Keila Lopez, MD, MPH

Director of Transition Medicine & Pediatric Cardiologist, Texas Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine
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Keila Lopez, MD, MPH, is a Director of Transition Medicine & Pediatric Cardiologist at  Texas Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor in Pediatrics-Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Lopez is interested in healthcare disparities in pediatric cardiology, including those involving transitions from pediatric to adult medicine. She is collaborating with the Texas Department of State Health Services on epidemiological studies of congenital heart disease in Texas. Dr. Lopez is also an advanced imager in pediatric cardiology. In 2021, she was named a Paul V. Miles Fellow by the American Board of Pediatrics. In this role, she will give grand rounds at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University and will address the American Board of Pediatrics about quality-of-care improvement for children.

Dr. Lopez received her medical degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 2003 and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Chicago in 2006. After completing the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University and receiving her Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2008, she completed her fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine in 2011.