Overview
Dr. Hickok specializes in pediatric cardiac critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. She re-joined the hospital staff in 2025. Having previously served in a similar role from 2016-2019. In the interim, she was an attending physician in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Tampa. She earned her medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville. She completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill. She then completed a fellowship in pediatric critical care at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., followed by a cardiovascular intensive care unit fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.
Dr. Hickok is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Gastrostomy. Her top areas of expertise are Malnutrition and Gastrostomy.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 4 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Gastrostomy.
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Locations
501 6th Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
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Areas of Expertise
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Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
- Experienced
- GastrostomyDr. Hickok isExperienced. Learn about Gastrostomy.
- MalnutritionDr. Hickok isExperienced. Learn about Malnutrition.