Eileen Merkle Stewart MD

Summary

• Eileen Stewart, MD, is a board-certified pediatric and fetal cardiologist in the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, a clinical partnership between Dell Children’s Medical Center and UT Health Austin. She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired heart conditions in infants, children, adolescents, and during pregnancy. Additionally, Dr. Stewart is an associate professor in the Dell Medical School Department of Pediatrics at The University of Texas at Austin.
  
  She earned her bachelor’s degree in zoology from Miami University and her medical degree from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. She completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of New Mexico Children’s Hospital and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
  
  Dr. Stewart serves as the Medical Director of the IMPACT Program, which provides care for high-complexity cardiac infants, as well as the Cardiac Feeding Program and is the Co-Director of the Central Texas Fetal Heart Center. Her research interests include improving outcomes for single ventricle patients and addressing feeding and nutrition in cardiac infants. Dr. Stewart is a pediatric and fetal cardiologist with UT Health Austin.