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Medical Scientist Training Program

The MSTP - UT Houston provides students pursuing careers as physician-scientists the unique opportunity to earn dual MD/PhD degrees in a six to eight year integrated Program offered by McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Over the past 15 years (2010-2024) our MSTP has graduated 77 students (48% women; 26% URM).

All have gone into residency with these specialties:

Specialty Percentage of Graduates
Internal Medicine 28.57%
Neurology 15.58%
Pathology 12.99%
Neurosurgery 6.49%
Pediatrics 6.49%
Radiation Oncology 5.19%
Pediatric Neurology 3.90%
Psychiatry 3.90%
Anesthesiology 2.60%
Family Medicine 2.60%
Obstetrics and Gynecology 2.60%
Radiology 2.60%
Dermatology 1.30%
Emergency Medicine 1.30%
General Surgery 1.30%
Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine 1.30%
Vascular Surgery 1.30%

Post-Graduate Training of UT MD/PhD Program at Houston Graduates

  • 2021-2024
    Name MD/PhD Received Specialty Post-Graduate Training Current Position
    Renato Guerrieri 2024 Internal Medicine PSTP Univ of California San Diego
    Yash Lagisetty 2024 Psychiatry - Research Track Brown University
    Emily Mendez 2024 Child Neurology - Research Track Baylor College of Medicine
    April Nguyen 2024 Internal Medicine PSTP Baylor College of Medicine
    Raisa Reyes-Castro 2024 OB-GYN Univ of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences
    Carolina Garcia Garcia 2023 Internal Medicine PSTP Univ of Pennsylvania
    Pedram Peesh 2023 Neurosurgery UTHealth Houston - McGovern Medical School
    Anita Kaw 2023 Internal Medicine/Cardiology PSTP Emory University School of Medicine
    Nancy Wareing 2023 Internal Medicine Emory University School of Medicine
    Nathan Berg 2022 Pulmonary/Critical Care PSTP Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Kaveeta Kaw 2022 Internal Medicine/Cardiology PSTP Emory University School of Medicine
    Sarah Glazer 2022 Internal Medicine Oregon Health Science University
    Byung Kyu Kim 2022 Internal Medicine - Hematology/Oncology CITP Mayo Clinic Florida
    Carson Callahan 2022 Radiation Oncology University of Wisconsin
    Odemaris Narvaez del Pilar 2022 Pediatrics Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
    Cory Wilson 2021 Internal Medicine PSTP Univ of Iowa
    Jamie Wright 2021 Neurology Univ of Washington
    Kiefer Forseth 2021 Neurosurgery Univ of California San Diego
    Marisa Aitken 2021 Internal Medicine PSTP Univ of Michigan Fellow in Hematology-Oncology at University of Michigan PSTP
    Natasha Kharas 2021 Neurosurgery Cornell University
    Nick Karagas 2021 Neurology Univ of Washington
  • 2011-2020
    Name MD/PhD Received Specialty Post-Graduate Training Current Position
    Grant Fischer 2020 Pathology Harvard University Dermatopathology Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Charissa Kim 2020 Interventional Radiology Harvard University Still in residency
    Ryan Cassidy 2020 Psychiatry -Research Track Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School
    Matthew Howe 2020 Psychiatry -Research Track Brown University Psychiatrist at Harwood Center for Research, Veterans Affairs Providence Healthcare System in RI
    Meaghan Roy O'Reilly 2020 Neurology Stanford University Neuro-Oncology Fellow at Stanford
    Marimar De la Cruz Bonilla 2020 Pediatrics Baylor Pediatrician Scientist Program Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital
    Vincent Bernard 2020 Radiation Oncology UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center Still in residency
    Maureen Aliru 2020 Radiation Oncology UT Southwestern Still in residency
    Neima Briggs 2019 Internal Medicine PSTP Yale University  Clinical Fellow in Infectious Diseases at Yale School of Medicine
    Pushan R. Dasgupta 2019 Neurology Dell Seton Medical Center at UT Austin Neuro-Oncology Fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Ted Koellhoffer 2019 Diagnostic Radiology  UC San Diego Research Chief Resident in the NIH T32 Clinician-Scientist Radiology Residency Program at UC San Diego Health
    Sarah Wu 2019 Pathology Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Associate Pathologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital; Instructor at Harvard Medical School 

