Faculty

Current and former members of the faculty have achieved considerable prominence nationally.

• Gilbert Forbes received the John Howland Medal, the highest honor in Academic Pediatrics, in 1992.
• Perrin White received the E. Mead Johnson Pediatric Research Award in 1996.
• George McCracken received the Maxwell Finland Award in 2004.
• George Lister received the Maureen Andrew Mentor Award of the Society for Pediatric Research and was elected Chairman of the Board of the American Board of Pediatrics in 2004, was elected to the Institute of Medicine National Academy of Sciences in 2006, and was elected President of the American Pediatric Society in 2008.
• George Buchanan received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology in 2007.
• Fangming Lin was the first recipient of the Norman Siegel Pediatric Research Grant Award from the American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology in 2007.
• Robert Wiebe was co-recipient of the Emergency Medical Services for Children National Heroes Award in 2007.
• Three members of the Department have been elected President of the Society for Pediatric Research: Joseph Warshaw in 1982, George Lister in 1993, and Philip Shaul in 2006.
• Seven pediatric faculty have received UT Southwestern’s President’s Research Council Distinguished Young Researcher Award: Michael Fant in 1986, Robert Bash in 1996, Steven Kernie in 2000, Michelle Gill and Matthew Porteus in 2004, Ralph DeBerardinis in 2008, and Kamal Bharucha in 2009.
• Andrew Koh and Jeffrey McKinney were Rhodes Scholars.
• 14 are listed in Best Doctors in America.
• 45 were listed by D Magazine as Best Pediatric Specialists in Dallas in 2010.

Administration

• Julio Pérez Fontán, MD, Professor, Interim Chair, Associate Dean for Pediatric Services and Program Development
  Joel B. Steinberg, M.D., Chair in Pediatrics

Allergy & Immunology

• Rebecca Gruchalla, MD, PhD, Professor, Division Director
  William A. Sellers, M.D., and Joyce M. Sellars Distinguished Chair in Allergy and Immunology
  
  • Drew Bird, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
  • Maite de la Morena, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
  • David Khan, MD, Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Indulekha Warrier, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine

Cardiology

• William A. Scott, MD, Professor, Division Director
  • Aliessa P. Barnes, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Shannon E. Blalock, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Sarah D. Blumenschein, MD, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Mark Clay, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Bibhuti B. Das, MD, Associate Professor
  • V. Vivian Dimas, MD, Assistant Professor
  • David E. Fixler, MD, Professor
    Dr. Fred S. Brooksaler Professorship in Pediatrics
  • Candace Gibbin, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Lisa C. Heistein, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Catherine M. Ikemba, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Amy Juraszek, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Pathology
  • Colin Kane, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Matthew S. Lemler, MD, Professor
  • George Lister, MD, Associate Dean for Education
    Robert L. Moore Chair in Pediatrics
  • Lynn Mahony, MD, Professor
  • Alan W. Nugent, MD, Associate Professor
  • Claudio Ramaciotti, MD, Professor
  • Poonam Punjwani Thankavel, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Surendranath Veeram Reddy, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Shawyntee Vertilus, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor
  • Thomas Zellers, MD, Professor, Chief Medical Officer, Children’s Medical Center
    Kathryne and Gene Bishop Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Care at Children's Medical Center
  • Ilana J. Zeltser, MD, Assistant Professor

Critical Care Medicine

• Peter Luckett, MD, Professor, Interim Division Director
  
  • Cindy Darnell Bowens, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Deborah Carlson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Surgery
  • Leticia Castillo, MD, Professor
    Thomas Fariss Marsh, Jr. Chair in Pediatrics
  • Carole M. R. Deally, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Archana Dhar, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Leslie Garner, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Michael Green, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Joshua D. Koch, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Darryl Miles, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Vinai Modini Modem, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Susan Morris, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Raymond Nkwantabisa, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Lakshmi Raman, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Margaret Schwarz, MD, Associate Professor
  • Maeve Sheehan, MD, Associate Professor
  • Paul Sheeran, MD, Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Pain Management and Pediatrics
  • James Thomas, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Molecular Biology
  • Marita Thompson, MD, Associate Professor
  • Joshua Wolovits, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Maria Teresa Zuluaga, MD, Assistant Professor

