Ashley Lucke, M.D.

Ashley Lucke, M.D., is a board-certified neonatologist in the Comprehensive Fetal Care Center, a clinical partnership between Dell Children’s Medical Center and UT Health Austin. She specializes in coordinating fetal-to-neonatal care for complex fetal conditions. Additionally, Lucke is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Dell Medical School.

Lucke earned her medical degree from Florida State University College of Medicine and her bachelor’s in nutrition from the University of Florida. She completed both a residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Children’s Medical Center Dallas/UT Southwestern Medical Center, a fellowship in neonatology at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine and a second fellowship in fetal neurology and transitional medicine at Children’s National Hospital.

Lucke serves as the legislative and policy lead to Dell Children’s Pediatric Advocacy Committee and as the associate program director for the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship program at Dell Med and Dell Children’s. Her clinical and research interests include fetal and neonatal neurology and complex prenatal consultation for multiple congenital anomalies. She is a staunch maternal and child health advocate and is passionate about uniting research and advocacy interests to advance neonatal care. As a clinical educator, Lucke’s interests include career mentorship and quality improvement.

She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, of which she formerly served as both section chairperson and chair of two national advocacy campaigns related to firearm injury prevention and neonatal abstinence syndrome. Lucke currently serves in a national leadership position within the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She is also a member of both the Gold Humanism Honor Society and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.

In her free time, Lucke enjoys watching her two boys play little league baseball and kayaking on Lady Bird Lake.