Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Alumni

Maeve Bartiss, M.D. (2024 – 2025)
Board Certified – Palliative Care
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow (Pediatrics)

• Medical School: The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, United States, August 2016 – May 2020
• Residency: Chief Resident, Pediatrics, Spectrum Health/ Michigan State University/Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Grand Rapids, Mich., July 2020 – June 2024 (47 months)
• Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, Houston, Texas
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospital, Mich.

Joshua Lipsitz, M.D. (2024 – 2025)
Board Certified – Palliative Care
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow (Pediatrics)

• Medical School: George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, United States, August 2017 – May 2021
• Residency: Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern/Children's Health, Dallas, Texas, June 2021 – June 2024 (36 months)
• Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, Houston, Texas
• Current Position: Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship, Houston, Texas

Sandra Aziz, M.D. (2023 – 2024)
Board Certified – Palliative Care

• Medical School: Texas Tech University School of Medicine, Texas
• Fellowship: UCSD Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program, Calif.
• Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, Houston, Texas
• Residency: University of New Mexico Pediatric Residency, N.M.
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Palliative Care, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, Calif.

Alexandra E. Rodriguez-Hernandez, M.D., MPH (2023 – 2024)
Board Certified – Palliative Care

• Medical School: Ponce Health Sciences University School of Medicine, Puerto Rico
• Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, Houston, Texas
• Fellowship: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
• Residency: University Pediatric Hospital San Juan
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Palliative Care, Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, Ind.

Brittany Ann Cowfer, M.D. (2022 – 2023)
Board Certified – Palliative Care
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow (Pediatrics)

• Medical School: University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colo.
• Residency: Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
• Fellowship: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (Pediatrics), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn.
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Pediatric Palliative Care Faculty at St Jude’s/La Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.

Matthew Tenison McEvoy, M.D. (2022 – 2023)
Board Certified – Palliative Care
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow (Pediatrics)

• Medical School: Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Bryan, Texas
• Residency: University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colo.
• Fellowship: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (Pediatrics), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Pediatric Palliative Care Faculty at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas

Terri Major-Kincade, M.D. (2021 – 2022)
Board Eligible – Palliative Care
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow (Pediatrics)

• Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
• Residency: Pediatrics, UT Southwestern Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
• Fellowship: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, UT Houston Medical School/Health Science
• Current Position: Medical Director, Pediatric Palliative Care, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Memorial Hermann Children’s Hospital-TMC, Houston, Texas

David Mauser, M.D. (2021 – 2022)
Board Certified – Palliative Care
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow (Pediatrics)

• Medical School: University of Louisville School of Medicine
• Residency: Pediatrics, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Quality of Life and Pediatric Palliative Care, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine and Stanford Medicine Children's Health, Palo Alto, Calif.

Elizabeth Seashore, M.D. (2020 – 2021)
Board Certified – Palliative Care

• Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
• Residency: Pediatrics, New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
• Fellowship: Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Pediatric Palliative Care, University of California, San Francisco, Calif.

Selby Chu, M.D. (2019 – 2020)
Board Certified – Palliative Care

• Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y.
• Residency: Pediatrics, Northwestern, Chicago, Ill.
• Current Position: Pediatric Critical Care Fellow, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.

Nurah Lawal, M.D. (2019 – 2020)
Board Certified – Palliative Care

• Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine
• Residency: Pediatrics, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, Calif.
• Current Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Palliative Care, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Marina Ma, M.D. (2018 – 2019)
Board Certified – Palliative Care

• Medical School: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya Fakultas Kedokteran
• Residency: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
• Fellowship: Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ala.
• Current Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Divisions of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation & Palliative Care, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Alana Carpenter (Thomas), M.D. (2018 – 2019)
Board Certified – Palliative Care

• Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, Ariz.
• Residency: Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
• Fellowship: Neonatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
• Current Position: Faculty Neonatologist, The Women’s Hospital, Houston, Texas

Kimberly Sawyer (Lehecka), M.D. (2017 – 2018)
Board Certified – Palliative Care

• Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
• Residency: Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
• Fellowship: Clinical Bioethics, Seattle Children’s, Wash.
• Current Position: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Palliative Care, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas