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surgery, allergy and immunology, and adolescent and bariatric medicine. By early 2014, Dr. Gilger hopes to add section heads in neurology, nephrology and behavioral health. "We have lots of work to do to increase the number of subspecialists here in San Antonio," he says. "There are just too few right now." At the rate that physicians are being added to the staff at Children's Hospital of San Antonio, that means eight to 10 new faces each month for all of 2014. Teaching the Next Generation of Physicians Physicians aren't the only new faces that will be present on campus beginning in January. Baylor College of Medicine recently confirmed that some of its medical students will arrive to do four-week clinical rotations, far in advance of the start of Baylor's formal residency program at the hospital in 2015. "That's a huge surprise and delight to me. We were really anticipating Baylor College of Medicine students by summer, so when it was announced that Children's Hospital of San Antonio was ready to receive Baylor students for clinical work, we had a remarkable response," Dr. Gilger says. "We have 23 students who will begin arriving in January, and I anticipate that will increase in the coming months. I think that tells you the city of San Antonio is attractive to future physicians." The rapid pace at which things are happening downtown is music to the ears of one faculty member who has been waiting a long time for a freestanding children's hospital here. Richard Wayne, MD, who left private practice in 1991 to be the administrator of the then CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital, is thrilled about the campus, and he's even more excited about the partnership with Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital. "I thought we were going to get a children's hospital back in 1991, so I've been waiting for this for 20 years," says Dr. Wayne, who also serves as a Professor of Pediatrics with Baylor An artistic rendering of a patient room at the Children's Hospital of San Antonio In the heart of downtown, the Children's Hospital of San Antonio is transforming into a world-class center for pediatric care. BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE SECTION HEADS AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO: + Mark Gilger, MD, Pediatrician-in-Chief + Barry Cofer, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief + Vanessa Hill, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer + Suzanne Cuda, MD, Adolescent Medicine and Bariatric Medicine + Muhammad A. Mumtaz, MD, Cardiothoracic Surgery + Elumalai Appachi, MBBS, Critical Care + John Browning, MD, Dermatology + Luisa Rodriguez, MD, Endocrinology + Rebecca Huston, MD, General Pediatrics + Elizabeth Roeder, MD, Genetics + Ricardo Quinonez, MD, Hospital Medicine + Charles Leach, MD, Infectious Diseases + Felix Shardonofsky, MD, Pulmonary This list encompasses the new section heads at Children's Hospital of San Antonio as of Dec. 31. MDNEWS.COM ■ MD NEWS San Antonio |7

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