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Vanthaya Gan, MD
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
vanthaya.gan@utsouthwestern.edu
To make an appointment, call 214-730-KIDS (5437).
Biography
Vanthaya N. Gan, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center of Dallas (UTSW). Since completing her residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in Ambulatory Pediatrics training at UTSW, she has distinguished herself in teaching, service and research at UTSW and beyond. The Director of the Medical Student Teaching Clinic at Children’s Medical Center (CMC) since 1984, the Associate Director of Pediatric Clerkships at UTSW since 1988, and the attending faculty of the CMC Residency Continuity Clinic for almost 20 years, Dr. Gan has been repeatedly recognized for her excellence in teaching. Dr. Gan extends her dedication to medicine through her involvement in research. She is involved in such diverse projects as the Dallas school-based Asthma Screening Project, the study of MRSA carrier stage in medical students, and the psychiatric symptomology in caregivers of children with asthma. Her special areas of interest include medical education, dermatology, asthma, and infectious disease.
Education
| Fellowship | UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (1979) |
| Fellowship | Children's Medical Center - GME, Pediatrics (1978) |
| Residency | Children's Medical Center - GME, Pediatrics (1977) |
| Internship | Children's Medical Center - GME, Pediatrics (1975) |
| Internship | Ramathibodi Hospital (1974) |
| Medical School | Ramathibodi Hospital (1973) |
Publications
Gan VN, Grucella R , Respiratory Care Clinics of North America. WB Saunders Comp. , March 2000; (6:1)
Brown ES, Gan V, Jeffress J, Mullen-Gingrich K, Khan DA, Wood BL, Miller BD, Gruchalla B, and John Rush , Pediatrics , 2006; (118):e1715-e1720
Stout JW, Visness CM, Enright P, Lamm C, Shapiro G, Gan V, Adams K, Mitchell HE , Accepted for publication: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine , 2006;
Macias CG, Felner EI, and Gan V , Allergy & Immunology , 2003; (16):121-128
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Honors/Awards
xcellence in Education Clinical Teaching Award (2007)
Excellence in Education Clinical Teaching Award (2006)
Excellence in Education Clinical Teaching Award (2005)
Awarded by Children’s Medical Center Dallas (2001)
Awarded by Children’s Medical Center Dallas (1995)