Department Chair
Mary E. Aitken, MD, MPH, FAAP
- Professor and Chair
- Dan L Duncan Distinguished University Chair in Pediatrics
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Simi Abraham, MD
- Fellowship Director, Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship
- Assistant Professor, Division of Child Safety and Integrated Care
Dilachew A. Adebo, MD, FAAP, FACC, FSCMR, FSCCT
- Professor, Pediatric Cardiology and Radiology
- Director, Pediatric Cardiac CT and Pediatric Cardiac MRI
- Director, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship Program
- Co-Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Heart Institute
Mary E. Aitken, MD, MPH, FAAP
- Professor and Chair
- Dan L Duncan Distinguished University Chair in Pediatrics
Samhar I. Al-Akash, MD
- Professor
- Medical Director, Pediatric Renal Transplant
- Division Director, Pediatric Nephrology & Hypertension
Joseph L. Alcorn, Jr., PhD
- Associate Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Pediatric Research Center
Chiamaka U. Aneji, MD, MPH, FAAP
- Associate Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Member, McGovern Medical School "Academy of Master Educators"
Vidhya Annavajjhala, MD
- Associate Professor, Pediatric Cardiology
- Director, Echocardiography Laboratory Quality Improvement
- Interim Director, Fetal Heart Program
Gabriel Anzueto, MD
- Assistant Professor, Children’s Learning Institute
- Medical Director, Dan L Duncan Children’s Neurodevelopmental Clinic
Gnana Dheepa Ardhanari, MD
- Assistant Professor, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Michael A. Assel, PhD
- Professor, Children's Learning Institute
- Neuropsychologist, Dan L Duncan Children's Neurodevelopmental Clinic
Rebecca M. Beyda, MD, MS
- Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Adolescent Medicine
- Director, Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program, Division of Adolescent Medicine
- Director, MD/MPH Dual Degree Program, Division of Adolescent Medicine
Gurur Biliciler-Denktas, MD, FACC, FASE
- Professor, Pediatric Cardiology
- Director, Pediatric Advanced Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging / Echocardiography Laboratory
- Program Director, Pediatric Advanced Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging
- Co-Chief, CHI Pediatric Cardiology Division
- Past Chair, UT System Faculty Advisory Council
Konstantinos Boukas, MD
- Associate Professor
- Division Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Medical Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Fellowship Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Ken Brady, MD
- Director for Post-Operative Services , Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
- Executive Director for Translational Research, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
- Professor, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Monica A. Bray, MD, FAAP, FACR, RhMSUS
- Assistant Professor
- Medical Director, Pediatric Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Clinic
Michael L. Chang, MD
- Associate Professor
- Director, Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship for McGovern Medical School and Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital
John C. Chapman, MD
- Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Medical Director, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program
April Crawford, PhD
- Professor
- Meg and Dick Weekley Distinguished Chair in Childhood Reading and Learning
- Michael Matthew Knight Memorial Professor in Pediatrics
- Co-Director, Children's Learning Institute
- Director, State Initiatives
Paul H. Dahm, MD, MS, FAAP
- Associate Professor, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
- Medical Director, Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team
Allison J. Davidson, DO
- Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Assistant Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program
Mona A. Eissa, MD, MPH, PhD
- Professor
- Division Director, Division of Adolescent Medicine
- Assistant Director, Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program
Kimberly Ellison, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Children's Learning Institute
- Clinical Psychologist, Dan L Duncan Children's Neurodevelopmental Clinic
Misti G. Ellsworth, DO
- Associate Professor
- Director, Pediatric Infection Prevention for Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital
Miguel A. Escobar, MD
- Professor
- Professor, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Medical Director, Gulf States Hemophilia and Thrombophilia
Linda Ewing-Cobbs, PhD
- Professor
- Harriet and Joe Foster Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience
- Neuropsychologist, Dan L Duncan Children's Neurodevelopmental Clinic
Cathy L. Guttentag, PhD
- Associate Professor, Children's Learning Institute
- Psychologist, Dan L Duncan Children’s Neurodevelopmental Clinic
Syed S. Hashmi, MD, MPH, PhD
- Professor, Pediatric Research Center
- Director, Bioinformatics Core, Pediatrics Research Center
Jacqueline T. Hecht, PhD
- Professor and Division Director, Pediatric Research Center
- Vice Chair, Research
- Leah L. Lewis Distinguished Chair
Gloria P. Heresi, MD
- Professor
- Interim Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
- Co-Director, Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship Program
- Head, Donald M Gross Pediatric Research Group
Elizabeth Hillman, MD, MEd
- Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program
Lindsay F. Holzapfel, MD, MS
- Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, and the Institute for Clinical Research and Learning Health Care
Mark D. Hormann, MD
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics
- Vice Dean for Educational Programs, Office of Educational Programs
Cindy K. Jon, MD, MPH
- Professor
- Director, Pulmonary Fellowship Program
- Co-Director, Pediatric Sleep Clinic
Ankur A. Kamdar, MD
- Associate Professor
- Division Chief, Pediatric Rheumatology
- Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Amir M. Khan, MD
- David R. Park Professor in Pediatric Medicine
- Richard Warren Mithoff Professor in Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine
- AVP, Community Programs, Neonatology, UT Physicians
- Chief, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Muhammad S. Khan, MD, FAAP, FACC, FSCAI
- Associate Professor, Pediatric Cardiology
- Director, Clinical Development and Outreach
Mary Kay Koenig, MD
- Professor, Division of Child and Adolescent Neurology
- Director, Center for the Treatment of Pediatric Neurodegenerative Disease
- Endowed Chair of Mitochondrial Medicine
- Associate Vice-Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics
Melissa Kwan, MD
- Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hospital Medicine
