Amy Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.

Pediatrics - Emergency Medicine
Diagnostic accuracy and reliability
Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Biography

Amy Zhou, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in pediatric emergency medicine.

Dr. Zhou earned her medical degree and doctoral degree in molecular biophysics at UT Southwestern Medical School. She completed a residency in pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and received advanced training in pediatric emergency medicine through a fellowship at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2021.

Dr. Zhou is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the AAP’s Section on Emergency Medicine and Section on Early Career Physicians. She has delivered numerous lectures and presentations and published multiple academic articles.

Her clinical and research interests include diagnostic accuracy and reliability and point-of-care ultrasound.

Education & Training

Medical School - UT Southwestern Medical School (2007-2015)
Other Post Graduate Training - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2007-2015)
Residency - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2015-2018), Pediatrics
Fellowship - Northwestern University/McGaw Medical Center (2018-2021), Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Professional Associations & Affiliations

American Academy of Pediatrics

Honors & Awards

Best Poster in Clinical Research - Child Health Research Day 2018, Mount Sinai Hospital
Sigma-Aldrich Student Travel Award 2012, International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems

Books & Publications

Publications
- Emergency department diagnosis and management of constipation in the United States, 2006-2017.
  Zhou AZ, Lorenz D, Simon NJ, Florin TA, The American journal of emergency medicine 2022 Feb 54 91-96
- Serious diagnoses at revisits in children discharged from the emergency department with back pain.
  Zhou AZ, Marin JR, Hickey RW, Lam SK, Ramgopal S, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2021 Jul
- Rates of Presentation, Treatments and Serious Neurologic Disorders Among Children and Young Adults Presenting to US Emergency Departments With Headache.
  Ramgopal S, Zhou AZ, Hickey RW, Marin JR, Journal of child neurology 2021 05 36 6 475-481
- Serious Diagnoses for Headaches After ED Discharge.
  Zhou AZ, Marin JR, Hickey RW, Ramgopal S, Pediatrics 2020 11 146 5
- Interobserver Agreement of Inferior Vena Cava Ultrasound Collapse Duration and Correlated Outcomes in Children With Dehydration.
  Zhou AZ, Green RS, Haines EJ, Vazquez MN, Tay ET, Tsung JW, Pediatric emergency care 2020 Jun
- Sonographic Evaluation and Monitoring of Pneumoperitoneum After Air Enema Reduction for Intussusception.
  Zhou AZ, Toporowski A, Tsung JW, Pediatric emergency care 2019 Jul 35 7 e133-e134
- Dynamic binding mode of a Synaptotagmin-1-SNARE complex in solution.
  Brewer KD, Bacaj T, Cavalli A, Camilloni C, Swarbrick JD, Liu J, Zhou A, Zhou P, Barlow N, Xu J, Seven AB, Prinslow EA, Voleti R, Häussinger D, Bonvin AM, Tomchick DR, Vendruscolo M, Graham B, Südhof TC, Rizo J Nature structural & molecular biology 2015 Jun
- Structure and ca(2+)-binding properties of the tandem c2 domains of e-syt2.
  Xu J, Bacaj T, Zhou A, Tomchick DR, Südhof TC, Rizo J Structure (London, England : 1993) 2014 Feb 22 2 269-80
- Analysis of SNARE complex/synaptotagmin-1 interactions by one-dimensional NMR spectroscopy.
  Zhou A, Brewer KD, Rizo J, Biochemistry 2013 May 52 20 3446-56
- Simulation and implementation of magnetic bandages for drug targeting: button magnets versus Halbach arrays
  Häfeli UO, Gilmour K, Zhou A, Lee S, Hayden ME Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 2007 311 1 323?329

Research

Diagnostic accuracy and reliability
Point-of-care ultrasound

Clinical Focus

Diagnostic accuracy and reliability
Point-of-Care Ultrasound