Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship Alumni

Post-Graduate Outcomes
YearsNameLast Employment Status
2022 – 2025Ana Altaffer, M.D., M.S. Clinical ResearchVertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, Mass.
2022 – 2025Jessica Nguyen, M.D., M.Ed.Cook Children's Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas
2022 – 2025Yiressy Pina, M.D.CHRISTUS Children's, San Antonio, Texas
2021 – 2024Emily Beil, M.D., M.Ed.Clinical Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, N.C.
2021 – 2024Sharanya Joginpalli, M.D.Pediatrix Rheumatology Consultants, Austin, Texas
2020 – 2023Angela Chun, M.D., M.Ed.Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
2020 – 2023Leigh Stubbs, M.D.Cook Children’s Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas
2018 – 2021Ugo Awa, M.D.Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2018 – 2021Monica Bray, M.D.Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas
2017 – 2020Michael B. Nelson, M.D., M.P.H.Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
2017 – 2020Pooja Patel, D.O.Instructor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.
2016 – 2019William Lapin, M.D.Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Conn.
2016 – 2019Jennifer Rammel, M.D., MPHAssistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Fla.
2015 – 2018Miriah Gillispie-Taylor, M.D.Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2015 – 2018Maria Pereira, M.D.Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2014 – 2017Baruch Goldberg, M.D., MPHAssistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga.
2014 – 2017Joel Shirley, D.O.Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Urgent and Outpatient Specialty Care at Briargate, Colorado Springs, Colo.
2013 – 2016Saimun Singla, D.O.Integrative Medicine Fellowship, University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, Ariz.
2011 – 2014Patricia Rosillo, M.D.San Antonio Specialty Health & Sports Medicine, San Antonio, Texas
2012 – 2013Melissa Mizesko, M.D.Driscoll Children’s Hospital, Corpus Christi, Texas
2009 – 2012Ricardo Guirola, M.D., M.Ed.Rheumatology, Sports Medicine, Cook Children’s Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas
2008 – 2011Michelle Santiago, M.D.Private Practice, Puerto Rico, United States
2006 – 2009Andrea Ramirez, M.D., M.Ed.Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2005 – 2008Ankur Kamdar, M.D.Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center, Physician-Rheumatology, Houston, Texas
2004 – 2007Eyal Muscal, M.D., M.S. Clinical ResearchChief, Department of Pediatrics - Division of Rheumatology 
Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
2002 – 2005Christine Bernal, M.D.Chief, Section of Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila, Philippines
2000 – 2002Elivette Zambrana-Flores, M.D.Pediatric Rheumatology, HIMAHEALTH, San Pablo, Puerto Rico, United States
1994 – 1997Enid del Valle, M.D.Private Practice, Puerto Rico, United States
1993 – 1995Katherine Marzan, M.D.Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship Program Director, Los Angeles, Calif.
1992 – 1994Marietta de Guzman, M.D.Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
1990 – 1992Susan Hyatt Ballinger, M.D.Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Ind.
1989 – 1992Maria Perez, M.D.Associate Professor, Cook Children's Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas
1990Jaime de Inocencio, M.D.CS Estrecho De Corea, Madrid, Spain
1986 – 1987Kathleen Sheerin, M.D.Retired
1985 – 1987Ivonne Arroyo, M.D.Private Practice, Santurce, Puerto Rico, United States
1984 – 1987Carmen de Cunto, M.D.Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1984 – 1986Mary Moore, M.D.Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Kalamazoo, Mich.
1983 – 1985Abraham Gedalia, M.D.Chief, Pediatric Rheumatology and Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, La.
1983 – 1985Xiaohu He, M.D.Professor, Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing, China (deceased)
1982 – 1984Daniel Lovell, M.D., MPHProfessor, Associate Director, Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Chair, The Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group (PRCSG), Cincinnati, Ohio
1981 – 1983Andrew Wilking, M.D.Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
1979 – 1981Robert Nickeson, Jr., M.D.Chief of Pediatric Rheumatology, University of South Florida, All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Fla.