DoP Honors, May 2025
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- Hope Northrup, MD, Professor and Director, Medical Genetics
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- Amir Khan, MD, Professor and Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Hope Northrup, MD, and Amir Khan, MD, were 2 of 6 faculty inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Society at a ceremony on March 17.
L-R: Critical Care Medicine Division Director Konstantinos Boukas, MD; Assistant Professor Thao Nguyen, DO, FAAP; Memorial Hermann CEO Marissa Kiefer, MHSA; Assistant Professor Haitham Al-Wahab, MD, FAAP.
Thao L. Nguyen, DO, FAAP, and Haitham Al-Wahab, MD, FAAP, were both nominated for Physician of the Year at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital.
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- Angie Curtis, MD, CAQSM, Assistant Professor, Community & General Pediatrics
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- Charles Boren, MD, CAQSM, Assistant Professor, Community & General Pediatrics
Angie Curtis, MD, CAQSM, and Charles Boren, DO, CAQSM, drafted and presented a proposal for a pediatric sports medicine elective for 4th-year medical students, which has been approved by the curriculum committee.
Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine Division
Ricardo Mosquera, MD, MS, and the Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine Division submitted an abstract to the American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference that was selected for the main ATS newsletter and moved to the “best of pediatrics” section at the conference, a first for the Division.
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- Dominique “Nikki” Dagdag, MD, PGY-2 Resident, General Pediatrics
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- Ebony Beaudoin, MD, Associate Professor, Community & General Pediatrics
Dominique “Nikki” Dagdag, MD, PGY-2 resident, has earned a 2025 Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Resident Grant from the AAP and will work with mentor Ebony Beaudoin, MD, to curate educational sessions.
Mona Eissa, MD, MPH, PhD, FAAP, FSAHM, Professor and Director, Adolescent Medicine
Mona Eissa, MD, MPH, PhD, FAAP, FSAHM, selected and elected for the AAP Section on Obesity (SOOb) Executive Committee.
Chinyere O’Connor, MD, Assistant Professor, Critical Care Medicine
Chinyere O’Connor, MD, received a 2025 Shine Academy small grant, application titled, “From Dilemma to Development: Assessing Professional Identity Formation and Resilience in Pediatric Residents”.
Stuart Fraser, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neurology
The Pediatric Stroke Program, led by Stuart Fraser, MD, will receive funding from the International Alliance for Pediatric Stroke this year to ensure all kids who participate can receive non-invasive brain stimulation.
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- L-R: Co-author Deborah Salvo, PhD, shares the book with Varela.
Andrea Ramirez Varela, MD, PhD, MPH, was a featured leader profiled in the newly published “Foundations of Physical Activity and Public Health, 3rd Edition.”
Additionally, Varela‘s commentary “The Physical Activity Policy to Practice Disconnect,” published in the 2023 volume of the Journal of Physical Activity & Health (JPAH), was one of three commentaries shortlisted for the JPAH 2024 Article of the Year Award for Best Commentary. This is the first year that JPAH has presented such recognitions for best papers across a variety of categories.