November 17, 2022

Reeba Mathew, MBBS, FCCP

“The time is always right to do what is right.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Reeba Mathew was awarded her medical degree from Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences, Karnataka, India.  She completed her internship at the University of Arkansas for…


November 17, 2022

Simbo M. Chiadika, MD

Dr. Simbo Chiadika is an associate professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) McGovern Medical School. She received her medical degree and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia University…


November 17, 2022

Anne H. Dougherty, MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA

Dr. Dougherty serves as the ten Broeke Family Foundation Professor of Medicine at the McGovern Medical School and Vice President for Human Research Protection Programs at UTHealth.  She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina with the…


November 17, 2022

Shervin Assassi, MD, MS

Dr. Assassi is the Director of the Division of Rheumatology. After graduating from Albert Ludwig Medical School in Freiburg, Germany, he completed his internal medicine and rheumatology post-graduate training at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (UTHealth…


November 17, 2022

Maureen D. Mayes, MD, MPH

Dr. Mayes completed her Rheumatology Fellowship and Internal Medicine training at the Cleveland Clinic following her graduation from Eastern Virginia Medical School. She received a Master in Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public…


November 17, 2022

Filemon K. Tan, MD, PhD

Dr. Tan completed his residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and served as Chief Medical Resident in the Department of Internal Medicine before completing the rheumatology fellowship program at UTHealth. He joined the faculty…


November 17, 2022

Binh Nguyen, MD

Dr. Nguyen obtained his medical degree from University of Tennessee College of Medicine and was an intern/resident at the UT Medical Branch at Galveston. Dr. Nguyen received his Rheumatology Fellowship training at the University of Texas Health Science Center at…


November 17, 2022

Kevin W. Finkel, MD, FACP, FASN, FCCM

Dr. Finkel received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth.  After completing a Residency and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, he completed his…



November 17, 2022

Faith Atai, MD

Dr. Faith Atai completed her formal medical education at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital in 1991. She completed a medical internship at St. Luke’s Hospital Anua in Uyo, Nigeria. Dr. Atai completed her Family Medicine residency at the…


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