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Feigin:
Service chiefs vital to planning process |
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From
the physician-in-chief
Hospital matches future growth to facilities
and residents to training programs
By Ralph D. Feigin, M.D.
Service chiefs’ input drives strategic
planning efforts
The Strategic Planning Task Force for Texas Children’s Hospital
continues to work actively to achieve its goals of presenting a
plan to the board of trustees in the fall. The Special Strategic
Planning Steering Leadership Committee sent a nine-page survey
to service chiefs and is wrapping up interviews with them and
others concerning projected changes in health care over the next
decade. Service chiefs who have not yet completed the survey
should move quickly to be sure the plans for their service are
included. In particular, the interviews and surveys hope to
capture the potential impact of environmental factors on
specific services, as well as the impact that may occur as a
result of current and future research on various medical
conditions.
Information from these surveys will
be melded with information required to project facility needs
and financial resources, reviewed and prioritized by senior
physician and administrative leaders, and then our five-year
plan for future clinical, educational and research space updated
accordingly.
If you have any questions about the
strategic planning process or your role, contact the steering
committee directly by
e-mail.
National Resident and Intern Matching
Program results outstanding
National Resident and Intern Matching Program results became
available since the last newsletter was published. The largest
of the training programs at Texas Children’s is the General
Pediatrics Residency Training Program. Once again the results
were outstanding with the program matching its top choices.
Newly matched applicants will be coming from the University of
Alabama School of Medicine, the University of Arkansas School of
Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Dallas-Southwestern
Medical School, Duke University School of Medicine, Emory
University School of Medicine, Harvard University School of
Medicine, Mayo School of Medicine, the Meharry School of
Medicine, the University of Nebraska School of Medicine, the
University of Connecticut, the University of Rochester School of
Medicine, UT Houston School of Medicine, the University of South
Carolina School of Medicine, the University of Puerto School of
Medicine, Texas A&M University School of Medicine, the
University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Yale
University School of Medicine. Please join me in welcoming these
new individuals when they arrive toward the end of June.
A significant number of new faculty
will be joining the Texas Children’s Hospital and various
respective departments at Baylor College of Medicine beginning
in July. These include: Carla M. Davis, Allergy and Immunology;
Chris Glover, Anesthesiology; Aruna Nathan, Anesthesiology;
Richard Vax, Anesthesiology; Carole Lin, Anesthesiology; Alan
Nugent, Pediatric Cardiology (Interventional Cardiologist);
Leticia Castillo, Critical Care
Medicine; Adiaha Spinks, Developmental Pediatrics; Prachi Shah,
Developmental Pediatrics; Meegan Leve, Emergency Medicine;
Ricardo Quinonez, Retrovirology; Angela Glandon-Hyun,
Neonatology; Barbara Reid, Gastroenterology and Nutrition;
Robert Castellino, Hematology/Oncology; G. S. Gopalakrishna,
Gastroenterology and Nutrition; Youngna Lee-Kim, Pediatric
Oncology; Rachel Egler, Pediatric Oncology; Gary Myers,
Pediatric Oncology; Debra Shardy, Pediatric Oncology; Hui-Chen
Lu, Pediatric Neurology; Atefeh Hosseini, Pediatric Neurology;
James Owens Jr., Pediatric Neurology and Neurophysiology;
Gretchen Wieck, Pediatric Neurology; Robert Zeller, Pediatric
Neurology; Carlos Rivera, Pediatric Neurology; Jeffrey Neul,
Pediatric Neurology; Steven Maricich, Pediatric Neurology; Adele
El-Hennawy, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition; Aliya
Ahmed, Emergency Medicine; Imad Jarjour, Pediatric Neurology;
Eric Eichenwald, Pediatric Neonatology; Oluyemisi Oyafemi,
Pediatric Neonatology; Beverly Brozanski, Pediatric Neonatology;
Macharia Carter, Emergency Medicine; Lisa Fuller, Neonatology;
Annabelle Chua, Pediatric Nephrology; Kebba Jobarteh,
Retrovirology; Ann Gerges, Emergency Medicine; Reena Isaac,
Emergency Medicine Section; Kathleen Ferrer, Retrovirology; and
David Nelson, Pediatric Cardiology (Intensive Care).
We are pleased to welcome these
outstanding individuals. Many have been trained here and others
have come from institutions throughout the United States where
they have performed superbly. Some of them have held
distinguished leadership positions at other institutions such as
Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, Stanford
University School of Medicine and Packard Children’s Hospital,
the Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine at Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital, Johns
Hopkins University of Medicine and others.
We are pleased to have them join us
and look forward to having them share their expertise with the
Texas Children’s Hospital community of physicians and their
patients.
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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