    Alejandro Villar-Prados 2019 Internal Medicine, Translational Investigator Program Stanford University  Fellow in Hematology-Oncology at Stanford University
    Arianexys Aquino 2018 Pediatrics Baylor Pediatrician Scientist Program Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital
    Ryan Fortune 2018 Family Medicine UT Houston Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine at UTHealth San Antonio
    Amanda Herrmann 2018 Pathology UT Houston Fellow in Blood Bank/ Transfusion Medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital
    Mehmet Cihan Kadipasoglu 2018 Neurology Houston Methodist  Still in residency
    Courtney Olsen 2018 General Surgery Stanford University/SASS General Surgeon in Texas
    Sahily Reyes 2018 Neurology University of Pennsylvania Instructor in Vascular Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania
    David Savage 2018 Internal Medicine Cleveland Clinic/Clinical Education Track Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine and Sarcomas and Bone Cancer at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center
    Charles Beaman 2017 Neurology Columbia University Medical Center Neuro-Interventional Physician at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
    Andrew Peters 2017 Internal Medicine MedStar Washington Hospital Center Postdoctoral Fellow at UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School
    Kemly Philip-Pandya 2017 Internal Medicine TIRR/UTHealth Houston Assistant Professor, Interventional Pain, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston 
    Rocio Rivera Valentin 2017 Pediatrics University Pediatric Hospital Clinical Research Assistant Professor in Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Division of Clinical and Translational Cancer Research, at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Puerto Rico
    Daniel Calame 2016 Pediatric Neurology Baylor College of Medicine Instructor, Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Neurosciences at Baylor College of Medicine
    Vida Chitsazzadeh 2016 Dermatology UT-Houston Dermatologist at Kelsey- Seybold Clinic
    Nicholas Parchim 2016 Emergency Medicine University of New Mexico Assistant Professor, Emergency/ Critical Care Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
    Adam Wolfe 2016 Radiation Oncology Ohio State Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
    Paloma Monroig-Bosque 2016 Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Houston Methodist Hospital Breast and Gynecological Pathologist, Medical Faculty at Hato Rey Pathology
    Ramon Flores-Gonzalez  2016 Neurology University of Miami -Jackson Memorial Hospital Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology at University of Miami Health System
    Henry Wu 2015 Anesthesiology University of Arizona Physician in Pain Management, Banner Health- Arizona
    David Rushworth 2015 Neurology Baylor College of Medicine Neurologist, Four Corners Center for Neurology Specialty and Four Corners Clinical Research Institute
    Chris Conner 2015 Neurosurgery UT Houston Assistant Professor, Director of Functional Neurosurgery, University of Connecticut Health Center
    Brandon Brown 2014 Family Medicine Family Health Centers of San Diego Family Practice Physician at Family Health Centers of San Diego
    Javier Figueroa 2014 Neurosurgery Barrow Neurological Institute Neurosurgeon, Spine Specialist, at Texas Brain & Spine Concierge
    Thanh-Thuy Le 2014 Anesthesiology UT Houston Anesthesiologist at Noble Anesthesia Partners in Houston
    Nahir Cortes-Santiago 2014 Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Baylor College of Medicine Assistant Professor of Pediatric Pathology and Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital
    Amy Reid 2013 Internal Medicine University of Chicago  
    Richard Wu 2013 Internal Medicine UT Southwestern Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Rene Colorado 2012 Neurology Mass. Gen. Brigham & Womens Vascular Neurologist, Medical Director for the Stroke Center at Salinas Valley Health
    Audrey Nath 2012 Pediatric Neurology Children's Hospital, Boston Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at UT Medical Branch Galveston; Clinical Trial Neurologist Sub-Investigator at
    Mike Ozawa 2012 Pathology Stanford University Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine; Medical Director for Laboratory Services at Stanford Cancer Center South Bay; Director of the Surgical Pathology Fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine
    Chirag Patel 2012 Neurology UCLA Medical Center Assistant Professor, Neuro-Oncology and McNair Scholar at MD Anderson Cancer Center
    David Reynoso 2012 Internal Medicine Baylor College of Medicine
    Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases; Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program; Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program at UT Medical Branch in Galveston
    Katrina Salazar 2012 Pathology Vanderbilt Pathologist at CHRISTUS Hospital Corpus Christi; Pathology Associates of Corpus Christi
    Shiraj Sen 2012 Internal Medicine UT Southwestern Phase 1 Investigator, Director of Clinical Research at NEXT Oncology - Dallas; Medical Oncologist at Texas Oncology
    Debra Smith 2012 Pathology UT Southwestern  
    Kerry Welsh 2012 Clinical Pathology UT Houston Branch Chief, CBER/OBPV/DPV, at the FDA