Emergency Medicine

• Halim Hennes, MD, Professor, Pediatrics and Surgery, Division Director
  • Mohamed Badawy, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Subhankar Bandyopadhyay, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Gordon Bruce, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
  • Nicole Corrigan, MD, Instructor
  • Philip Ewing, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Sing-Yi Feng, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Dane Fliedner, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor
  • Laura Galloway, MD, Instructor
  • Collin Goto, MD, Associate Professor
  • Craig J. Huang, MD, Associate Professor
  • Reagann McCreary, DO, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Surgery
  • Vicki Moore, DO, Instructor
  • Jo-Ann Nesiama, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Pamela Joy Okada, MD, Associate Professor
  • Jennifer Pape, MD, Instructor
  • Kalpesh Patel, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Susan M. Scott, MD, Associate Professor
  • Christina E. Seeley, MD, MPH, Instructor
  • Abbie L. Smith, MD, Instructor
  • Geetanjali Srivastava, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor
  • Dennis J. Tanner, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Mercedes Uribe, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Jessica Sharry Williams, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Kenneth Yen, MD, Associate Professor

Endocrinology

• Perrin White, MD, Professor, Division Director
  Audre Newman Rapoport Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Endocrinology
  
  • Soumya Adhikari, MD, Assistant Professor, Director, Medical Student Clerkship
  • Amy Mathew Burton, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Bryan Dickson, MD, Associate Professor
  • Ernesto Fernandez, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Ellen K. Grishman, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Melissa Ham, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Michele Hutchison, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
  • Roy Kim, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
  • Ximena Lopez, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Sudha Mootha, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Jon Oden, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Ryan Stewart, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Kathryn Sumpter, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Grace Tannin, MD, Associate Professor

Gastroenterology

• Andrew Feranchak, MD, Associate Professor, Division Director
  
  • Michele Alkalay, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Amal A. Aqul, MD, Assistant Professor
  • John Andersen, MD, Professor, Vice Chair of Clinical Operations
  • Bradley Barth, MD, MPH, Associate Professor
  • Nandini Channabasappa, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Edaire Cheng, MD, Instructor
  • Amal Dutta, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
  • Aakash Goyal, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Koorosh Kooros, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Qin Li, MD, PhD, Instructor
  • Ashish Patel, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Charina Ramirez, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Norberto Rodriguez-Baez, MD, Associate Professor
  • Michael Russo, MD, Associate Professor
  • Rinarani Sanghavi, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Meghana Sathe, MD, Assistant Professor
  • M. Gaith S. Semrin, MD, Assistant Professor

General Pediatrics

• Glenn Flores, MD, Professor, Division Director
  Judith and Charles Ginsburg Chair in Pediatrics
  • Matthew Cox, MD, Associate Professor
  • Natalie DuMont, MD, Assistant Instructor
  • Vanthaya Gan, MD, Professor
  • Lauren Gore, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Shelby Joseph, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Nancy Kelly, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Director, Residents’ Continuity Clinic
  • Karen Y. Latour, MD, Assistant Professor
  • May Lau, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Michael Lee. MD, Associate Professor
  • Angela Mihalic, MD, Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Student Affairs
  • Vineeta Mittal, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Anu Partap, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor
  • Jacquelyn Powers, MD, Assistant Instructor
  • Erin Scheideman, MD, Instructor
  • Rashmi Shetgiri, MD, MSHS, Assistant Professor
  • Joel Steinberg, MD, Professor
  • David Sutcliffe, MD, Assistant Instructor
  • Christy Turer, MD, Instructor, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
  • Jennifer Walsh, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine

Genetics/Metabolism

• Perrin White, MD, Professor, Interim Division Director
  • Mary Esther Carlin, MD, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Ralph DeBerardinis, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth & Development
  • Lewis J. Waber, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth & Development

