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Desiree Noel Wagner Neville, MD

  • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
  • Director, Point-of-Care Ultrasound
  • Clinical Skills Preceptor for Three Rivers Curriculum, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Neville is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and is the Director of Emergency point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). She has built a body of work that includes educational curricula and innovative teaching platforms that have advanced the POCUS education both within her division and throughout UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She serves as Director of the Pediatric Resident POCUS elective. She also facilitates simulation-based education. Neville's research focus is on Pediatric Lyme Disease. She developed the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Lyme disease Clinical Effectiveness Guideline that is used throughout the hospital system. She serves as the site PI for Pedi Lyme Net, a research collaborative of Emergency Medicine departments in Lyme endemic areas. Through this collaboration she has disseminated their work in publications and presentations at national meetings, and they have created a Pediatric Lyme Disease Biobank repository housed at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Professional and Scientific Society Memberships

  • American Academy of Pediatrics: Section on Emergency Medicine
    • SOEM Special Interest Group

Education & Training

  • BS, Bioengineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2006
  • MD, University of Virginia, 2010
  • Residency in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2010-2013
  • Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2013-2016

Selected Publications

Neville DN, Hayes KR, Ivan Y, McDowell ER, Pitetti RD. Double-blind randomized controlled trial of intranasal dexmedetomidine versus intranasal midazolam as anxiolysis prior to pediatric laceration repair in the emergency department. Acad Emerg Med. 2016 Aug; 23(8):910-7. PMID: 27129606

Nigrovic LE, Neville DN, Balamuth F, Bennett JE, Levas MN, Garro AC for Pedi Lyme Net. A minority of children with Lyme disease recall a preceding tick bite. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2019 Apr;10(3):694-696. PMID: 30853264

Nigrovic LE, Neville DN, Balamuth F, Levas MN, Bennett JE, Kharbanda AB, Thompson AD, Branda JA, Garro AC; Pedi Lyme Net Working Group. Pediatric Lyme Disease Biobank, United States, 2015-2020.Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Dec;26(12):3099-3101. PMID: 33219811

Cramer N, Cantwell L, Ong H, Sivasankar SM, Graff D, Lawson SL, Wilson PM, Noorbakhsh KA, Mickley M, Zuckerbraun NS, Sobolewski B, Soung JK, Azhdam DB, Neville DNW, Hincapie MD, Marin JR. Pediatric emergency medicine fellowship point-of-care ultrasound training in 2020. AEM Educ Train. 2021 Aug 1. PMID: 34568713

Neville DN, Alexander ME, Bennett JE, Balamuth F, Garro A, Levas MN, Thompson AD, Kharbanda AB, Lewander DP, Dart AH, Nigrovic LE; Pedi Lyme Net. Electrocardiogram as a Lyme Disease Screening Test. J Pediatr. 2021 Jul 12. PMID: 34265339

Lyons TW, Kharbanda AB, Thompson AD, Bennett JE, Balamuth F, Levas MN, Neville DN, Lewander DP, Bretscher BS, Kellogg MD, Nigrovic LE; Pedi Lyme Net. A Clinical Prediction Rule for Bacterial Musculoskeletal Infections in Children with Monoarthritis in Lyme Endemic Regions. Ann Emerg Med. 2022 May 25:S0196-0644(22)00246-3. PMID: 35643775

Garro AC, Thompson AD, Neville DN, Balamuth F, Levas MN, Kharbanda AB, Bennett JE, Grant DS, Aresco RK, Nigrovic LE; Pedi Lyme Net Network. Empiric antibiotics for children with suspected Lyme disease. Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2022 Sep;13(5):101989. Epub 2022 Jun 14. PMID: 35759989

Hunt KM, Michelson KA, Balamuth F, Thompson AD, Levas MN, Neville DN, Kharbanda A, Chapman L, Nigrovic LE; for Pedi Lyme Net. Racial differences in the diagnosis of Lyme disease in children. Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Oct 31. PMID: 36314085

Nigrovic LE, Neville DN, Chapman L, Balamuth F, Levas MN, Thompson AD, Kharbanda AB, Gerstbrein D, Branda JA, Buchan BW; for Pedi Lyme Net. Multiplex High-Definition Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for the Diagnosis of Tick-borne Infections in Children. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Mar 20;10(4):ofad121. PMID: 37089773

Kahane CG, Nigrovic LE, Kharbanda AB, Neville D, Thompson AD, Balamuth F, Chapman L, Levas MN, Branda JA, Kellogg MD, Monuteaux MC, Lyons TW; Pedi Lyme Net. Biomarkers for Pediatric Bacterial Musculoskeletal Infections in Lyme Disease-Endemic Regions. Pediatrics. 2023 Jul 6:e2023061329. PMID: 37409396

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