Dr. Goss brings to UT Southwestern experience in both preclinical models and clinical studies of the long term cardiopulmonary sequelae of premature birth, as well as management of pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure.

Originally from Texas, Dr. Goss is thrilled to finally be home again. After medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, she completed combined residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics followed by Adult Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at Indiana University in Indianapolis. During training, she became fascinated by the potential for long term cardiopulmonary sequelae after extreme premature birth. As survival rates have markedly improved over the past three decades even for the smallest infants, a new generation of individuals born extremely preterm is now aging into adulthood. This interest led her to the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI to study a unique adult cohort of survivors of extreme preterm birth. Dr. Goss and collaborators identified subclinical pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular dysfunction, and impaired cardiac growth in otherwise healthy young adults born preterm, clearly demonstrating the potential for late complications from extreme preterm birth.

Dr. Goss’s clinical practice focus is on pulmonary hypertension as well as cardiopulmonary evaluation of adults born premature. Her research utilizes established UT Southwestern neonatal databases and infrastructure, in conjunction with preclinical models, to study the late cardiopulmonary manifestations of preterm birth and identify implications for treatment and lifetime health.