- medical school: Rush Medical College at Rush University
- residency: ACMC Hope Children’s Hospital
- internship: ACMC Hope Children’s Hospital
- board certification: Pediatrics
Heather Dyer, MD, has over 15 years of experience caring for pediatric inpatients and serves as chief, division of hospitalist medicine at Dayton Children's. This team of pediatricians, known as “hospitalists,” specializes in caring for children and teens while they are admitted to the hospital. For most patients admitted to the general pediatric units, pediatric hospitalists serve as the lead physician coordinating the overall plan of care and collaborating with nurses and teams of specialists inside the hospital, as well as the child's pediatrician outside the hospital, to ensure the best treatment and outcomes.
