Team

Leadership

Jon Meliones, MD, MS, FCCM

Executive Co-Director, Children's Heart Institute,
Section Chief, Pediatric Cardiac ICU,
Professor

Ken Brady, MD

Director for Post-Operative Services for the UTHealth Houston Children's Heart Institute,
Executive Director for Translational Research for the UTHealth Houston Children's Heart Institute,
Professor

LaTasha Lewis, MD

Associate Medical Director of the HCICU,
Associate Professor

Faculty

Dheepa Ardhanari, MD

Assistant Professor

Sonia Labarinas, MD

Associate Director of Extracorporeal Services,
Assistant Professor

Twiza Mambwe, MD

Assistant Professor

David McMann, MD, MEd

Director of Physician Quality & Performance Improvement for HCICU,
Assistant Professor

Kalpana Norbisrath, MD

Assistant Professor

Shivani Tripathi, MD

Director of HCICU Palliative Care & Quality of Life,
Associate Professor

Peymaun "Jarod" Vakhshoorzadeh, MD

Assistant Professor