Lauren Kane, M.D., has joined Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston as a new cardiovascular surgeon. Dr. Kane, who will practice at Texas Children’s Heart Center, also is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Kane's clinical and research interests include the full spectrum of congenital heart surgery, with a particular interest in neonatal palliation and outcomes-based research.

She previously served as assistant professor of congenital heart surgery at UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. She earned her bachelor’s degree from UT Arlington, and her medical degree from UT Medical School at Houston. Dr. Kane completed her surgical residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center, a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Emory University and a fellowship in congenital heart surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

James E. Moore. M.D., Ph.D., has been named Chief of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center and chief of the Division of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Moore graduated from Syracuse University and earned a Ph.D. in Neurophysiology from Emory University. He completed his medical training at Emory, followed by a Pediatrics residency at UT Southwestern and a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship at Boston Children's. Following his training he returned to Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta as Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and Director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship.

He was recruited to UT Southwestern in 2011 as Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Director of the NICU at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. During his four-year tenure in Dallas he helped lead the expansion of the NICU, developed a groundbreaking regional neonatal telemedicine service, and contributed to the growth of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation program for young patients with cardiac and cardiopulmonary diseases. Dr. Moore's clinical interests include neonatal ECMO and transfusion medicine and his clinical research interests include hypoxia related neurologic injury of the premature infant and neuroprotective strategies in this same population.

Bradford S. Patt, M.D., is serving as the 2015 President of the Harris County Medical Society and the Houston Academy of Medicine, the scientific and charitable organization for HCMS physicians. The HCMS is the largest county medical society in the nation, with more than 11,000 physician and medical student members. Dr. Patt, a board-certified otolaryngologist and facial plastic surgeon, was installed as the 114th president of the HCMS in January. Dr. Patt has been in private practice at the Houston, Ear, Nose, Throat and Allergy Clinic since 1993 and at the Houston Center for Facial Plastic Surgery since 1996. Dr. Patt graduated magna cum laude from Louisiana State University. He received his medical degree from the Louisiana State University Medical School. He then entered a General Surgery internship, followed by a Residency Program in Otolaryngology at UT Southwestern.

Dr. Patt extended his medical training with a Fellowship in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He is board-certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology, the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.