Directors
John B. Holcomb, MD, FACS
Program Director Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Surgery
Chief of the Division of Acute Care Surgery
Rosemary A. Kozar, MD, PhD
Associate Clinical Director James H. "Red" Duke, Jr. Professor of Surgery and Chief of Trauma, Memorial Hermann Hospital - TMC
Bruce C. Kone, MD
Associate Laboratory Director title
Executive Committee
Richard J. Andrassy, MD Professor and Chairman
Associate Dean for Clinical Operations
Jack H. Mayfield Distinguished University Chair in Surgery
Denton A. Cooley, M.D. Chair in Surgery
Frank G. Moody, MD Professor of Surgery The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Shibani Pati, MD, PhD Assistant Professor - Research
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
John E. Tyson, MD, MPH Assistant Professor - Research
Charles Cox Jr, MD Children's Fund Distinguished Professor and Director of the Pediatric Trauma Program at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital
Co-director of the ECMO Program
Primary Faculty
Tien C. Ko, MD Jack H. Mayfield Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Vice Chairman for Harris County Hospital District and Chief of Surgery at Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital
Pramad Dash, PhD Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Scientific Director of Mission Connect
Alex B. Valadka, MD Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Marie Francoise Doursout, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Lillian S. Kao, MD Associate Professor The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Jay Conyers, PhD Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Center for Translational Injury Research (CeTIR)
Brijesh "Billy" S. Gill, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Director of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care - Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital
Support Faculty
Deborah J. del Junco, PhD Professor, Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences
Eva M. Sevick-Muraca, PhD Professor and Cullen Chair in Molecular Medicine - The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine
Renata Pasqualini, PhD Buchanan and Seeger Professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Kevin Finkel. MD Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
William Dubinsky, Jr., PhD Professor of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Eugene Boisaubin, MD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Richard N. Bradley, MD Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Division Chief, EMS and Disaster Medicine The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Bryan Alan Cotton, MD, MPH Associate Professor The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Nena Matijevic, PhD Associate Professor - Research, Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Jing-Fei Dong, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Ernest Gonzalez, MD Assistant Professor,
Department of Surgery
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Yanna Cao, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery - Research Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Karen L. Uray, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Mitch Cohen, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director of Acute Care Research San Francisco Injury Center
Xiyun Deng, PhD Research Scientist
Department of Surgery
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Location & Contact
6431 Fannin Street
MSB 4.020
Houston, Texas 77030
Tel: 713-500-7200
Fax: 713-500-7213
Divisions
- Acute Care Surgery
- General Surgery
- Immunology & Organ Transplantation
- Minimally Invasive & Elective General Surgery
- Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
- Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
- Urology
Training Programs
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