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For members of the Texas Children's Hospital medical staff
From the physician-in-chief
Join me in congratulating the graduates of our
residency and fellowship training programs
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Dr. Ralph D. Feigin |
By Ralph D. Feigin, M.D.
The end of
June and the beginning of July are always exciting times
in teaching hospitals around the United States. They
signify the period when individuals in residency and
fellowship training programs who have completed their
required years of training graduate and move on to other
endeavors, and it is also a time when we welcome new
entry level residents and fellows into the various
programs at Texas Children’s Hospital.
The single
largest group of graduates is those from the general
pediatric categorical residency training program and the
combined residency training program in medicine and
pediatrics. This year, 52 individuals completed their
training in these programs. Sixty percent entered
fellowship training in various different subspecialty
disciplines. Two individuals joined the Pediatric AIDS
Corps and are entering deployment to Lesotho, Africa, or
to Botswana, Africa. Three of the individuals stayed on
to become fourth-year chief residents in the categorical
pediatric training program, and the remainder entered
general pediatric community-based practices. Eighty
percent of the aggregate group is either continuing
their training in fellowship programs at Texas
Children’s Hospital or entered practice opportunities in
the greater Houston metropolitan area. We congratulate
all of these graduates as well as the graduates of the
other fellowship training programs at Texas Children’s
Hospital. A list of the residency graduates appears
below, and the sites of fellowship or practice are
listed beside the name of each individual. The three new
fourth year chief residents in the general pediatric
program are Drs. Kristin Koush, Manual Silva and Britt
Soderberg.
Dr. Kristin
Koush is a magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown
University and subsequently received her M.D. degree
from the Georgetown University School of Medicine from
which she graduated with highest honors and was elected
to Alpha Omega Alpha, the national honor medical
society. During her undergraduate years, she conducted
independent research on malarial parasitology and, in
particular, described the properties of HRP-2 and
postulated the use of this parasite protein for the
rapid diagnosis of falciparum malaria.
Dr. Manuel
Silva graduated from the Universidad de Monterrey,
Mexico, and also previously provided primary care as a
medical doctor in a community in Mexico. Manuel had done
much work internationally where his activities have
received high acclaim.
Dr. Britt
Soderberg received her undergraduate degree from
Wellesley College where she majored in psychology and
subsequently attended Tufts University School of
Medicine from which she graduated with highest honors
and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. She has authored
nine publications and, in particular, did some seminal
investigations in the area of fatty acid ethyl esters.
We
congratulate all of the graduates of our residency and
fellowship training programs and wish them the very best
for success in their future careers. All of the medical
staff extend a warm welcome to each and every new
trainee at Texas Children’s Hospital.
See a full list of residents who completed training
Ralph D. Feigin, M.D., is physician-in-chief at Texas Children's Hospital and professor and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine.
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