Adam S. Bauer, MD

Education

BS, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin
MD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
Residency, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Fellowship, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Professional Activities

Dr. Adam S. Bauer 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 believes that engagement in advocacy is essential for pediatricians. He routinely advocates for parental voter registration and gun violence prevention.

Clinical Interests

Bauer is a neonatologist who provides high-quality care for premature and critically ill infants of all gestational ages. He is committed to ensuring that families understand what the medical team does around the time of birth to help support their babies. He is particularly interested in improving the care of neonates born with congenital heart disease. Within an interdisciplinary team, Bauer has improved the birth planning and early resuscitation needs for neonates with congenital heart disease, helps set-up the complex resuscitation needs for neonates with congenital heart disease who require delivery at American Family Children’s Hospital, and the care of neonates prenatally diagnosed with concerns for coarctation of the aorta by increasing bonding time of these babies with their families while still safely monitoring in the newborn nursery.

Research Interests

Bauer’s research interests focus around point of care ultrasound (POCUS) and neonates with congenital heart disease. 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, such as lumbar puncture, peripherally inserted central catheter placement, pericardiocentesis, and needle thoracentesis. Bauer runs an ongoing clinical study using POCUS to help determine extubation readiness in neonates intubated on mechanical ventilation. He frequently works with neonatology fellows and pediatric residents to improve medical education in the NICU, procedural skills, and the teaching and use of POCUS. Working with trainees, advanced practice providers, and others, he evaluates the data of our own patients with congenital heart disease to better understand optimal feeding regimens for preterm neonates with congenital heart disease, optimal timing of transfer to American Family Children’s hospital in the same patient population to decrease the risk of intraventricular hemorrhage during transport, and evaluates the successful placement of central umbilical lines in this patient population to better effectively care and treat these patients.