Mary Hamra, PhD
Texas Children's Hospital
MC 19345C, PO Box 300630, Houston, TX 77230-0630
713-798-7227
e-mail:
mhamra@bcm.tmc.edu Hospital affiliation: TCH.
Academic appointment: Asst. Prof., Baylor.
Graduate school: U. Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 1985.
Specialty training: Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York).
Specialty interest: Cardiovascular physiology.
John Lynn Jefferies, MD, MPH
Baylor College of Medicine
6621 Fannin, MC 19345-C, Houston, TX 77030
832-826-5671; FAX 832-825-5630
e-mail:
jlj@bcm.tmc.edu Hospital affiliation: TCH, THI.
Academic appointments: Assist. Prof. Pediatric Cardiology, TCH; Co-director, Cardiac Intensive Care Research; Assist. Prof. Adult Cardiovascular Diseases, THI.
Medical school: Univ. Tennessee, Memphis.
Specialty training: Univ. Kentucky, Texas Heart Institute, Texas Children's Hospital.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Medicine, Am. Board Pediatrics.
Specialty interests: Adult congenital heart disease, heart failure, congenital heart disease.
Wanda C. Miller-Hance, MD
Texas Children's Hospital
6621 Fannin, WT 19345 H, Houston, TX 77030
832-826-5824; FAX 832-825-1903
e-mail:
wmh@bcm.tmc.edu Hospital affiliation: TCH.
Academic appointment: Assoc. Prof., Baylor.
Medical school: U. Wisconsin, 1981.
Certification: Am. Board Pediatrics - Sub-Board of Pediatric Cardiology, Am. Board Anesthesiology.
Specialty interests: Pediatric cardiovascular anesthesiology, pediatric cardiology, pediatric echocardiology.
Michael R. Nihill, MD, MB, BS, MRCP, FAAP, FACC, FACP
Texas Children's Hospital
MC 19345C, 6621 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030
832-826-5673; FAX 832-825-5899
e-mail:
mnihill@bcm.tmc.edu Hospital affiliations: TCH.
Academic appointment: Prof. Clin. Pediatrics, Baylor.
Medical school: Sydney U. (Australia), 1960.
Specialty training: Royal Alexandra Hosp. for Children (Sydney), Westminster Children's Hosp. (London), Baylor, TCH.
Certification: Am. Board Pediatrics (Pediatric Cardiology).
Specialty interests: Pulmonary hypertension, medical informatics.
Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD
Chief, Pediatric Cardiology, THI; Chief, Lillie Frank Abercrombie Section of Cardiology, TCH
Director, Phoebe Willingham Muzzy Pediatric Molecular Cardiology Laboratory, Baylor,
Texas Children's Hospital
MC 19345C, PO Box 300630, Houston, TX
77230-0630
832-826-5654; FAX 832-825-4153
e-mail:
jtowbin@bcm.tmc.edu Hospital affiliations: TCH, SLEH, Methodist, Ben Taub, Memorial Southwest, Woman's, Christus Saint Josephs.
Academic appointment: Prof., Baylor.
Medical school: U. Cincinnati, 1982.
Specialty training: Children's Hosp. Med. Center (Cincinnati), TCH.
Certification: Am. Board Pediatrics.
Specialty interests: Molecular genetic research on cardiomyopathy and sudden death syndromes (long QT syndrome, myocarditis), pediatric cardiac transplantation.
Thomas A. Vargo, MD, FACC, FAAP
Texas Children's Hospital
MC 19345C, 6621 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030
832-826-5537; FAX 832-825-1906
e-mail:
tavargo@texaschildrenshospital.org Hospital affiliations: TCH, SLEH, Columbia Bellaire, Harris County Hospital District, Memorial Southwest, Methodist, Park Plaza, Women's Hospital.
Academic appointment: Assoc. Prof., Baylor.
Medical school: UCLA, 1963.
Specialty training: U. Wisconsin.
Certification: Am. Board Pediatrics (Pediatric Cardiology).
Specialty interest: Clinical pediatric cardiology.
G. Wesley Vick III, MD, PhD, FACC
Texas Children's Hospital
MC 19345C, PO Box 300630, Houston, TX 77230-0630
832-826-5905; Fax 832-825-5923
e-mail:
gwvick@texaschildrenshospital.org Hospital affiliation: TCH.
Academic appointment: Asst. Prof., Baylor.
Medical school: Duke U., 1979.
Specialty training: Duke U., U. Alabama-Birmingham, Baylor.
Certification: Am. Board Pediatrics (Pediatric Cardiology).
Specialty interests: Echocardiography, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, use of computers in medicine.
