Samuel Zachary Davila, MD
Critical Care Specialist
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Biography
Samuel Zachary Davila, M.D., is a pediatric heart specialist who practices pediatric critical care and cardiac critical care medicine at Children’s Health℠.
Dr. Davila treats children who have a wide range of issues, such as heart failure and congenital heart disease, including single ventricle heart defects. His clinical and research areas of interest include treating sepsis and other life-threatening infections with specific interest in those that affect patients who have had transplants.
“I enjoy helping critically ill patients get better and progress to the point when they can go home and live happy, healthy lives with their families,” says Dr. Davila.
I enjoy helping critically ill patients get better and progress to the point when they can go home and live happy, healthy lives with their families.
Dr. Davila earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2005. He completed a pediatrics residency at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri in 2009. In 2014, he completed fellowships at Washington University where he focused on pediatric infectious disease and pediatric critical care medicine.
Dr. Davila attributes his interest in medicine to an “amazing” primary care doctor who took great care of him and his family years ago. “I was fascinated by his work and wanted to do what he did,” remembers Dr. Davila.
Today, Dr. Davila also serves as Associate Professor in pediatrics at UT Southwestern.
At home, Dr. Davila enjoys spending time with his wife and two little boys – kicking soccer balls and taking trips to the zoo and dinosaur exhibits. He likes nothing better than when he can send his patients home to live normal lives, “just like I live with my family.”
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Texas HSC at San Antonio (2005)
- Residency
- Washington University School of Medicine (2009), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Washington University School of Medicine (2014), Pediatric Critical Care
Washington University School of Medicine (2014), Pediatric Infectious Diseases - Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Critical Care,
American Board of Pediatrics/Infectious Disease
Conditions
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Host response in severe sepsis
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Publications
- Pediatric Ventilator-Associated Infections: The Ventilator-Associated INfection Study. Willson DF, Hoot M, Khemani R, Carrol C, Kirby A, Schwarz A, Gedeit R, Nett ST, Erickson S, Flori H, Hays S, Hall M Pediatr Crit Care Med 2017 Jan 18 1 e24-e34
- Use of continuous renal replacement therapy in salicylate toxicity: A case report and review of the literature. Papacostas MF, Hoge M, Baum M, Davila SZ Heart Lung 2016 Aug
- Paragonimus kellicotti flukes in Missouri, USA., Lane MA, Marcos LA, Onen NF, Demertzis LM, Hayes EV, Davila SZ, Nurutdinova DR, Bailey TC, Weil GJ Emerging Infect. Dis. 2012 Aug 18 8 1263-7
- Thigh Abscess due to Haemophilus type f in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Positive- Child, Watson M, Davila SZ, Burnham CA, Nguyen V, Nelson KL, Smith A, Storch GA. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice 2011 May
- Use of continuous renal replacement therapy in salicylate toxicity: A case report and review of the literature. Papacostas MF, Hoge M, Baum M, Davila SZ Heart & lung : the journal of critical care 2016 Aug
- Pediatric Ventilator-Associated Infections: The Ventilator-Associated INfection Study. Willson DF, Hoot M, Khemani R, Carrol C, Kirby A, Schwarz A, Gedeit R, Nett ST, Erickson S, Flori H, Hays S, Hall M Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2017 Jan 18 1 e24-e34
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Professional Activities
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (2009)
- Society of Critical Care Medicine (2010)
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Awards and Honors
- Fellow of the Year in Pediatric Critical Care (2014-2015), St. Louis Children's Hospital
- Mentored Training Program in Clinical Research - UL1TR000448 (2011)
