Amanda Puro, M.D.

Amanda Puro, M.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Dell Medical School and an attending physician in the pediatric intensive care unit at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas. She is originally from Michigan and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan and subsequently earned her medical degree from Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine. Her pediatric and chief residency training was completed at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, after which she moved to Chicago, Illinois, for her fellowship in pediatric critical care at Northwestern University’s Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. Following the completion of training, she moved to Austin to join the pediatric critical care group at Dell Children’s in 2019.

Over the course of her training, Puro has done clinical, quality improvement and laboratory research. Through these ventures, she has accumulated valuable experiences that led her to her academic focus in quality improvement and the implementation of best practices. She acts as a physician champion of quality improvement in the PICU and sits on multiple hospital and ICU committees, including committees on sepsis, pain management and morbidity-mortality. She is also the co-director of the Dell Seton Medical Center code blue committee. In addition to research and quality improvement, Puro enjoys educating, mentoring and working with residents and advanced practice providers in the PICU and is looking forward to having fellows join the team. Clinically, she is passionate about the need for colleagues, patients, and families to collaborate, and the pathophysiology of ICU medicine.

Outside of the PICU, Puro loves spending time with her husband and new daughter. They cannot wait until she is older and can explore all that Austin has to offer with her: food, trails, sports, music and the arts.