    Suzanne Chan 2011 Internal Medicine Barnes-Jewish Hospital Gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School
    Jennifer Hsing Choe 2011 Internal Medicine Baylor College of Medicine Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Roxanna Irani 2011 Obstetrics-Gynecology Drexel University Assistant Professor, OB-GYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine, and Ambulatory Executive Medical Director for Women's Health at University of California San Francisco
    Youngsin Jessica Jung 2011 Neurology Mayo Graduate School of Medicine (Rochester) Associate Medical Director, Global Medical Safety, Biogen
    Pavel Levin 2011 Internal Medicine UT Southwestern Medical Oncologist at Texas Oncology
    Daniel Schneider 2011 Internal Medicine U Michigan, Ann Arbor Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan
  • 2001-2010
    Name MD/PhD Received Specialty Post-Graduate Training Current Position
    Yen-Michael Hsu 2010 Pathology Washington University Associate Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Director, Immunologic Monitoring & Cellular Products Laboratory; Director, UPMC Adult HSC Laboratory
    Emily Jen 2010 Pediatrics University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston U.S. Food and Drug Agency
    John C. McAuliffe 2009 General Surgery University of Alabama Medical Center Attending Surgeon, Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Associate Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; 
    Clinical Member, Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis Program, at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein Cancer Center
    Amir Mohsenin 2009 Ophthalmology Yale New Haven Hospital Vitreoretinal Surgeon at Mann Eye Institute
    Krishna Reddy 2008/2007 Radiation Oncology University of Colorado Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, at University of Kansas Medical Center
    Jennifer J. O’Brien 2007/2006 Pathology Tufts New England Medical Center Director of Transfusion Medicine at Ochsner Health
    Adriano N. Salicru 2007 Internal Medicine University of North Carolina Allergist/Clinical Immunologist in Maryland
    George K. Wang 2007 Internal Medicine Mount Sinai Medical Center Emergency Medicine Physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Ramal Weragoda 2007 Internal Medicine UT Houston Cardiologist in Georgia
    Christopher R. Wilson 2007 Internal Medicine - Cardiology Yale New Haven Hospital Cardiologist in Nevada
    Behrang Amini 2006/2005 Radiology Tufts Medical Center Associate Professor, Department of Musculoskeletal Imaging, at MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Sonja Blum 2006 Neurology Columbia University Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine
    Ilyssa Gordon 2006 Pathology University of Chicago Associate Professor of Pathology at Cleveland Clinic
    Raegan D. Hunt 2006 Pediatrics Johns Hopkins Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics at Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
    Gregory Aune 2005 Pediatrics Johns Hopkins Associate Professor of Pediatrics and University Chair for Cancer Survivorship in Children at UTHealth San Antonio
    Laurel Fohn 2005 Pathology Vanderbilt University Associate Professor of Biology at Angelo State University
    Travis Hollmann 2005 Pathology Brigham & Women’s Hospital Scientific Director - Translational Medicine at Bristol Myers Squibb
    Suzanna Martin 2005 Pediatrics Duke University Attending Physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine in Maryland
    Susan Y. Ritter 2005 Internal Medicine Brigham & Women’s Hospital
    Associate Medical Director of the Brigham and Women's Arthritis Center; Instructor in Rheumatology at Harvard Medical School
    Khalid Hanafy 2004 Internal Medicine; Neurology UT Southwestern; UT Houston Professor of Neurology, Director of the Center for Neuroinflammation, Director of Research for the Cooper Neurologic Institute at Cooper Medical School at Rowan University
    Claudia Vidal 2004 Ob/Gyn; Pathology Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Mount Sinai School of Medicine Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Dermatology and Dermatopathologist at Indiana University School of Medicine
    Roshni Kandyil 2001/2003 Medicine/Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine Allergist and Immunologist in Texas
    Robert Orth 2003 Radiology UC San Diego  Associate Professor of Radiology at Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
    Huy M. Phan 2003 Internal Medicine University of Arizona Medical Center Cardiologist in Arizona
    Lisa Y. Armitige 1998/2002 Medicine/Pediatrics UT Houston Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Tyler; Co-Medical Director at the Heartland National TB Center in San Antonio
    Yiu-Keung (James) Lau 1998/2002 Internal Medicine UT Houston Senior Medical Director of Early Clinical Development, Oncology at AstraZeneca
    Manu V. Chakravarthy 2001 Internal Medicine Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Chief Scientific & Medical Officer at Carmot Therapeutics, Inc.
    Michael A. Davies 2001 Internal Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Professor and Chairman, Melanoma Medical Oncology at MDACC
    Timothy W. King 2001 Plastic Surgery New York University School of Medicine Professor and Division Director, Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine

