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From
the physician-in-chief
Welcoming new medical staff members
and celebrating Dr. Yow’s legacy
By Ralph D. Feigin, M.D.
The first of July represents a special day in the life of every
teaching hospital in the United States as it has come to mean
the end of one academic year and the beginning of another. As we
greet each new academic year, we in turn welcome all of the
individuals who have joined the medical staff during the prior
year, send our best wishes for future success to residents and
fellows who have graduated from their respective training
programs, and welcome our new residents in the many programs
sponsored by the pediatric disciplines at Baylor College of
Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital.
Three individuals you will see
throughout the hospital, and whose names you may wish to know
because of the need to contact them at one time or another, are
the new fourth-year chief residents for the General Pediatric
Training Program. Drs. Anthony Garcia-Prats, Sujit Iyer and
Brooke Lasics are available to help you with special
patient-care needs or concerns.
Between July 1, 2004, and June 30,
2005, 113 new physicians or allied health care providers were
appointed to our medical staff. These individuals spanned many
services, but in particular have broadened our capabilities in
areas such as allergy and immunology, anesthesiology,
cardiology, developmental pediatrics, diagnostic imaging,
emergency medicine, endocrinology and metabolism, intensive
care, neonatology, pediatric neurology, pediatric ophthalmology,
pediatric otorhinolaryngology, pediatric pulmonary medicine, and
pediatric urology.
In addition to those individuals,
there will be a number of other physicians who will join our
geographically-based group of physicians at Texas Children’s and
as members of the full-time faculty of the Department of
Pediatrics in the next several months. Included among this group
are two more senior appointments, including Dr. Leticia
Castillo, who has joined our critical care service. She has
served as director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at
Massachusetts General Hospital and as a senior associate in
Critical Care Medicine at Children’s Hospital in Boston. She
also has served as research director for the Division of
Critical Care for the Department of Anesthesia and as director of the Laboratory of
Nutrition and Metabolism at Boston Children’s Hospital.
In a few months, Dr. Eric Eichenwald,
currently director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, will join our
neonatology group.
In memoriam
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Martha
Dukes Yow, who had been a member of the Department of Pediatrics
at Baylor College of Medicine since 1952 and a member of the
staff of Texas Children’s Hospital since its inception in 1954.
Dr. Yow was an internationally
renowned authority in pediatric infectious diseases. She served
as director of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Section of the
Department of Pediatrics from 1957 to 1982 and served from 1964
to 1982 as director of the Junior League Outpatient Department
of Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Yow also was director of the
Infectious Disease Service at Texas Children’s Hospital at the
time of her retirement and director of the Viral Diagnostic
Laboratory at the Methodist Hospital from 1981 until her
retirement.
Dr. Yow was a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and
served as chairman of the Board of Counselors from 1975 to 1976.
She served on the Infectious Disease Committee of the American
Academy of Pediatrics and as chairman of The Red Book Committee
from 1976 to 1978. She served as a member of the editorial board
of the Journal of Infectious Diseases from 1975 to 1977 and from
1984 to 1989 served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of
Infectious Diseases.
Those of us such as myself who were
privileged to work with Dr. Yow on a daily basis remember her as
a superb teacher, an excellent clinician and an outstanding
investigator. I know all of us at Texas Children’s Hospital who
knew her mourn the loss of this outstanding pediatrician and
pediatric infectious disease specialist.
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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