She earned her MD at Creighton University, completed her pediatric residency at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to caring for patients at North Memorial Medical Center NICU, the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital NICU, and the Special Care Nursey at Maple Grove Hospital, Dr. Pylipow is the Medical Director for the Amplatz Children's Hospital NICU. She has special interests in the areas of neonatal nutrition, neurodevelopment, respiration, and cardiology.