  • 1991-2000
    Name MD/PhD Received Specialty Post-Graduate Training Current Position
    Sandeep K. Agarwal 2000 Internal Medicine Mass. Gen. Brigham & Womens Associate Professor, Division of Immunology, Allergy & Rheumatology at Baylor College of Medicine
    Larry Anderson 2000 Internal Medicine Mayo Graduate School of Medicine (Rochester) Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology, Hematologic Malignancies & Cellular Therapy Program; UT Southwestern Medical Center, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Mimi Cho 2000 Dermatology University of Minnesota Dermatologist in Minnesota
    Osvaldo Gaytan 1998/2000 Psychiatry Emory University Psychiatrist in El Paso, TX
    John Su 2000 Pediatrics Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Acting Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control's Immunization Safety Office
    Tse Kuan Yu 2000 Radiation Oncology MD Anderson Cancer Center Radiation Oncologist at Houston Precision Cancer Center, Memorial Hermann Hospital
    David Fenyes 1998/1999 Radiology UT Southwestern Diagnostic Radiologist in North Texas
    Matthew Lewin 1999 Emergency Medicine UC San Francisco Director, Center for Exploration and Travel Health, California Academy of Sciences
    Keith S. Garcia 1997/1998 Psychiatry Washington University Medical Director and CEO of Comprehensive Mental Health
    Stephen J. Kolb 1998 Medicine and Neurology Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania Professor, Department of Neurology, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine at Ohio State University College of Medicine
    Christine Tock 1998 Internal Medicine; Dermatology University Health Center, Pittsburgh; NIH Clinical Center Dermatologist in Wisconsin
    Brian Tseng 1998

