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of Instruction Department of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Faculty in the Department of Pediatrics emphasize teaching designed to maximize the health of each pediatric patient, with special focus on optimization of growth and development. Students are expected to develop their own approach to assist patients in achieving these goals. Children, from premature infants through adolescents, are followed in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Each patient encounter is viewed as an opportunity for the student to improve his or her abilities to work with pediatric patients and their families.
The department is responsible for a formal course in human genetics. In addition, the faculty includes subspecialists in adolescent medicine, cardiology, critical care medicine, developmental pediatrics, neonatal-perinatal medicine, genetics and metabolism, endocrinology, infectious diseases, hematology and oncology, nephrology, immunology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, and sports medicine. While there are numerous elective opportunities available in two- or four-week units in the various subspecialty clinical and laboratory aspects of pediatrics and its subspecialties, the importance of primary care is not lost. A major focus of the department is exposure to primary care in every student experience whether it be in a general pediatric setting or in one of the specialty clinics.
The pediatric residency program is integrated into a curriculum involving Memorial Hermann Children’s Hospital, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Lyndon B. Johnson General (LBJ) Hospital. These residency programs, too, have a special emphasis on primary care and are designed to train general pediatricians.
Accredited post-residency subspecialty fellowships training programs are available in the Department of Pediatrics and include child neurology, endocrinology, genetics/dysmorphology, hematology/oncology, neonatology, and nephrology, infectious diseases, ambulatory pediatrics, pulmonology, adolescent medicine, and critical care medicine.
Interim Chair and Associate Michelle Bain Distinguished Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Pediatric Hematology Professor and Division Director Richard Warren Mithoff Professor in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Michael Knight Memorial Professor in Pediatrics, Professor
and Developmental Division Director Professor and Infectious Diseases Division Director Professor and Gastroenterology- Professor and Nephrology Division Director Professor and Cardiology Division Director Professor and Adolescent Medicine Professor and Endocrinology Associate Professor and Housestaff Director, Vice Chair
for Education and Training Associate Professor and LBJ Chief of Pediatrics and Director
of Newborn Services, Vice Chair Professor and Medical Genetics Professor and Community and Professors |
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