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From
the medical staff president
2006 was an active, productive, exciting year
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Dr. Joseph A. Garcia-Prats
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By Joseph A. Garcia-Prats, M.D.
The end of the year brings nippy weather, runny noses, holiday cheer, reasons to be thankful and reflection of the past 12 months, and hope for a peaceful and prosperous new year with its endless possibilities and renewal.
With the end of the calendar year comes the “changing of the guard” as I step down and Dr. Arnold Kagan begins his tenure as president of the medical staff. I wish Arnie the best of luck and am excited for him and his involvement with the many endeavors that Texas Children’s Hospital will embark upon in these next few years. I truly thank Arnie
for his willingness to participate in medical staff activities
in his new role. He epitomizes what I have been encouraging my
medical staff colleagues to do: Get involved in the medical
staff committees at Texas Children’s Hospital.
Our medical staff is large and talented and everyone has so much to offer to this wonderful institution. There are opportunities to share your talents by being members of numerous hospital committees such as the bioethics committee, the critical care committee, the emergency room committee or child protection committee,
to name just a few. Please share your talent and make our children’s care even better.
I would also like to recognize Dr. Sherri Mitchell and Dr. Alyssa Atlas for getting involved in what we do here at Texas Children’s Hospital. Each contributed their unique talents and their time. So, my parting challenge to each of you is to GET INVOLVED.
Another issue packed with information
This issue of Progress Notes covers some interesting topics. For instance, did you know that we’ve added 84 new members to the medical staff, and that many relocated to Houston to join Texas Children’s and Baylor College of Medicine? Read Physician-in-Chief
Dr. Ralph Feigin’s article to find out who the new chiefs of service are and a complete list of practitioners who have joined our medial staff since July.
In this issue’s bench-to-bedside article, Dr. Jun Teruya gives us an inside look at research on
Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia, which is a rare congenital platelet function defect that causes systemic purpura, nosebleed, and sometimes intracranial bleeding. Dr. Teruya describes two new tests that are being used for platelet function.
Also in this issue, Dr. Dale Brown, acting chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital, gives us the inside skinny on the exciting expansion and renaming of our
fetal program, and the recruitment of two outstanding fetal interventionists from the University of North Carolina – Anthony Johnson, D.O., and Kenneth J. Moise Jr., M.D.
As you will see in our
Texas Children’s news for the medical staff, there are many, many exciting new developments going on at Texas Children’s.
It has been a pleasure to represent you this year as president. I thank you for your support and look forward to continuing to work with you in the new year.
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