Lorraine Bautista, M.D.

Biography

Lorraine Bautista, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in neonatal-perinatal medicine.

Dr. Bautista earned her medical degree at Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara in Mexico. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso with a distinction in border health and received advanced training in neonatal-perinatal medicine through a fellowship at UT Southwestern. She also holds a master’s degree in public health from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

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

Dr. Bautista serves on several UT Southwestern committees, including as chair of and faculty mentor for the NICU Fellowship QI Education Committee, faculty mentor for the NICU Fellowship Wellness Committee, and member of Parkland Memorial Hospital’s Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Task Force Committee.

She served as a member of the 2021 Advocacy Campaign Committee for TECaN (Trainees and Early Career Neonatologists), a group within the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She is also a Neonatal Resuscitation Program provider and instructor.