    Pediatrics

    Child Neurology

    University of Colorado

    University of California - San Francisco

    Chief Scientific Officer at The POLG Foundation; Park medic at Rocky Mountain National Park, Dept of Interior
    Darrin Beaupre 1997 Internal Medicine Jackson Memorial Hospital Chief Medical Officer at IDEAYA Biosciences
    Alan Biddinger 1997 Orthopedic Surgery William Beaumont Hospital Orthopedic Surgeon in Michigan
    Shao-Chun Chang 1997 Medical Oncology Washington University Chief Medical Officer at Launch Therapeutics
    Jeffrey Deyo 1997 Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine Medical Director at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Baton Rouge Affiliate Clinic
    Keith Ligon 1997/1996 Pathology Brigham & Women's Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School; Chief of Neuropathology at Brigham & Women's Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute
    Michael Haberecht 1996 Psychiatry Stanford University Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine
    Stephen Hewitt 1996/1995 Pathology National Institutes of Health Head, Experimental Pathology Laboratory,
    Laboratory Director, CLIA Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Frederick National Laboratory; Captain, USPHS, Medical Officer, Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
    Faye Johnson 1996 Medical Oncology UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Professor, Thoracic, Head & Neck Medical Oncology at MDACC
    Robert Scott 1992/1995 Internal Medicine UC San Diego Medical Center Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplantation at Scott & White Medical Center-Heart and Vascular Institute; Associate Professor of Cardiology at Texas A&M Health Science Center
    Jonathan Trent 1995 Internal Medicine UT Houston Professor, Division of Medical Oncology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
    Arthur Bergh 1993/1994 Anesthesiology Duke University Anesthesiologist in Virginia
    Lydia Bishop 1992/1994 Pediatrics Vanderbilt University
    Russell Broaddus 1994 Pathology Baylor College of Medicine Professor and Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Univ. of North Carolina School of Medicine
    Huan Giap 1994 Radiation Oncology Loma Linda University Chief Medical Officer at Advanced Radiation Technologies; Clinical Professor (Adjunct) at University of Illinois College of Medicine
    Sara Westgate 1994 Neurology Baylor College of Medicine Neurologist in Austin, TX
    Carolyn Preston Cannon 1993 Pediatrics Children’s Hospital of Boston Associate Professor, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology at the Texas A&M School of Medicine
    Rekha Halligan 1993 Internal Medicine; Nephrology UT Houston; Harvard Medical School Medical Director of Home & Community Care Transitions at OPTUM
    Jeffrey Perkins 1993 Internal Medicine Johns Hopkins Rheumatologist and Chief Executive Officer at the Colorado Center for Arthritis and Osteoporosis
    John Casada 1992 Psychiatry University of Michigan Associate Professor of Psychology at Abilene Christian University
    Kerry Strong Russell 1992 Internal Medicine Yale New Haven Hospital Independent Consultant for Drug Development
    William Loudon 1988/1991 Neurosurgery Medical College of Virginia Bionaut Labs, Vice President, Neurological Sciences Pediatric Neurosurgery Children's Hospital Orange County
    Claudia Orengo-Rao 1991 Psychiatry Baylor College of Medicine Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine
    Raymond Russell 1991 Internal Medicine/Cardiology Yale University School of Medicine Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, at Brown University 
    Filemon Tan 1990/1991 Internal Medicine UT Houston Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School
    James Scott Williams 1990/1991 Radiology UT Houston Diagnostic and Vascular Interventional Radiologist at University of Pittsburgh Medical College

  • 1984-1990
    Name MD/PhD Received Specialty Post-Graduate Training Current Position
    Kimberly Dunn 1990 Internal Medicine UT Houston Founder and President of HealthQuilt; President of The Schull Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth Houston
    Lisa Hostetler 1990/1988 Dermatology University Of Pennsylvania Dermatologist in Pennsylvania
    Laura Worth 1990 Pediatrics UT Houston Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Mack Rachal 1989 Dermatology Yale University School of Medicine Dermatologist in Texas
    Ennio A. Chiocca 1988 Neurosurgery Massachusetts General Hospital Neurosurgeon-in-Chief and Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Lee Riley 1986 General Surgery UT Houston Medical Director of Cancer and Surgical Oncologist at St. Luke's Hospital in PA; Owner, Cancer Immunotherapies, LLC
    James Smith 1986 Postdoctoral Fellowship Cleveland Clinic
    Timothy Boone 1985 Urology UT Southwestern Professor in the Urology Department, Chief Education Officer at the Houston Methodist Academic Institute; Associate Dean and Clinical Professor of Urology at Texas A&M College of Medicine
    Robert Kilbourn 1984 Internal Medicine Duke University Oncologist in Colorado