Rachael Hyland, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Primary Office
Current Positions
- Clinical Assistant Professor - Pediatrics
Education
- B.A. in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Minor in Music, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
- M.D. in Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
- Pediatric Residency, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- Chief Fellow, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- Neonatal Hemodynamics Fellowship, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
Research Interests
- • Hemodynamic consequences of intrauterine growth restriction
- • Neonatal hemodynamics
Licenses & Certifications
- Certification in BLS, PALS, NRP
- Certification in General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
- Iowa Medical License
- Certificate of Advanced Training in Neonatal ECMO
- Neonatal Hemodynamics and Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography
- Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics
Selected Publications
- Sehgal A, Buckingham MR, Hyland RM, McNamara PJ. Diagnostic and therapeutic precision in cardiovascular diseases in the neonatal intensive care. J Perinatol. 2025 May 10. doi: 10.1038/s41372-025-02317-x. Online ahead of print. PMID: 4034894.
- Wren JT Jr, Hyland RM, Acosta S, McNamara PJ. Safety and Feasibility of Early Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography and a Focused Assessment Protocol in Neonates With Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. Echocardiography. 2025; May;42(5):e70189. doi: 10.1111/echo.70189. PMID: 40358608. PMCID: PMC12072237.
- Lorenger LE, Boly TJ, Hyland RM, Bermick JR. Longitudinal inflammatory biomarker profiling in intrauterine growth restricted preterm infants. Cytokine. 2025 Jun; 190:156916. doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2025.156916. Epub 2025 Mar 25. PMID: 40138981. PMCID: PMC12021550.
- Hyland RM, Levy PT, Lai WW, McNamara PJ. Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography Based Hemodynamic Consultation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Subspecialty Evolution in Neonatology. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2025 Jan;38(1):52-53. oi: 10.1016/j.echo.2024.09.014. Epub 2024 Oct 29. PMID: 39477167.
- Hyland RM. Prematurity and Cardiac Disease, Tretter & Anderson’s Pediatric Cardiology, Jan 2024.
- Karimi M, Rahde Bischoff A, Riley E, Zerwic L, McNamara PJ, Hyland RM, Ashwath A. Echocardiographic evaluation of left atrial volume and comparative analysis to left atrial to aortic root ratio in premature neonates and infants with patent ductus arteriosus. Echocardiography. Aug 2024. DOI: 10.1111/echo.15890. PMID: 39043208.
- Aleem NA, Wren J, Ruoss JL, Hyland RM, Stanford A, Thomas B, Giesinger RE, McNamara PJ. Neonatal cardiac POCUS – A survey of academic neonatal centers in the United States. J Perinatol Sept 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41372-024-02108-w. PMID: 39251747.
- Horani A, Gupta DK, Xu J, Xu H, Puga-Molina LC, Santi CM, Ramagiri S, Brennen SK, Pan J, Huant T, Hyland RM, Gunsten SP, Tzeng SC, Strahle JM, Mill P, Mahjoub MR, Dutcher SK, Brody SL. The effect of DNAAF5 gene dosage on primary ciliary dyskinesia phenotypes. BioRxiv 2023 Jan 14. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.13.523966. PMID: 37104040. PMCID: PMC10393236.
- Hyland RM, Brody SL. Impact of motile ciliopathies on human development and clinical consequences in the newborn. Cells. 2022 Jan;11(125). https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11010125. PMID: 35011687. PMCID: PMC8750550.
- Fewell [Hyland RM], Dutcher SK. Basal feet: walking to the discovery of a novel hybrid cilium. Dev Cell. 2020 Oct;55(2)115-117. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.09.018. PMID: 33108752.