Nakia Gaines, M.D.

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.

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

• Car Seat Safety
• Injury Prevention
• Quality Improvement

Featured Publications

Etiologies of septic shock in a pediatric emergency department population.

Gaines NN, Patel B, Williams EA, Cruz AT Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. 2012 Nov 31 11 1203-5

Pneumothorax, Pneumomediastinum, and Pulmonary Embolism

Johnson NN, Toledo A, Endom E Pediatric Clinics of North America 2010 Dec 57 6 1357-1383

 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

• Medicine Trustee Scholarship
  University of Miami School of Medicine (2001-2005)

• 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)