Our Fellows

2021 – 2024

Jefferson Bedell, MD

Jefferson Bedell, MD

Pediatric Residency:  UT Health- McGovern Medical School – Houston, TX
Research Project: Examination of Resource Utilization on Moderate to Severe Cerebral Injuries in the Pediatric Population
Research Mentor: Chinyere O’Connor, MD

Dillon Burks,MD

Dillon Burks, MD

Pediatric Residency: UT Health- McGovern Medical School – Houston, TX
Research Project: Viability of Transcutaneous CO2 Monitoring
Research Mentor: Alvaro Coronado Munoz, MD

Andrea Heifner, MD

Andrea Heifner, MD

Pediatric Residency: Louisiana State University – New Orleans, LA
Research Project: Protocolized initiation of clonidine to prevent dexmedetomidine withdrawal: A prospective cohort study
Research Mentor: Thao Nguyen, DO

2022 – 2025

Ankit Agarwal, MD

Pediatric Residency: Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital, University of Florida – Pensacola, FL
Research Project: Morphological changes of astrocytes in a model of neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage
Research Mentor: Brandon A. Miller, MD

Ahmed Mafraj

Ahmed Mafraj, MD

Pediatric Residency: Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center – Toledo, OH
Research Project: Biomarkers of sepsis-induced acute kidney injury
Research Mentor: Bibek Bista, MBBS

Nikita Tripathi,MD

Nikita Tripathi, MD

Pediatric Residency: Monmouth Medical Center – Long Branch, NJ
Research Project: Aerosolized endotracheal lidocaine to avoid intracranial pressure spikes in patients with severe traumatic brain injury
Research Mentor: Thao Nguyen, DO

Mary Vetter, MD

Pediatric Residency: Tulane-Ochsner – New Orleans, LA
Research Project: Comparing TCOM readings in bronchiolitis patients on HFNC vs NIPPV
Research Mentor: Alvaro Coronado Munoz, MD

2023 – 2026

Sapna Dharma, MD

Pediatric Residency: Maimonides Medical Center/Infants and Children’s Hospital of Brooklyn Program  – Brooklyn, NY
Research Project: TBD
Research Mentor: TBD

Aymen Mirza, MD

Pediatric Residency: Louisiana State University/ LSU Health Sciences Center- Shreveport, LA
Research Project: TBD
Research Mentor: TBD

Carlos Vargas, MD

Pediatric Residency: Phoenix Children’s Hospital – Phoenix, AZ
Research Project: TBD
Research Mentor: TBD

Chelsea Vaughn, MD

Pediatric Residency: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center- New Orleans, LA
Research Project:TBD
Research Mentor:TBD

Alumni

Amanda McCarthy, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship – Houston, TX

Janie Pierce, DO
Assistant Professor at UT Health-McGovern Medical School Pediatrics Critical Care Medicine- Houston, TX

Vamshi Revuri, MD
Pediatric Intensivist at USA Children’s & Women’s Hospital  – Mobile, AL

Jonathan Runyon, MD
Pediatric Intensivist at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital- Hollywood, FL

Ernesto Fernandez, MD
Pediatric Intensivist at Driscoll Children’s Hospital – Corpus Christi, TX

 

Juan Jose Palacios Bucheli, MD
Pediatric Intensivist at Edinburg Children’s Hospital – Edinburg, TX

Viswamitra Ragoonanan, MD
Pediatric Intensivist at Denver Health Center and Hospital – Denver, CO

Satish Shah, MD
Pediatric Intensivist at Stormont Vail Health – Topeka, KS

Bassam Albassam, MD
Pediatric Intensivist at King Fahd Hospital- Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

John Leotaud, MD
Pediatric Intensivist at Driscoll Children’s Hospital – Corpus Christi, TX

Morgan Doughty, MD
Pediatric Cardiac Intensivist at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital- Tampa, FL

Rachel Maurice, MD
Pediatric Intensivist at Valleywise Hospital – Phoenix, AZ

Thao Nguyen, DO
Assistant Professor at UT Health-McGovern Medical School Pediatrics Critical Care Medicine- Houston, TX

Haitham Al Wahab, MD
Assistant Professor at UT Health-McGovern Medical School Pediatrics Critical Care Medicine- Houston, TX

Peter Scully, MD
Assistant Professor at UT Health-McGovern Medical School Pediatrics Critical Care Medicine- Houston, TX

Bibek Bista, MD

Bibek Bista, MBBS
Assistant Professor at UT Health-McGovern Medical School Pediatrics Critical Care Medicine- Houston, TX

David McMann, MD, MEd

David McMann, MD
Assistant Professor at UT Health-McGovern Medical School Heart Center ICU- Houston, TX

Tin Toan Nguyen, MD
Assistant Professor at UCLA Health Science Center in the Pediatrics Critical Care- Los Angeles, CA