“I have always felt that academic centered healthcare was the best fit for me,” Dolma said, “because it not only gives me an opportunity to practice evidence-based medicine, but it also offers a platform to share that knowledge with the next generation.”
Dolma works as a neonatologist within the Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital. As many as 80 premature infants are cared for in the NICU each day. Part of her role includes giving monthly presentations to medical students and advanced practice providers.
“Neonatal-perinatal medicine is a field that is rapidly growing,” Dolma said. “It is extremely important to keep ourselves updated on the latest research. For me, giving lectures is the best way to quickly share that information with students and colleagues.”
Her major research interest is in the field of pulmonary lung biology and pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) as it relates to the airways of preterm infants who have an increased risk for developing lung diseases.
The ability to help newborns thrive drew Dolma to a career in neonatology: “For a mother, a newborn baby means the world to her. And by providing the best clinical care, we can give a mother back her world.”
Dolma is board certified in pediatrics. She earned a medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College at Delhi University in India. She completed a pediatric residency at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine and a neonatology fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
“Children's & Women's Hospital has a very special place in my heart,” she said. “I did my pediatric residency here and I also had my child at this hospital. It will always remain special to me.”
