Email

howard.chao@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Pediatrics - Newborn
Neonatology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Education

BS from Rice University

06/2007 - Houston, Texas United States

Chemical Engineering

MD from University of Texas Southwestern

06/2017 - Dallas, Texas United States

Residency at University of California, San Francisco

06/2020 - San Francisco, California United States

Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine

06/2023 - Houston, Texas United States

Certifications

Texas State Medical License

American Board of Pediatrics

Professional Interests

• non-invasive monitoring
• neonatal hemodynamics
• cerebral autoregulation
• POCUS

Selected Publications

• Howard Chao, Sebastian Acosta, Craig Rusin, Christopher Rhee "Comparison of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy-Based Cerebral Autoregulatory Indices in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants." Children. 2023 Aug 9;10(8) Pubmed PMID: 37628360
• Henry Han, Howard Chao, Andres Guerra, Alan Sosa, Georgios Christopoulos, Georgios E Christakopoulos, Bavana V Rangan, Spyros Maragkoudakis, Hani Jneid, Subhash Banerjee, Emmanouil S Brilakis "Evolution of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Clinical Guidelines." J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015 Jun;65(25):2726-34. Pubmed PMID: 26112197
• Alan Sosa, Howard Chao, Andres Guerra, Henry Han, Georgios Christopoulos, Georgios E Christakopoulos, Muhammad Nauman J Tarar, James A de Lemos, Owen Obel, Tayo Addo, Michele Roesle, Donald Haagen, Bavana V Rangan, Subhash Banerjee, Emmanouil S Brilakis "Paclitaxel-eluting vs. bare metal stent implantation in saphenous vein graft lesions: Very long-term follow-up of the SOS (Stenting of Saphenous vein grafts) trial." Int J Cardiol. 2015 May;186:261-263. Pubmed PMID: 25828130
• Andres Guerra, Bavana V Rangan, Ameka Coleman, Hao Xu, Anna Kotsia, Georgios Christopoulos, Alan Sosa, Howard Chao, Henry Han, Guthbudeen Abdurrahim, Michele Roesle, James A de Lemos, Darren K McGuire, Milton Packer, Subhash Banerjee, Emmanouil S Brilakis "Effect of Extended-Release Niacin on Carotid Intima Media Thickness, Reactive Hyperemia, and Endothelial Progenitor Cell Mobilization." J Invasive Cardiol. 2015 Dec;27(12):555-60. Pubmed PMID: 26630643