Neonatologist, Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Adam S. Bauer, MD is associate professor (CHS) in the Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery. As the medical director of Perinatal-Neonatal Cardiac Collaboration, he works with Fetal Cardiology to meet with expecting parents who have a fetus with a diagnosed congenital heart disease. Collaboratively, this team helps create a delivery plan with the family to support the safe resuscitation of a neonate with complex congenital heart disease, plan for the neonatal pre-surgical care, and discuss what the first couple months of life may hold. Bauer’s research interests focus around point of care ultrasound (POCUS) and neonates with congenital heart disease. He is active in the National Neonatal POCUS Collaboration (NeoPocusCollab), sitting on both the Steering Committee and Co-Chairing the Communications sub-committee. In the NICU, he collaborates with his colleagues to evaluate the safety of using POCUS in neonates. Additionally, he works within the UW Clinical Simulation Center and the University of Wisconsin Biomedical Engineering Department to create simulation trainer models to teach neonatal providers how to use POCUS to improve procedural skills for intervention. Bauer runs an ongoing clinical study using POCUS to help determine extubation readiness in neonates intubated on mechanical ventilation. He frequently works with trainees to improve medical education in the NICU, procedural skills, and the teaching and use of POCUS. He researches preterm neonates with congenital heart disease to better understand optimal feeding regimens and optimal timing of transfer to a surgical hospital to decrease the risk of intraventricular hemorrhage during transport. Bauer believes that engagement in advocacy is essential for pediatricians. He routinely advocates for parental voter registration and gun violence prevention.