Department Chairs - Clinical
- Dr. Bobby R. Alford
- Timothy B. Boone, M.D., Ph.D.
- Dale Brown, Jr., M.D.
- F. Charles Brunicardi, M.D.
- Ralph D. Feigin, M.D.
- Martin Grabois, M.D.
- Michael H. Heggeness, M.D., Ph.D.
- Dan B. Jones, M.D.
- Michel Elias Mawad, M.D.
- Stephen J. Spann, M.D.
- Maya S. Suresh, M.D.
- David J. Tweardy, M.D.
- John E. Wolf, Jr., M.D.
- Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D.
Dr. Bobby R. Alford
Chancellor
Dr. Bobby R. Alford, Chancellor at Baylor College of Medicine, is also a professor of otorhinolaryngology and communicative sciences. In 1985, he was appointed a Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor. He has served as chair of the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery since 1967. In January 1996, the Baylor Board of Trustees named the department in his honor.
Alford serves on the staff of several hospitals in the Houston area: The Methodist Hospital, the Ben Taub General Hospital, the St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, the Texas Children's Hospital, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research. He is chief of service at Methodist, Ben Taub and the VA. Alford is also chair of the board and CEO of the National Space Biomedical Institute, a consortium of 12 universities.
Timothy B. Boone, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Urology
Timothy B. Boone, M.D., Ph.D., chair and professor in the Scott Department of Urology, earned his master's degree in physiology and his Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He graduated from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and completed his residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.
He joined the Baylor faculty as an assistant professor in 1992. He is the medical director of the Urodynamics Laboratories at both The Methodist Hospital and St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and has a secondary appointment to the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He is also a staff urologist at the Spinal Cord Injury Unit at the Houston VA Medical Center.
Boone is a member of the Executive Board of the Texas Urological Society and serves as a consultant reviewer for several scientific journals, including Neurourology and Urodynamics, The Journal of Urology, and Urology.
Dale Brown, Jr., M.D.
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Dale Brown, Jr. is the Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Dr. Brown has served as vice chair of the department for six years and is the associate chief for gynecology at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, where he also served as chief of staff from 1996-1998.
Dr. Brown received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School. He completed his residency training at the Tulane Unit of Charity Hospital in New Orleans, La. After service in the United States Air Force, he became a certified diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1971, he moved to Houston and began a clinical teaching relationship with BCM. In March of 2000, he became a full-time faculty member.
F. Charles Brunicardi, M.D.
Chair, Department of Surgery
F. Charles Brunicardi, M.D., is the DeBakey/Bard Professor and chair of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery and chief of Surgical Services at The Methodist Hospital since April 1999. He joined the Baylor faculty in 1995 as a professor of surgery and has served as the chief of the Division of General Surgery and the Clinical General Surgery Service at The Methodist Hospital. Brunicardi served as executive director of the Baylor/Methodist Multi-Organ Transplant Center from 1995-1999. He is also a consultant and attending surgeon at the Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ben Taub General Hospital, and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
He received his medical degree from Rutgers School of Medicine before he became a resident and eventually chief resident in general surgery at the State University of New York (SUNY) Health Science Center in Brooklyn. He also spent a three-year research fellowship in pancreatic physiology at SUNY.
In 1989, Brunicardi began a six-year tenure with UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Along with his position as a staff surgeon, he became the acting director of trauma, co director and director of the Islet Transplantation Program, successively. He was also an associate professor of Surgery at UCLA, where he directed a statewide National Institutes of Health-funded program for transplanting human islets of Langerhans. In coming to Baylor, Brunicardi developed a research program in molecular physiology of the endocrine pancreas, funded by the National Institutes of Health. He has developed a basic science research program for the Division of General Surgery which provides research fellowships for residents in general surgery.
Brunicardi has received numerous honors, is a member of more than 35 professional societies and has co-authored 115 publications and 79 abstracts.
Ralph D. Feigin, M.D.
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Ralph D. Feigin, M.D., is the J. S. Abercrombie Professor of Pediatrics, chair of the Department of Pediatrics and physician-in-chief of Texas Children's Hospital. In 1990, he was named a Distinguished Service Professor, in 1992, senior vice president, and in 1994, he assumed the role of dean of medical education. He was named president and chief executive officer of Baylor in 1996 and served in that post through February 2003.
Feigin received his M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric internship at Boston City Hospital and served as a pediatric resident at both Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals. Prior to coming to Houston, Feigin was a member of the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo., rising from instructor in 1968 to professor in 1974. He served as director of the division of infectious diseases in the Department of Pediatrics from 1973-1977 and director of the bacteriology and serology laboratories at St. Louis Children's Hospital from 1972-1977.
Recognized as an outstanding teacher, he has received numerous awards. In 1995, he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine. In 1996, he received the Distinguished Physician Award from the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society.
Feigin is the author of more than 400 published articles or chapters in journals and books. He is currently editor of Pediatrics.
Martin Grabois, M.D.
Chair, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Martin Grabois, M.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor. Grabois received his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine.
He is chairman of the executive committee of the BCM/UTHMS (University of Texas-Houston Medical School) Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance, a combined effort in the development of educational, clinical and research activities in the field in Houston. Grabois has received of a number of awards including the Distinguished Service Award in 1999 from the Southern Pain Society.
He is an oral examiner for the American Board of PM&R, Editor of Critical Reviews in PM&R, and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Back & Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation. He is also a member of the board of directors and a member at large of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Michael H. Heggeness, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Michael H. Heggeness, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, is a spine surgeon who is active in both patient care and research. He is certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and is actively involved in teaching activities at Baylor. He has published many papers and articles and speaks regularly at national and international meetings and symposia.