Hematology-Oncology

• Stephen X. Skapek, MD, Professor, Division Director
  Children's Cancer Fund Distinguished Professorship in Pediatric Oncology Research
  
  • James Amatruda, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology, and Internal Medicine
    Horchow Family Scholar in Pediatrics 2005-2009
  • Kristine Appel, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Victor M. Aquino, MD, Associate Professor
  • Robert O. Bash, MD, Associate Professor
  • Daniel C. Bowers, MD, Associate Professor
  • George R. Buchanan, MD, Professor
    Barrett Family Center for Pediatric Oncology
    Children's Cancer Fund Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Oncology and Hematology
  • Mary Ellen Cavalier, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Alexander Gozman, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Paul Harker-Murray, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
  • Janna M. Journeycake, MD, Associate Professor
  • Laura Klesse, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
  • Andrew Koh, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Microbiology, and Simmons Cancer Center
  • Patrick J. Leavey, MD, Associate Professor
  • Jeffrey Magee, MD, PhD, Assistant instructor
  • Timothy McCavit, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Zora R. Rogers, MD, Professor
  • Tiffany Simms-Waldrip, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Tamra Slone, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Martha Stegner, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Tanya C. Watt, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Jonathan Wickiser, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Naomi J. Winick, MD, Professor
    Lowe Foundation Professorship in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
  • Yanbin Zheng, PhD, Assistant Professor

Hospitalist Medicine

• Vijay Kalidindi, MD, Associate Professor, Program Director
  • Ayesha Ahmad, MD, Instructor
  • Kathryn E. Ban, MD, Instructor
  • Christina Bourland, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Clifford Chen, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Megan Durham, MD, Instructor
  • Melissa Cossey, MD, Instructor
  • Allison Hsu, MD, Instructor
  • Jennifer Johnston, MD, Instructor
  • Kathryn King, MD, Instructor
  • Benjamin Lee, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Judy C. Lee, MD, Instructor
  • Eron Linver, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Adrienne McMillan, MD, Instructor
  • Amit Mehta, MD, Instructor
  • Kimberly Mulson, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Roxana Narat, MD, Instructor
  • Phuong Nguyen, MD, Instructor
  • Reina Patel, DO, Assistant Professor
  • Jennifer Rammage, MD, Instructor
  • Catherine Robben, MD, Instructor
  • Luis Seguias, MD Assistant Professor
  • Leticia Shanley, MD, Instructor
  • Karthik Srinivasan, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Bharath Thankavel, MD, Instructor
  • Kathleen Vandiver, MD, Instructor

Infectious Disease

• Jeffrey S. Kahn, MD, PhD, Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology, Division Director
  Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Chair in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
  
  • Theresa Barton, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Carla Garcia, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Michelle Gill, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
  • Ruth Levitz, PhD, Instructor
  • George H. McCracken, Jr., MD, Professor
    GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Professorship of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
  • Jeffrey McKinney, MD. Associate Professor
    Harry W. Bass Jr. Professorship in Pediatric Education
  • John Nelson, MD, Professor Emeritus
  • Jane D. Siegel, MD, Professor

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

• Rashmin Savani, MBChB, Professor, Division Director
  William Buchanan Chair in Pediatrics
  
  • Mahmood Alasmi, MD, MS, Associate Professor
  • Timothy Brannon, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Luc Brion, MD, Professor
  • Lina Chalak, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Arlene Davis, MD, Assistant Professor
  • William D. Engle, MD, Professor
  • Becky Ennis, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Natalie W. Frost, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Roy Heyne, MD, Professor
  • Gregory L. Jackson, MD, MBA, Professor
  • Mambarambath Jaleel, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Venkatakrishna Kakkilaya, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Sunjun Kang, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Vishal S. Kapadia, MD, Assistant Professor
  • J. Wells Logan, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Laura C. McClendon, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Julie Mirpuri-Hathiramani, MD, Instructor
  • James E. Moore, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
  • Emily Osier, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Susan Raff, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Charles R. Rosenfeld, MD, Professor, Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Pain Management, and Ob/Gyn
    George L. MacGregor Professorship in Pediatrics
  • Pablo J. Sanchez, MD, Professor
  • Joseph Schneider, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Dorothy M. Sendelbach, MD, Associate Professor
  • Julide Sisman, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Muraleedhara Sivarajan, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Elizbeth K. Stehel, MD, Associate Professor
  • Audra Stewart, DO, MPH, Assistant Professor
  • Myra Wyckoff, MD, Associate Professor

