstetrics 26th ed. Wyckoff MH. (2022). New York, NY, McGraw-Hill
- Delivery Room Resuscitation of the Newborn infant. In Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23th ed, Kline MW, Blaney SM, Giardino AP, Oange JS, Penny DJ, Schutze GE, Shekerdemian LS, eds. Kapadia VK. Wyckoff MH (2023). New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Education;
- The Newborn. In Williams Obstetrics, 26th ed, Cunningham FG, Leveno KJ, Bloom SL, Dashe JS, Hoffman BL, Casey BM, Spong CY, eds. Wyckoff MH (2022). New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Education;
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Professional Activities
- American Academy of Pediatrics (2000)
- American Heart Association (2006)
- Perinatal Research Society (2008)
- Society for Pediatric Research (2007)
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Awards and Honors
- Mentor Award UTSW Leaders in Clinical Excellence Awards (2022)
- Pediatric Educator Award of the Southern Society for Pediatric Research (2022)
- Chair, Neonatal Life Support Task Force - International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (2015-2022)
- Editorial Board - Resuscitation (2015)
- Elected Co-Chair of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program Steering Committee - American Academy of Pediatrics (2011-2015)
- Elected to Perinatal Research Society (2008)
- Elected to Society for Pediatric Research (2006)
- AOA - Medical Academic Honor Society (1994)
- Acute Care Rotation Teaching Award - UT Southwestern Medical School (2007, 2009)
- Pediatric Faculty Teaching Award - UT Southwestern Pediatric Program Residents (2006, 2008, 2011, 2023)