He serves as the director of the Center for Orthopedic Research and Education at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, chief of Orthopedic Spine Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Houston, and is a spine consultant to The Houston Ballet.
Heggeness received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California at San Diego. After doing research in virology at the Rockefeller University in New York, he earned his M.D. from the University of Miami in Florida. Heggeness completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at St. Luke's Roosevelt Center in New York City and pursued a fellowship in disorders of the spine at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
Dan B. Jones, M.D.
Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Dr. Dan B. Jones joined the Department of Ophthalmology at Baylor as associate professor in 1972, was promoted to professor of ophthalmology in 1978 and appointed as chair of the department in 1981. He is currently the Sid W. Richardson Professor, Distinguished Service Professor, and Margarett Root Brown Chair of Ophthalmology and chief of Ophthalmology Service of The Methodist Hospital and Ben Taub General Hospital.
In addition, he is dean of Clinical Affairs and board chair of Baylor MedCare, the full time faculty practice plan. He is also president and chairman of the Board of Baylor Eye Care Alliance Inc., a network of full time faculty and participating physician ophthalmologists in the greater Houston area. Prior to joining Baylor, Jones was assistant professor of ophthalmology from 1969 to 1971 and associate professor from 1971 to1972 in the Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Michel Elias Mawad, M.D.
Chair, Department of Radiology
Dr. Michel Elias Mawad is chair and professor in the Department of Radiology. He graduated from the French School of Medicine in 1976.
He did a flexible residency at St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., and his diagnostic radiology residency at St. Luke's Hospital Center in New York, where he was chief resident from 1979-1980. He did a fellowship in neuroradiology at the Neurological Institute of New York at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
After serving as an assistant professor of radiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, he came to Baylor as a clinical assistant professor of radiology in 1984. He has served as director of neuroradiology since 1988.
He became a full professor in 1996 and currently serves as a professor in both the Departments of Radiology and Ophthalmology. He serves as a consulting radiologist at all of Baylor's affiliated hospitals as well as at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He was named chair of the Department of Radiology in 2001.
Stephen J. Spann, M.D.
Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Stephen Spann, M.D., received his bachelor's degree at Baylor University and his medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine. He interned at Baylor affiliated hospitals and did his residency at Duke University School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, N.C.
He came back to Baylor 1997 to serve as professor and chair of the school's Department of Family and Community Medicine. Prior to that, he served as an instructor in family medicine at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. He served as an assistant and then associate professor of family medicine at the Oklahoma University Health Center in Oklahoma City. From 1990-1997, he served as professor and chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
Spann is the author and co-author of many professional articles in his field and has written chapters in texts on family medicine in both Spanish and English.
Maya S. Suresh, M.D.
Interim Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
Dr. Maya S. Suresh is a professor of anesthesiology, interim chair of the department of anesthesiology, and the Division Chief of Obstetric and Gynecologic Anesthesiology at Ben Taub General Hospital. She is a graduate of Gandhi Medical College, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.
Dr. Suresh completed an anesthesiology residency at Medical College of Virginia, and an obstetric anesthesia fellowship and pediatric anesthesia subspecialty training at Boston Lying-In Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital respectively. She has served as an examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiologists. She initiated and started a fellowship program in obstetric anesthesia in 1994. She serves on the Board of Directors and the Education Committee of the Society of Airway Management and the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists’ Economics Committee.
Dr. Suresh has received numerous awards for both teaching and research. Her clinical and research interests include preeclampsia and vascular adaptations in normal pregnancy and with hypertension in pregnancy, and teaching airway management for difficult airways.
David J. Tweardy, M.D.
Interim Chair, Department of Medicine
David Tweardy, M.D., has been named interim chair of the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Medicine.
Tweardy, who is chief of infectious disease and interim chief of immunology, allergy and rheumatology, is a professor of medicine and molecular and cellular biology. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School.
He is an internationally recognized expert in peptide hormone signaling research.
John E. Wolf, Jr., M.D.
Chair, Department of Dermatology
Dr. John E. Wolf, Jr., chair of the Department of Dermatology, is a graduate of Rice University and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He completed a medical internship at Cornell University/Bellevue Hospital in New York City before serving two years as a Peace Corps physician in the Micronesian Islands. Wolf was subsequently a dermatology resident at the University of California in San Francisco, a fellow in tropical dermatology in Guadalajara, and senior registrar at St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin in London, England.
Wolfe is also chair of the Public Affairs Advisory Committee and serves on the steering committee of the History of Medicine Society.
Wolf has authored more than 150 publications and delivered more than 1,000 professional lectures.
Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D.
Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D., is the D.C. and Irene Ellwood Professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is the chief of Psychiatry Service at The Methodist Hospital and oversees academic activities in psychiatry at Ben Taub General Hospital, the Houston Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital and the DePelchin Children's Center.
Prior to moving to Houston in 1991, Yudofsky was professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago and chief of Psychiatric Services for the University of Chicago Hospital System. He was founding director of the psychiatry department of Allegheny General Hospital and director of psychiatric research at the Allegheny-Singer Research Institute. For 14 years, he was on the faculty of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was vice chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, clinical director and deputy director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
For the past 12 years, he has been editor of The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences and the author/co-author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters. Yudofsky has been elected to the membership of numerous national honorary societies and is on the editorial boards of eight scientific journals.