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Biography
BriAnna Souder, D.O., M.S., is a Pediatric Cardiologist at Children’s Health℠. Her care focuses on fetal echocardiography, single ventricle disease and infants with congenital heart disease along with general pediatric cardiology.
The ability to maintain continuity of care from prior to birth until adulthood is a great joy and honor of this specialty.
Dr. Souder earned her M.S. in Medical Science and her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the University of North Texas Health Science Center. She completed her residency in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Duke University and a fellowship in quality improvement, patient safety and advanced cardiac imaging at Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Souder is passionate about quality improvement, an area of medicine that strives to keep making medicine and health care better. She also conducts cardiology research, and many of her research projects focus on best practices and techniques for cardiac imaging.
“I love to be a guide for patients and their families through difficult times,” Dr. Souder says. “Additionally, the ability to maintain continuity of care from prior to birth until adulthood is a great joy and honor of this specialty. I will always advocate for my patients, whatever the need may be.”
Outside of work, Dr. Souder enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters. She loves to travel, cook, bake and stay active.
Treatments
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Advanced Echocardiographic Imaging
- Fetal echocardiography
- Single ventricle disease
- Infants with congenital heart disease
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Publications
- HD, Denfield SW, Kim JJ, Landstrom AP. Amino acid-level signal-to-noise analysis aids in pathogenicity prediction of incidentally-identified TTN-encoded titin truncating variants. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2021. Feb;14(1):e003131. PMID: 33226272
- Burggren, W, Souder, BM, Ho, DH. Effects of Density and Sex on Metabolic Rate and Hypoxia Tolerance in Fruit Flies (Drosophila melanogaster). Biology Open. 2017 Apr 15; 6(4): 471-480.PMCID: PMC5399560. PMID: 28202465.
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Professional Activities
- American Heart Association
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Society of Echocardiography
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Awards and Honors
- William R. Jenkins, DO, FACOS Chair’s Award in Surgery (2017)
- Excellence in Pediatrics Award (2017)
- Gold TOUCH award (over 100 community service hours) (2013-2014, 2014-2015 and 2016-2017)
- Silver TOUCH award (over 50 community service hours) (2015-2016)
- Sigma Sigma Phi Inductee (2014)
- Honor’s Women’s Health Course (2015)