Steven Neish, MD

Meet Steven Neish, MD

Dr. Steven Neish is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the Sub Board of Pediatric Cardiology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He has been named among the Best Doctors in America, Texas Monthly Super Doctors and Top Doctors in San Antonio numerous times. Throughout his career he has focused on improving care delivery for patients and families with congenital heart disease. He firmly believes that his practice of involving families in a child’s care helps achieve the best outcomes for treating congenital heart disease. His special interests include congenital heart disease, cardiovascular genetics, health care improvement, mentoring and sports cardiologist.

Born in South Dakota, Dr.Neish went to college and medical school at the University of South Dakota. He was a pediatric resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center followed by one year as a general pediatrician at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. He was a pediatric cardiology fellow at Texas Children’s Hospital. After fellowship, he was a pediatric cardiologist at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Colorado, including contributions at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. During his time in Colorado, he was deployed with the 1st Infantry Division as a part of Operation Desert Storm, serving in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait. He was awarded a Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Medical Badge. While in the Army, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After his time in the Army, he became Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine before returning to Texas Children’s Hospital.

At Texas Children’s Hospital, he was the Program Director for the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship, one of the premier fellowships in the U.S. In 2010, he joined the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. At UT Health San Antonio, he was Professor of Pediatrics, Chief of Pediatric Cardiology and Vice-Chair of the Department of Pediatrics.

He was an editor of the 2nd Edition of the Science and Practice of Pediatric Cardiology and the founding editor of eMedicine: Pediatrics, one of the first comprehensive online pediatric textbooks. As a pediatric resident, he demonstrated that resuscitation medications could be effectively delivered by intraosseous infusion in an experimental model before the use of intraosseous infusion was widely accepted as effective. As a pediatric cardiology fellow, he published experience using hybrid techniques for the treatment of severe aortic stenosis in newborns and infants, showing the value of collaboration between surgeons and cardiologists. In Colorado, he was a part of the team that pioneered the use of inhaled nitric oxide in treating critical pulmonary hypertension.

As a founding member of the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative, he worked to establish a unique collaborative to improve outcomes for hypoplastic left heart syndrome across the country. He was a co-director of the American Academy of Pediatrics Special Review in Pediatric Cardiology and a member of the Pediatric Resuscitation Subcommittee of the American Heart Association, contributing to the Pediatric Advanced Life Support certifying course. Dr. Neish is a graduate of the Healthcare Management program at Harvard School of Public Health and of the Advanced Training Program in Health Care Delivery Improvement at Intermountain Healthcare.

In his leisure time, Dr. Neish enjoys cycling, dogs, skiing and books.