Welcome to the Department of Anesthesiology – New Team Members for October, November and December 2022

We would like to welcome the below new faculty and staff members to the department.

Kelly West, MD

Dr. West joined the department on October 1^st as an Assistant Professor to support our critical care medicine group. She completed her residency at Baylor College of Medicine and her critical care medicine fellowship at the McGovern Medical School at UT Health in Houston, TX.

 

 

 

Amad Qadeer, MD

Dr. Qadeer joined the department on October 1^st as an Assistant Professor to support our general anesthesia and pain pain management groups. He completed his residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX and his pain medicine fellowship at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, VT.

 

 

 

Romin Jahromi, MD

Dr. Jahromi joined the department on October 1^st as an Assistant Professor to support our general anesthesia group. He completed his residency at the McGovern Medical School at UT Health in Houston, TX.

 

 

 

 

Sherline David, MD

Dr. David joined the department on October 10^th as an Assistant Professor to support our pediatric anesthesia group. She completed her residency at Baylor Scott and White Hospital in Temple, TX and her pediatric anesthesia fellowship at the McGovern Medical School at UT Health in Houston, TX.

 

 

 

Nicolette Mardik

Nicolette joined the department on October 10^th as a Research Assistant to support Dr. Jennifer Bailey-Lundberg’s lab group.

 

 

 

 

Jamal Hasson, MD

Dr. Hasoon joined the department on October 17^th as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Pain Fellowship Program to support our pain medicine group. He completed his residency at Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX and his pain management fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.

 

 

 

Estrella Escobar

Estrella joined the department on October 24^th as an Research Assistant to support Dr. Wei Cao’s lab group.

 

 

 

 

Joey Hung, DO

Dr. Hung joined the department on November 1^st as an Assistant Professor to support our pain medicine group. He completed his residency at the McGovern Medical School at UT Health and his pain medicine fellowship at the University if Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, IA.

 

 

 

 

Katherine Figarella, PhD

Dr. Figarella joined the department on November 1^st as an Instructor to support our research group in the Eltzschig lab.

 

 

 

 

Greesha Pednekar, MD

Dr. Pednekar joined the department on November 14^th as an Assistant Professor to support our pediatric anesthesia group. She completed her residency at the McGovern Medical School at UT Health and her pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, AR.

 

 

 

Krystal DeOchoa

Krystal joined the department on November 14^th as an Administrative Assistant to support our clinical faculty.

 

 

 

 

Katherine Becker, MD

Dr. Becker joined the department on November 16^th as an Assistant Professor to support our general anesthesia group. She completed her residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital at the University of Miami in Miami, FL, and her regional anesthesia fellowship at the McGovern Medical School at UT Health in Houston, TX.

 

 

 

Amy Kelley, CAA

Amy joined the department on November 28^th as an Anesthesiology Assistant to support the Memorial Hermann Hospital.

 

 

 

 

Nancy Bonilla

Nancy joined the department on December 19^th as an Administrative Assistant to support our clinical faculty.

 

 

 

 

Rebecca Scholl, MD

Dr. Becker joined the department on December 20^th as an Assistant Professor to support our pediatric cardiovascular anesthesia group. She completed her residency at Rutgers Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ, her pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Duke University in Durham, NC, and her  pediatric cardiac anesthesia fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, MA.

 

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