Nakia Gaines, M.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor Schools Medical School Departments Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Dr. Nakia Gaines graduated from the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida. She then completed her pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. After completing residency, Dr. Gaines was a pediatric hospitalist for one year at All Children’s Hospital at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida. She then moved to Houston, Texas and completed a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. After completing fellowship, Dr. Gaines began her career as a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Children’s Health Dallas and Plano. She is now an assistant professor at the University of Texas Southwestern. Education Medical School University of Miami School of Medicine (2005) Residency Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2008), Pediatrics Fellowship Baylor College of Medicine (2012), Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Interest Car Seat Safety Injury Prevention Quality Improvement Publications A Novel Risk Score to Guide the Evaluation of Acute Hematogenous Osteomyelitis in Children Stephan AM, Platt S, Levine DA, Qiu Y, Buchhalter L, Lyons TW, Gaines N, Cruz AT, Sudanagunta S, Hardee IJ, Eisenberg JR, Tamas V, McAneney C, Chinta SS, Yeung C, Root JM, Fant C, Dunnick J, Pifko E, Campbell C, Bruce M, Srivastava G, Pruitt CM, Hueschen LA, Ugalde IT, Becker C, Granda E, Klein EJ, Kaplan RL Pediatrics 2024 Feb 153 Comparison of Procalcitonin With Commonly Used Biomarkers and Algorithms for Evaluating Suspected Pediatric Musculoskeletal Infection in the Emergency Department Van Der Laan L, Gaines N, Van Horn N, Jo C, Ma Y, Copley LA Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics 2023 Feb 43 E168-E173 Impact of COVID-19 on Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Visits to the Emergency Department Bolt J, Patel F, Stone L, Pandian D, Manuel MM, Gaines N Pediatric emergency care 2022 Aug 38 409-415 Pediatric subcutaneous abscess: Still a clinical exam-based diagnosis and treatment Garcia IC, Clark RA, Chung DH, Gaines N Children 2021 May 8 Etiologies of septic shock in a pediatric emergency department population Gaines NN, Patel B, Williams EA, Cruz AT Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 2012 Nov 31 1203-1205 Results 1-5 of 5 1 Books Featured Books Heart Block. In The 5 Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult 2nd Edition Gaines, Nakia (2019 p398). Wolters Kluwer Immunoprophylaxis. In Johns Hopkins Harriet Lane Housestaff 18th Edition Gaines, Nakia (2008 p306-335). Philadelphia, PA, Elsevier Health Sciences Honors & Awards Medicine Trustee ScholarshipUniversity of Miami School of Medicine (2001-2005) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Academy of Pediatrics (2020) American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow (2009) American Academy of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine (2013) Texas Pediatric Society, Injury Prevention and Environmental Health Committee (2018)
