Michelle Caraballo, M.D.

Dr.Michelle Caraballo received her B.S. in Bioengineering from Rice University, and her M.D. from UT Southwestern. She completed residency training in Pediatrics at UT Southwestern before moving to Denver for fellowship training in both Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine at the University of Colorado. Originally from the Dallas area, she moved back home to join the faculty at UT Southwestern in the Department of Pediatrics in 2015.

Her primary interests include infant safe sleep, sleep-related infant deaths, pediatric sleep-related breathing disorders, narcolepsy, and asthma.

Medical School

UT Southwestern Medical School (2008)

Residency

UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center (2011), Pediatrics

Fellowship

University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine - National Jewish Health (2014), Sleep Medicine

Fellowship

University of Colorado Denver (2015), Pediatric Pulmonology

• Infant safe sleep
• Pediatric sleep-related breathing disorders

Featured Publications

Successful Treatment of Rapidly Progressive Interstitial Lung Disease in Juvenile Dermatomyositis

Ciaglia K, Ghawji M, Caraballo M, Sloan E Pediatrics 2024 3 153

Steering the titanic: One tertiary care children's hospital's experience navigating safe sleep for hospitalized infants.

Caraballo M, Abbe M, Tidwell J, Dutton H, Garcia MG, Punzalan G, Axon A, J Pediatr Nurs 2023 Jun

Reasons and predictors for early termination of pediatric polysomnography: one children's hospital's experience.

Luong S, Culp M, McCreary M, Wani A, Caraballo M, J Clin Sleep Med 2023 May

Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children With Autism.

Tomkies A, Johnson RF, Shah G, Caraballo M, Evans P, Mitchell RB, J Clin Sleep Med 2019 Oct 15 10 1469-1476

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Risk for Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in Children of Adolescent Mothers: A Qualitative Study.

Caraballo M, Shimasaki S, Johnston K, Tung G, Albright K, Halbower AC J. Pediatr. 2016 Jul 174 78-83.e2

 Featured Books

Respiratory Tract & Mediastinum. In Hay WW, Levin MJ, Deterding RR, Abzug MJ, eds. Current Diagnosis and Treatment - Pediatrics. 23rd ed.

Federico MJ, Baker CD, Deboer EM, Halbower AC, Kupfer O, Martiniano SL, Sagel SD, Stillwell P, Zemanick ET, Caraballo M, Hawkins S. (2016). McGraw-Hill Education; 500-549.

Respiratory Tract & Mediastinum. In Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Pediatrics, 24th ed, Hay WW, Levin MJ, Deterding RR, Abzug MJ, eds.

1. Federico MJ, Baker CD, Deboer EM, Halbower AC, Kupfer O, Martiniano SL, Sagel SD, Stillwell P, Zemanick ET, Caraballo M, Hawkins S (2018). New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Education; 509-560

Growth and development in pediatric obstructive sleep apnea. In Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children: An Evidence-Based, Multidisciplinary Approach

Caraballo M (2023). Academic Press

• DFWChild Mom Approved Pediatric Professional
  (2024)
• Ambulatory Provider of the Month
  Children's Health (2015)

• American Academy of Sleep Medicine (2013)
• American Thoracic Society (2011)
• Dallas County Medical Society (2015)
• Texas Medical Association (2015)