New faculty spotlight: Danny Hames, MD

Danny Hames, MD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.

• Name: Danny Hames, MD
• Title and department with UNMC and Children’s Nebraska: Assistant professor, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, UNMC Department of Pediatrics; pediatric cardiac intensivist, Children’s Nebraska.   
• Hometown: Omaha

Research interests:

• Quality improvement
• Risk analytics
• Respiratory care in congenital heart disease          

How I fell in love with my field:      

I was torn between several areas of medicine when I spent a rotation in the pediatric intensive care unit during my fourth year of medical school. It was during that rotation that I realized I loved the interaction between physiology and patient care. I loved thinking through different organ systems and evidence-based care for each therapy provided and how that came together to treat critically ill children. As I got further into my training, I enjoyed thinking through things at a systems level to ensure quality care and patient safety are involved in each decision we make.

Education:     

• Bachelor of science, Creighton University, 2008
• Medical degree, Creighton University, 2012
• Residency in pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical Center, 2015
• Fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, 2018
• Fellowship in pediatric cardiac critical care, Boston Children’s Hospital, 2019
• Master of Public Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 2024

Memberships:

• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society

Three things people might not know about me:

• My favorite place to vacation is Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine.
• I lived in Boston for 13 years and became an avid Boston sports fan.
• I ran cross country at Creighton for one season while in college.

Clinical location: Children’s Nebraska Critical Care Unit