- Director, Community Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Sonia Labarinas, MD
- Associate Director of Extracorporeal Services, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
- Assistant Professor, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Sheela L. Lahoti, MD
- Professor, Child Safety and Integrated Care
- Assistant Dean, Admissions and Student Affairs
LaTasha Lewis, MD
- Associate Medical Director, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
- Associate Professor, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Suzanne Lopez, MD, FAAP
- Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Vice Chair of Education, Department of Pediatrics
- Director, Neonatal Services at UT Fetal Center
- Associate Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program
Rupa Mahadevan, MD
- Assistant Professor, Community and General Pediatrics
- Culinary Medicine Instructor, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Terri Major-Kincade, MD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Director, Pediatric Palliative Care Medicine
Kiran K. Mallula, MD, MS
- Associate Professor, Pediatric Cardiology
- Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
Pedro Mancias, MD
- Professor Emeritus
- Former Assistant Dean, Diversity and Inclusion
- Former Assistant Dean, Student Affairs and Admissions
- Distinguished Teaching Professor
Katrina E. McBeth, MD
- Assistant Professor
- Medical Director, Pediatric Pulmonary clinic at Pedi & Adol Health Ctr-CE Odom
Sandra L. McKay, MD, FAAP
- Director, Community and General Pediatrics
- Associate Professor, Community and General Pediatrics
- Vice Chair of Advocacy, Department of Pediatrics
- Director, Population Health, Department of Pediatrics
David McMann, MD, MEd
- Director of Physician Quality & Performance Improvement, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
- Assistant Professor, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Jon Meliones, MD, MS, FCCM
- Executive Co-Director, Children’s Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
- Section Chief, Children’s Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
- Professor, Children’s Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Neethu M. Menon, MD
- Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology, Gulf States Hemophilia and Thrombophilia
Rachel K. Miller, PhD
- Associate Professor, Pediatric Research Center
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Co-Director, Program in Genetics and Epigenetics, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- Co-Chair, Women Faculty Forum, McGovern Medical School, UT Health Houston
Ricardo A. Mosquera, MD, MPH
- Professor
- Division Director, Pediatric Pulmonary I Allergy / Immunology I Sleep
Kalpana Norbisrath, MD
- Assistant Professor, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Mehul D. Patel, MD, FAAP
- Associate Professor, Pediatric Cardiology
- Director, Single Ventricle/High-Risk Home Monitoring Program
Syamasundar Rao Patnana, MD,DAH, FAAP, FACC, FSCAI
- Professor
- Emeritus Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
- Staff Physician
Norma Perez, DO
- Associate Professor
- Director, Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
- Clinical Director, Pediatric HIV
Adriana Carolina Prada-Ruiz, MD
- Associate Professor, Pediatric Cardiology
- Medical Co-Director, Pediatric Heart Transplant and Heart Failure Program
- Medical Director, Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Program
Mary R. Prasad, PhD
- Associate Professor, Children's Learning Institute
- Neuropsychologist, Dan L Duncan Children's Neurodevelopmental Clinic
Maria del Mar Romero López, MD, MS, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, and the Institute for Clinical Research and Learning Health Care
Michelle T. Ruda, MD
- Division Director, Division of Child Safety and Integrated Care
- Associate Fellowship Director, Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship
- Associate Professor, Division of Child Safety and Integrated Care
Matthew A. Rysavy, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, and the Institute for Clinical Research and Learning Health Care
- Director, Neonatal Research
- Director, Learning Healthcare
Joshua Samuels, MD, MPH
- Professor
- Director, Nephrology Fellowship Program
- Director, Hypertension Program
Lakshmi Srivaths, MD
- Professor, Division of Hematology
- Director, Pediatric Thrombosis Clinic
- Co-Director, Pediatric Brain and Spine Clinic
Rita D. Swinford, MD
- Professor
- Director, Children's Dialysis Unit, Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital
Kristina K. Tebo, MD
- Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hospital Medicine
- Assistant Vice President, Global Health Initiatives
Nivedita Thakur, MD
- Associate Professor, Child and Adolescent Neurology
- Co-Director, Pediatric Movement Disorders Clinic
- Co-Director, Center for the Treatment of Pediatric Neurodegenerative Disease
Shivani Tripathi, MD
- Director of HCICU Palliative Care & Quality of Life, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
- Associate Professor, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Sophia P. Tsakiri, MD, CMQ
- Associate Professor, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Medical Director, Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital, NICU
Jon E. Tyson, MD, MPH
- Professor
- Professor, Obstetrics
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Management, Policy and Community Health
- Michelle Bain Distinguished Professor, Medicine and Public Health
- Vice Dean, Clinical Research and Healthcare Quality
- Co-Director, Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
Santosh C. Uppu, MD
- Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
- Co-Director, UTHealth Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
- Director, Complex Congenital Cardiac Care Center (C4), Houston Congenital Heart Institute
Peymaun “Jarrod” Vakhshoorzadeh, MD
- Assistant Professor, Children's Heart Institute/Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Gretchen Von Allmen, MD
- Professor
- Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Neurology
- Chief, Pediatric Epilepsy
- Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Program
- Co-Director, West Syndrome Center of Excellence
Elizabeth W. Wang-Giuffre, DO
- Director, CHI Exercise Laboratory
- Staff Physician, Pediatric Cardiology
David L. Weisoly, DO
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Director of Neonatal Advocacy and Government Affairs
Tricia A. Zucker, PhD
- Professor
- Albert and Margaret Alkek Distinguished Chair in Early Childhood Development
- Harriet and Joe Foster Distinguished Professor
- Co-Director, Children's Learning Institute