Dr. Vedanta Dariya
Neonatal Intensivist
Children's Health
Dr. Vedanta Dariya attended medical school in Mumbai, India at the Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical
College. He did his Pediatric residency at Louisiana State University Health Sciences
Center in Shreveport and completed his fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. Dr. Dariya moved to
Dallas and joined the faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center where he is currently an
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and a
board-certified neonatal intensivist at the level IV NICU at the Children’s Medical
Center in Dallas.
Dr. Dariya has held many titles, chief among them the Associate Medical Director of the
NICU at Children’s Health, Dallas. He currently serves as the Director of NICU transport
and outreach at Children’s, Dallas. His research and clinical interests are varied. He is
actively involved in quality improvement initiatives to improve post-surgical care of
infants and improve intubations in the NICU. He is also involved in improving outcomes of
patients with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and is the Site Investigator for the
Neonatal Research Network study examining the use of Milrinone in that patient
population. As Director of NICU transport, he is interested in the use of tele-medicine
on transport and has successfully launched the Transport tele-cooling program for babies
born with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE).