Updates

Critical Care
Our Houston Team

Chief of Service

Katri V. Typpo, MD, MPH

Associate Chiefs of Critical Care

Paul A. Checchia, MD

Matthew Allen Musick, MD

Wendy Quiroz Nasser, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC/PC

Matthew Keith Pesek, MD

Mohammad Hossein Tcharmtchi, MD, FAAP, FCCM

Fernando Stein, MD

Senior Medical Director, PICU

Kevin M. Roy, MD

Medical Director, CICU

Sebastian C. Tume, MD

Medical Director, Medical Center PICU

Melanie G. Kitagawa, MD, MHA

Medical Director, ACHD ICU

Bradley J. Scherer, MD

Medical Director, TICU

Nathan Serazin, MD

Medical Director, West Campus PICU

Mona Karimullah, MD

Medical Director, Woodlands

Nathaniel H. P. Strobel, MD

Medical Director, North Austin PICU

Eric J. Exelbert, MD

Medical Director, ECMO

James A. Thomas, MD, FAAP

Medical Director, Fellowship

Danny Castro, DO, MEd

Medical Director, Research

Jorge A. Coss Bu, MD

Medical Director, Respiratory Care

Manpreet Virk, MD

Medical Director, Surgical ICU Services

Ronald Blaine Easley, MD

Medical Director, Mission Control

Mona L. McPherson, MD

Associate Medical Director, PICU - The Woodlands

Christian L. Erikson, MD

Associate Medical Director, CICU (Scholarship)

Ronald A. Bronicki, MD

Associate Director, Fellowship (Research & Education)

Fong Wilson Lam, MD, FAAP

Associate Director, Fellowship (Scholarship)

Satid Thammasitboon, MD

Associate Director, Fellowship (Clinical Affairs)

Moushumi Sur, MD

Associate Director, Fellowship (Scholarship Program)

Jorge A. Coss Bu, MD

Associate Director, ECMO - Associate Medical Director (Simulation)