Nephrology

• Michel Baum, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Division Director
  Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Chair in Pediatric Research
  
  • Jyothsna Gattineni, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Raymond Quigley, MD, Professor
  • Mouin Seikaly, MD, Professor
  • Katherine Twombley, MD, Assistant Professor

Neurology

• Susan Iannaccone, MD, Professor of Neurology, Division Director
  Jimmy Elizabeth Westcott Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Neurology
  • Susan Arnold, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
  • Mike Dowling, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
  • Patricia Evans, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
  • Sailaja Golla, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
  • Muna Q. Khan, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
  • Saadat Khan, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
  • Fares Kokash, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
  • Juan Pascual, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology
  • Rana Said, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
  • Deepa Sirsi, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology
  • William Zinser, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology

Pulmonary and Vascular Biology

• Philip Shaul, MD, Professor, Division Director and Vice Chair of Research
  Associates First Capital Corporation Distinguished Chair in Pediatrics
• Carolyn Cannon, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
• Michelle Gill, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
• Ruth Levitz, PhD, Instructor
• Chieko Mineo, PhD, Assistant Professor
• Julio Pérez Fontán, MD, Professor
• Rashmin Savani, MBChB, Professor
• Margaret Schwarz, MD, Associate Professor
• Michihisa Umetani, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology

Respiratory Medicine

• Carolyn Cannon, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Interim Division Director and Director, Cystic Fibrosis Clinic
  • Steven Copenhaver, MD, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Andrew Gelfand, MD, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Tanya Martinez Fernandez, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Syed Kamal Naqvi, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Julio Pérez Fontán, MD, Professor
  • Yadira Rivera-Sanchez, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Peter Schochet, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Preeti Sharma, MD, Assistant Professor

Rheumatology

• Marilynn G. Punaro, MD, Professor, Division Director
  • Alisa Gotte, MD, Assistant Professor
  • Lorien Nassi, MD, Instructor
  • Katie G. Stewart, MD, Instructor
  • Tracey Wright, MD, Assistant Professor

Austin/Seton

• Valli R. Annamalai, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
• Lynn R. Campbell, MD, Assistant Professor
• Nalinda Charnsangavej, MD, Assistant Professor
• Eric Choy, MD, Assistant Instructor
• Lisa M. Clewner, MD, Assistant Professor
• K. Lindley Dodson, MD, Assistant Professor
• Marilyn Doyle, MD, Assistant Professor
• George Edwards, MD, Assistant Professor
• Kimberly C. Avila Edwards, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
• Franchesca C. Estrada, MD, Assistant Professor
• Marion M. Forbes, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
• Michelle C. Gallas, DO, Assistant Professor
• Tara Greendyk, MD, Assistant Professor
• Cathleen Havemann, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
• Richard M. Holt, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
• Jennifer I.L. Hughes, MD, Assistant Professor
• Meena Iyer, MD, Assistant Professor
• Anthony C. Kimbrough, MD, Assistant Professor
• John C. Luk, MD, Assistant Professor
• George R. Miner, IV, MD, Assistant Professor
• Celia B. Neavel, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
• Sarah F. Pickel, MD, Assistant Professor
• Stephen J. Pont, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor
• Daniel Richards, MD, Assistant Professor
• Ashley Sens, MD, Assistant Professor
• Mark W. Shen, MD, Assistant Professor
• Lana Stimac, MD, Assistant Instructor
• Lynn Thoreson, DO, Assistant Professor
• Shaida Z. vom Eigen, MD, Assistant Professor
• Toni A. Wakefield, MD, Assistant Professor
• Donald Williams, MD, Assistant Professor