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Medical Staff

The physicians who treat patients at Children's Medical Center Dallas are not employees or agents of Children's. They are either (i) independent physicians engaged in the private practice of medicine who have staff privileges at Children's; (ii) independent physicians who are independent contractors and have staff privileges at Children's; (iii) physicians employed by The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas or another institution who have staff privileges at Children's; or (iv) physicians participating in the care of patients as part of a post-graduate medical education program.

Attending physicians

Brian Binck, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics
Board Eligible for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Tania D. Burns, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Cindy Darnell, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics
Board Eligible for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Leslie Garner, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics
Board Eligible for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Brett P. Giroir, M.D.,

Pediatric Intensivist
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Professor with tenure, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Steve Kernie, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist
Director, Fellowship Program
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Erica Molitor-Kirsch, M.D.

Cardiac Intensivist
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Fiona Howard Levy, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist
Senior Director of Cilnical Quality and Performance Improvement
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Peter M. Luckett, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist
Chief of Pulmonary Medicine
Medical Director, Respiratory Care
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine

Frances C. Morriss, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist, Anesthesiologist
Medical Director, Nurse Practitioner Practice
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics, Anesthesiology and Pain Management

Maeve Sheehan, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics
Board Eligible for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Paul Sheeran, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist, Anesthesiologist
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia
Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Board Certified Anesthesiology and Pain Management

Paul Shore, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics
Board Eligible for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Daniel Stromberg, M.D.

Cardiac Intensivist
Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology

James A. Thomas, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist, Chief of Critical Care Services
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Pediatrics
Director, Division of Pediatric Critical Care
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Marita T. Thompson, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist
Medical Director, Pediatric Trauma
Medical Director, ECMO program, Neurosurgical Intensive Care
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Tia Tortoriello, M.D.

Cardiac Intensivist
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics
Board Eligible for Pediatric Cardiology

Brigham Willis, M.D.

Pediatric Intensivist
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UT Southwestern
Board Certified Pediatrics
Board Eligible for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Pediatric Fellows

Robert Alisharan, M.D.
Christine Allen, M.D.
Tracy Ekhardt, M.D.
Emilie Henry, M.D.
Adam Holmes, M.D.
Isabelle King, M.D.
Ashley Loomis, M.D.
Darryl Miles, M.D.
Jason Peck, M.D.
Randall Schwartz, M.D.
Muthukumar Vellaichamy M.D.
Eunice Yoon, M.D.

Clinical Research Coordinators

Tracine Adame, R.N., M.S.N.
Kristin Foglia, B.S.
Deborah Town, R.N., C.C.R.C.

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