Shailaja Hayden, M.D.

Shailaja Hayden, M.D., is an assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Dell Medical School. She supervises residents and medical students at Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas and strives to teach them to provide the most expert and compassionate care. She is co-director for the pulmonary section of the Mechanisms of Disease course for the first-year medical students and course director for the medical ICU rotation for the fourth-year medical students. Her outpatient practices focuses on interstitial lung disease, but she sees general pulmonary diseases as well. Hayden is known for her expert incorporation of palliative care medicine into her practice of pulmonary and critical care. She displays great enthusiasm when teaching, and she pushes everyone to do their best.