The Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Department of Surgery
The Department of Pediatrics

Faculty and Staff

The Phoenix was chosen as the icon of the Division to symbolize rebirth. The Phoenix rises from the ashes reborn, just as a patient, shackled by disease, is transformed into having a healthy, productive lifestyle following transplantation.


Faculty


Clinical Fellows

 


Staff

Administrative Staff

Diane Eady - MSB 6.240
Executive Assistant
Phone: 713-500-7402
Fax: 713-500-0785
email: Diane.Eady@uth.tmc.edu

Lasaundra Garrett - MSB 6.262
Sr. Support Specialist
Phone: 713-500-7390
Fax: 713-500-0792
email: Lasaundra.K.Garrett@uth.tmc.edu

Sherry Gibson - MSB 6.240
Sr. Executive Assistant
Phone: 713-500-7401
Fax: 713-500-0785
email: Sherry.J.Gibson@uth.tmc.edu

Scott C. Holmes - MSB 6.280
Medical Illustrator
Director of Graphic Services
- Department of Surgery
- Department of Pediatric Surgery
- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Phone: 713-500-7358
Fax: 713-500-0785
email: Scott.Holmes@uth.tmc.edu

Fran Howard - MSB 6.260
Senior Support Specialist
Phone: 713-500-7383
Fax: 713-500-0720
email: Fran.L.Howard@uth.tmc.edu

James E. Hyland III - MSB 6.220
Administrative Services Officer
Phone: 713-500-7425
Fax: 713-500-0785
email: James.E.Hyland@uth.tmc.edu

Kissie Joubert - MSB 6.246
Senior Staff Assistant
Phone: 713-500-7374
Fax: 713-500-0784
email: Kissie.Joubert@uth.tmc.edu

Tuan Nguyen - MSB 6.254
Programmer Analyst II
Phone: 713-500-7304
Fax: 713-500-0785
email: Tuan.Nguyen@uth.tmc.edu

Thien Phan - MSIT
Systems & Applications Specialist II
Phone: 713-500-7352
email: Thien.Phan@uth.tmc.edu
HELP DESK

Hoa Quach - MSB 6.252
Oracle Database Administrator
Phone: 713-500-7355
Fax: 713-500-0785
email: Hoa.Quach@uth.tmc.edu

Shawn R. Smith - MSB 6.278
Research Administrator
Phone: 713-500-7429
Fax: 713-500-0785
email: Shawn.R.Smith@uth.tmc.edu

Rhonda Tidwell - MSB 6.256
Senior Support Specialist
Phone: 713-500-7424
Fax: 713-500-0785
email: Rhonda.E.Tidwell@uth.tmc.edu

Histocompatibility Lab

Noriel Acorda  - MSB 6.432
Research Associate
Phone: 713-500-0792
Fax: 713-500-0792
email: Noriel.Acorda@uth.tmc.edu

Craig Adkins - MSB 6.432
Research Assistant I
Phone: 713-500-7380
Fax: 713-500-0792
email: Craig.Adkins@uth.tmc.edu

Ivy Baines - MSB 4.614
Laboratory Technican II
Phone: 713-500-7423
Fax: 713-500-0765
email: Ivy.N.Baines@uth.tmc.edu

Rae-Anne Hines - MSB 6.432
Research Assistant I
Phone: 713-500-7380
Fax: 713-500-0792
email: Rae-Anne.Hines@uth.tmc.edu

Esther Kelley - MSB 6.432
Research Assistant I
Phone: 713-500-7380
Fax: 713-500-0792
email: Esther.Kelley@uth.tmc.edu

Eva McKissick - MSB 6.428
Sr. Research Associate
Phone: 713-500-7378
Fax: 713-500-0792
email: Eva.L.McKissick@uth.tmc.edu

Kristah Miller - MSB 6.432
Research Assistant I
Phone: 713-500-7388
Fax: 713-500-0792
email: Kristah.Miller@uth.tmc.edu

