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Elizabeth H. Thilo, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Chair, Resident Recruitment and Selection Committee

Elizabeth H. Thilo, MD, earned her medical degree in 1976 from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She completed her Pediatric Residency, including a Chief Resident year, at the Ohio State University and Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, in 1980, and a Fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine in 1982. She initially joined the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine and The Children’s Hospital in 1982. Since 2002 she has served as Chair of the Resident Recruitment and Selection Committee for the Department of Pediatrics.

Dr. Thilo’s scientific interests include early adrenal insufficiency in ELBW infants, and the concept of relative adrenal insufficiency in critically ill infants in general, including the possible beneficial effect of steroid replacement therapy in sepsis syndrome in the term and near-term infant; early newborn discharge for both term and premature infants; noninvasive monitoring techniques, especially pulse oximetry; prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia; newborn transition and the effects of altitude; and pain management in the neonate.

Dr. Thilo is an active member of many institutional committees. She is a peer reviewer for several professional medical journals and has published extensively in the medical literature. Recently she was named one of the “Best Doctors in America.”

Dr. Thilo is board certified in Pediatrics and in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.


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Departmental Affiliation:

Neonatology
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Publications in PubMed - click for a partial list of publications with links to abstracts, at the National Library of Medicine PubMed website


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