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)
- 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 Atresia
- Edema
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)
- Encephalocele
- Encephalopathy (Encephalitis)
- Enteroviruses
- Esophageal Atresia
- Feeding Disorder (PFD)
- First Unprovoked Seizure
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Gastroschisis
- Goldenhar Syndrome (Oculo-Auriculo-Vertebral Dysplasia (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 (HIE) (Intrapartum Asphyxia)
- Intestinal Disorders
- Intraventricular Hemorrhage and Stroke
- Isolated Craniosynostosis
- Jejunal and Ileal Atresia
- Laryngomalacia
- Lordosis
- Low Blood Pressure (Hypotension)
- Meconium Aspiration
- Mediastinal Masses
- Metabolic Disease
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)
- Neonatal Diabetes
- Newborn Tumors
- Noonan Syndrome
- Omphalocele
- Open Neural Tube Defects (ONTDs)
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pierre Robin
- Pleural Effusions
- Poland Syndrome (Poland Sequence)
- Prematurity
- Prenatal Drug Exposure
- Pulmonary Sequestration
- Pyloric Stenosis
- Renal Malformation
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS)
- Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)
- Rubella (German measles)
- Sepsis/Meningitis
- Short Bowel Syndrome
- Skeletal Dysplasias and Abnormalities
- Spina Bifida (Myelomeningocele)
- Syndromic Craniosynostosis
- Syphilis
- Tay-Sachs
- Toxoplasmosis
- Tracheoesophageal Fistula
- VATER Syndrome (VACTERL Association)
- Very Low Birth Weight
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Neonatal Resuscitation
- Neonatal Research Network
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Publications
- Delivery Room Resuscitation, Wyckoff MH In: Rudolph CD, Rudolph AM, Lister GE, First LR, Gershon AA, eds. Rudolph?s Pediatrics. 2011 22nd ed. New York, NY. Mc 164-170
- Critical Hemodynamics of neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Wyckoff MH NeoReviews 2010 11 e123-e129
- Part 15: neonatal resuscitation: 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care, 13. Kattwinkel J, Perlman JM, Aziz K, Colby C, Fairchild K, Gallagher J, Hazinski MF, Halamek LP, Kumar P, Little G, McGowan JE, Nightengale B, Ramirez MM, Ringer S, Simon WM, Weiner GM, Wyckoff M, Zaichkin J. Circulation 2010 122 S909-919
- Optimizing chest compressions during delivery room resuscitation., Wyckoff MH, Berg RA Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 2008 13 410-415
- Endotracheal delivery of medications during neonatal resuscitation, Wyckoff MH, Wylie J. Clin Perinatol 2006 33 153-60.
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Professional Activities
- Texas Medical Association
- Dallas County Medical Society
- American Academy of Pediatrics (2000)
- American Heart Association (2006)
- Society for Pediatric Research (2007)
- Perinatal Research Society (2008)
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Awards and Honors
- Pediatric Faculty Teaching Award, UT Southwestern Pediatric Program Residents (2006, 2008, 2011)
- AOA 1994, Medical Academic Honor Society
- Elected to Society for Pediatric Research 2006
- Acute Care Rotation Teaching Award 2007-2009, UT Southwestern Medical School
- Invited Lectureship, 6th Annual Fellows' Invited Lectureship 2014, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Elected to Perinatal Research Society 2008
- Elected Co-Chair of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program Steering Committee 2011, American Academy of Pediatrics