Brandt Moore - MSB 6.432
Research Assistant II
Phone: 713-500-7380
Fax: 713-500-0792
email: Brandt.Moore@uth.tmc.edu

Jamie Peña - MSB 6.259
Support Specialist
Phone: 713-500-7380
Fax: 713-500-0792
email: Jamie.Pena@uth.tmc.edu

Luis Rodriguez - MSB 6.432
Research Assistant I
Phone: 713-500-7388
Fax: 713-500-0792
email: Luis.E.Rodriguez@uth.tmc.edu

Nicholas Woolley - MSB 6.432
Research Assistant II
Phone: 713-500-7380
Fax: 713-500-0792
email: Nicholas.Woolley@uth.tmc.edu

Drug Monitoring Lab

Shawn L. Balark - MSB 6.233
Medical Technologist III
Phone: 713-500-7395
Fax: 713-500-7348
email: Shawn.L.Balark@uth.tmc.edu

Andre Smith - MSB 6.257
Sr. Research Assistant
Phone: 713-500-7347
Fax: 713-500-7348
email: Andre.D.Smith@uth.tmc.edu

Marilyn Sonilal - MSB 6.257
Medical Technologist III
Phone: 713-500-7347
Fax: 713-500-7348
email: Marilyn.Sonilal@uth.tmc.edu

Neelam Tejpal, MS - MSB 6.255
Research Scientist - Casual
Phone: 713-500-7368
Fax: 713-500-7348
email: Neelam.Tejpal@uth.tmc.edu

Thelma Whitaker - MSB 6.257
Support Specialist
Phone: 713-500-7392
Fax: 713-500-7348
email: Thelma.C.Whitaker@uth.tmc.edu

Research

Brian Childs - MSB 6.250
Senior Research Assistant
Phone: 713-500-0792
email:Brian.A.Childs@uth.tmc.edu

Dan Yang Liu, MS - MSB 4.632
Senior Research Assistant
Phone: 713-500-7418
email: dan.y.liu@uth.tmc.edu

Jeanette M. Podbielski, RN, BSN - MSB 6.240
Senior Research Nurse
Phone: 713-704-6351
email: Jeanette.M.Podbielski@uth.tmc.edu

Linda P. Schoenberg, RN, BSN - MSB 6.240
Senior Research Nurse - Casual
Phone: 713-704-6351
email: Linda.P.Schoenberg@uth.tmc.edu

Renal Transplant Coordinators

Sherita Taylor, RN - SLEH
Transplant Coordinator

Susan Laneri, RN - SLEH
Transplant Coordinator

Debra Hosey, RN, MSN - SLEH
Transplant Coordinator

Karen Newby, RN - SLEH
Transplant Coordinator

Michelle Turner, RN - SLEH
Transplant Coordinator

Marta Zeledon, RN - SLEH
Transplant Coordinator

Rebecca Chester, RN - SLEH
Transplant Coordinator

Jennifer L Jeter, RN - MHH-TMC
Transplant Coordinator
Phone: 713-704-1906
email: jennifer.jeter@memorialhermann.org

Barbara Morales, RN - MHH-TMC
Transplant Coordinator
Phone: 713-704-1904

Sean Leonhardt, RN - MHH-TMC
Transplant Coordinator
Phone: 713-704-1905

Erin Darbonne, RN - MHH-TMC
Care Coordinator
Phone: 713-704-0106

Susan Feliciano, RN - MHH-TMC
Transplant Coordinator
Phone: 713-704-3998

Mary Jones, RN - MHH-TMC
Transplant Coordinator
Phone: 713-704-6935
email: Mary.Jones@memorialhermann.org
In 1977, cell phones, e-mail, and personal computers were not a part of daily life—and procedures such as laparoscopic kidney donation were not even conceived. But on May 22 of that year, the Division opened its doors to the critically ill and their needs, and has scarcely slowed down a day since. In the space of a year, it multiplied 6-fold to a 26-bed facility. Division doctors performed 32 transplants—almost double the number (18) that had been done in the entire city of Houston the year before."