Vineeta Mittal, M.D. Titles and Appointments Chief, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine Professor & Division Chief 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. Mittal is Division Chief of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at UT Southwestern and a pediatric hospitalist at Children’s Health. Her clinical practice involves care of hospitalized children. She is passionate about streamlining care, practicing evidence-based medicine, clinical and quality improvement research and bedside teaching. She implemented family-centered rounds in 2008 and leads the inpatient bronchiolitis and asthma guideline projects. She is a UTSW Colleges mentor. Dr. Mittal’s research interests include respiratory illness, high flow nasal cannula use, benchmarking care and quality metrics, and coordination of care. She is the site lead for the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Setting (PRIS) network, co-leads the CHAT (Children’s Hospitals Across Texas) bronchiolitis project, and is a member of Children’s Hospital Association’s Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS)-Hospital Medicine research group. Recently, she was elected to be the President-elect for the Medical and Dental Staff at Children’s Medical Center Dallas (2017-2019). Dr. Mittal is a graduate of Academic Pediatric Association (APA) Educational Scholars Program (ESP) and has been a mentor for the program. She founded the APA Family-Centered Care Special Interest Group (SIG) in 2008 and was elected to Co-chair the APA Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) SIG. In this role, she served as a member of the PHM annual conference planning committee, member of Joint Council of the PHM and member of the PHM and American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Sub-board Certification Petition and Leadership group. She co-chaired the annual PHM conference in 2015. In 2017, after the PHM subspecialty petition was approved, Dr. Mittal accepted the position to be a Medical Editor at the ABP PHM Sub-board. In this role, she will serve as a content expert for the PHM Certification exam. Education Medical School Seth G.S. Medical College (1994) Residency Seth G.S. Medical College and K.E.M. Hospital (1998), Pediatrics Fellowship The Canberra Hospital, University of Sydney (2000), Neonatal-perinatal Medicine Fellowship Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (2002), Pediatrics & Child Health Residency Rhode Island Hospital (2005), Pediatrics Graduate School UT Dallas/Naveen Jindal School of Management (2015), Health Care Organization & Leadership Research Interest Bronchiolitis Evidence-based medicine Family-centered rounds Healthcare IT Quality improvement Value-based care Publications Physicians Outperform Large Language Models in Pediatric Discharge Summary Generation Bain AP, Wilson A, Webb J, Ngai D, Martinez K, Twumasi A, Vallala S, Cullinan K, Blazek M, Singh G, Mittal VS, Lehmann C, Bernard P Hospital Pediatrics 2026 Feb 16 175-182 Our moral imperative to rethink leadership: A call for modern leaders Shah NH, O'Toole J, Mittal V, Overholser B, Spector ND Journal of hospital medicine 2025 Sep 20 1012-1014 Trends in resource utilization for new-onset psychosis hospitalizations at children's hospitals Gupta A, Hall M, Masserano B, Wilson A, Johnson K, Chen C, Challa L, Katragadda H, Mittal V Journal of hospital medicine 2025 Jul 20 710-726 Pediatric hospital condition consolidation in US hospitals Hall M, Harris M, Bettenhausen J, Hall M, Mittal V, Wright SM, Colvin JD Journal of hospital medicine 2025 Child Health Needs and the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Workforce: 2020–2040 Harrison WN, Mittal VS, O’Toole JK, Quinonez RA, Mink R, Leyenaar JA Pediatrics 2024 Feb 153 Pharmacologic Restraint Use During Mental Health Admissions to Children’s Hospitals Masserano B, Hall M, Wolf R, Diederich A, Gupta A, Yu AG, Johnson K, Mittal V Pediatrics 2024 Jan 153 Sustaining Long-Term Asthma Outcomes at a Community and Tertiary Care Pediatric Hospital Bradley SV, Hall M, Rajan DS, Johnston J, Ondrasek E, Chen C, Mittal V Hospital Pediatrics 2023 Feb 13 130-137 Mind the Gap: Women in Pediatric Hospital Medicine Mittal V Hospital Pediatrics 2022 Feb 12 E86-E88 A Step-Wise Approach to Equity: Implementing Effective Policies and Programs in Pediatrics Shaughnessy EE, Mittal V 2022 Jan 123-133 Harnessing the electronic health record and computerized provider order entry data for resource management during the COVID-19 pandemic: Development of a decision tree Luu HS, Filkins LM, Park JY, Rakheja D, Tweed J, Menzies C, Wang VJ, Mittal V, Lehmann CU, Sebert ME JMIR Medical Informatics 2021 Oct 9 Results 1-10 of 37 1 2 3 4 Next Last Books Featured Books Diseases Unique to the Newborn. In Shah SS, Alverson B, Ronan J, eds. Step-Up to Pediatrics. Mittal V. (2014). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 391-430. Honors & Awards Best Doctors in DallasD Magazine (2016) President Elect, Medical Dental StaffChildren's Medical Center Dallas (2016) Core Clerkship Teaching AwardUT Southwestern Medical School (2011) Faculty Teaching AwardPediatric Residency Program, UT Southwestern Medical School (2010-2012) Faculty Teaching AwardSaint Peter's University Hospital, NJ (2006) Co-Chair, Inpatient Operational CommitteeSaint Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ (2005-2007) Member of Educational CommitteeSaint Peter's University Hospital Pediatric Residency Program, New Brunswick, NJ (2005-2007) Resident Teaching AwardHasbro Children's Hospital, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI (2004) Senior Registrar (Chief Resident)Department of Pediatrics, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India (0) Professional Associations/Affiliations Academic Pediatric Association (2007) American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow (2006) PHM Inaugural Pediatric Hospital Medicine Certification Group (2016)
