KaraLin Root, D.O., F.A.A.P.
ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS 18 YEARS OLD & UNDER
Dr. KaraLin Root provides care at both SWCC Medical Center and SWCC Hill Country locations.
Dr. KaraLin Root is a board-certified pediatrician who joined Southwest Children’s Center in 2018. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas A&M University at College Station in 2011. She received her medical degree from the UNTHSC in Fort Worth, and completed her pediatric residency at Baylor College of Medicine in San Antonio.
Dr. Root met her husband, Jacob Root, in college and they now have three children; two boys and a girl. They spend most of their time away from work playing outside with their boys and their labradoodle. They enjoy good food and wine, and being outdoors.
Some of her work-related passions include newborn care and counseling, breastfeeding and lactation support, and positive parenting/discipline.
AWARDS:
Texas Monthly Magazine
Texas Super Doctors® Award (2025)
Texas Rising Stars® Award (2021-2024)
Scene In S.A. Magazine
Outstanding Women of Medicine Award (2022-2023)
Best Doctors Award (2021)
OTHER:
- NBC News Appearance (2022)
- SA Scene® Magazine | Best Doctors Award (2020)
- SA Scene® Magazine | Best Female Doctors Award (2021)
- Humanism in Medicine (2014)
- Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (2011)
- SAPS Member of Inaugural Resident Chapter
Currently accepting new patients?
Yes