Patricia Bastero, MD

Attending Physicians

Natasha S. Afonso, MD, MPH

Mubbasheer Ahmed, MD

Ayse Akcan-Arikan, MD

Marc Michael Anders, MD

Ashish A. Ankola, MD, FAAP, FACC

Amy Sharon Arrington, MD, PhD

Patricia Bastero, MD

Dalia A. Bashir, MD

Aarti Bavare, MD, MPH

Saleh Bhar, MD

Priya Bhat, MD, MS

Nirica Borges, MD, FAAP, CMQ

John-David Bruce, MD

Jamie C. Cargill, MD

Danny Castro, DO, MEd

Paul A. Checchia, MD

Ryan D. Coleman, MD

Nana E. Coleman, MD

Jorge A. Coss Bu, MD

Kasey I. Davis, MD

Moreshwar S. Desai, MD

Kirby Davis Deshotels, MD

Katherine Doane, MD

Kristin J. Dolan, MD

Christian L. Erikson, MD

Jennifer Erklauer, MD

Saul Flores, MD

Thomas P. Fogarty III, MD, FAAP

Maria Carolina Gazzaneo, MD

Danny Gil, MD, MS, FAAP

Maryam Gilpatrick, MD

Jeanine M. Graf, MD

Efren Gutierrez, Jr., MD

R. Brandon Hunter, MD, FAAP

Gitanjali Indramohan, MD

Lauren Jacobs, MD

Ranjan Joshi, MBBS, MD

Jaime Leigh Jump, DO

Mona Karimullah, MD

Curtis E. Kennedy, MD

Taj M. Khan, MD

Mahmood H. Khichi, MD, FAAP, MBA

Melanie G. Kitagawa, MD, MHA

Austin C. Kleint, DO

Joseph J. Knadler, MD, FAAP

Erin Kritz, DO

Yi-Chen Lai, MD

Fong Wilson Lam, MD, FAAP

Laura L. Loftis, MD

Mona L. McPherson, MD

Raysa Morales-Demori MD, FAAP

Matthew Allen Musick, MD

Amir Navaei, MD

Trung Chanh Nguyen, MD

Rachel Ninemire, MD, MBA

Regina Okhuysen-Cawley, MD

Andrea Ontaneda, MD

Renan A. Orellana, MD

Christopher Osborne, MD

Matthew Keith Pesek, MD

Pamela C. Petersen, MD, FAAP

Venessa Lynn Pinto, MD, FAAP

Kriti Puri, MBBS, FAAP, FACC

Craig Pymento, MD

Asma Razavi, MD

Brian Rissmiller, MD

Dantin Jeramy Roddy, MD

Kevin M. Roy, MD

Amanda Ruth, MD

Divya G. Sabapathy, MD, MPH

Arun Saini MD, MS, FAAP, FCCM

Sanju Susan Samuel, MD, FAAP

Fabio Savorgnan, MD, MS, FAAP, FACC

Bradley J. Scherer, MD

Nathan Serazin, MD

Lara Shekerdemian, MD, MHA

Binayak Sigdel, MD

Manuel D. Silva-Carmona, MD

Fernando Stein, MD

Erik R. Su, MD

Moushumi Sur, MD

Satid Thammasitboon, MD

James A. Thomas, MD, FAAP

Rocky Tsang, MD

Sebastian C. Tume, MD

Diwakar Turaga, MD, PhD

Manpreet Virk, MD

Research Coordinators

Faridis Serrano Forty, PhD, CCRP

Director, Medical Center Advanced Practice Practitioners - PICU Unit

Thomas Fraiz, MS, PA-C

Associate Director, Medical Center Advanced Practice Practitioners - PICU Unit

Jessica Wagner Gregg, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC

Associate Director of Education

Jesse Pace Stoakes, PA-C

Medical Center Advanced Practice Practitioners - Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

Ruth M. Abelt, APRN, CPNP

Samantha Colbert, APP

Tammy Costic, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC

Elizabeth P. Elliott, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA

Donna Evans, APP

Thomas Fraiz, MS, PA-C

Anne Jeffers, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC

Hannah Beckman Jones, MSN, CPNP-AC

Lauren Keller, APP

Anne Lam, APRN, NP

Sara McClelland, APRN, CPNP-AC

Tiffany Nappier, APP

Elizabeth Neptune, MS, PA-C

Graciela Sanabria, APP

Jesse Pace Stoakes, PA-C

Kathleen Parks Thompson, MPAS, PA-C, FCCM

Director, Medical Center Advanced Practice Practitioners - CICU Unit

Michelle Medchill, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC

Associate Director, Medical Center Advanced Practice Practitioners - CICU Unit

Matthew Wisniewski, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC

Medical Center Advanced Practice Practitioners - Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)

Emily Ciocca, MS, PA-C

Christian Garcia, APRN, CPNP- AC

Kelli Irwin, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC

Jamie Limon, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC

Michelle Medchill, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC

Matthew Wisniewski, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC

Sarah Zachary, MS, PA-C

Director, West Campus Advanced Practice Practitioners

M. Fatima Garcia Westry, PA-C

West Campus Advanced Practice Practitioners

Megan Arnold, PA-C

Laura Funk, PA-C

M. Fatima Garcia Westry, PA-C

Faith Kinnear, APRN, CPNP-AC

Exie L. Meredith, APRN, DNP, CPNP-AC

Priscila Mount, MSN, APRN, CPNP-AC

Cynthia S. Nelson, MPH, MS, PA-C

Director, Woodlands Campus Advanced Practice Practitioners

Mark Riccioni, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC/PC

Woodlands Campus Advanced Practice Practitioners

Jamie Calvin, MPAS, PA-C

Mark Riccioni, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC/PC

Kristen R. Woodend, MMS, PA-C

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