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Mark W. Kline, M.D., was appointed chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and physician-in-chief of Texas Children’s Hospital effective July 1, 2009. Dr. Kline has served as head of the Section of Retrovirology in the Department of Pediatrics and chief of Texas Children’s Hospital's Retrovirology Service since 1997 and is president and founder of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) at Texas Children’s Hospital. As president of BIPAI, Dr. Kline oversaw the establishment of an ambitious program that encompasses HIV/AIDS care and treatment and health professional education and training programs in nine African countries, as well as Mexico and Romania. BIPAI now provides HIV/AIDS care and treatment to more children than any other organization worldwide. Dr. Kline received a B.A. degree (summa cum laude) in biology from Trinity University in 1979. He received his M.D. degree with Honors from Baylor College of Medicine in 1981. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in 1985, having served as chief resident for the department. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Baylor and Texas Children’s.
Dr.
Michael A. Belfort,
Michael A. Belfort,
M.D., Ph.D., is Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Obstetrician and
Gynecologist-in-Chief of Texas Children’s Hospital. A specialist in
maternal-fetal medicine and fetal intervention, Dr. Belfort has most
recently served as a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake
City, and also as the Director for Perinatal Research, Fetal Therapy
and Obstetric Telemedicine at HCA Healthcare in Nashville, TN. A
native of South Africa, Belfort received his medical degree (MBBCH)
at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South
Africa, a Doctorate in Medicine (M.D.) at the University of Cape
Town, South Africa, and his Ph.D. at the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm, Sweden. He completed two residencies in obstetrics and
gynecology (one in Cape Town and one at Baylor College of Medicine),
trained in anesthesiology in South Africa, and did his fellowship in
maternal fetal medicine at BCM.
Dr.
Charles D. Fraser,
Charles D. Fraser, M.D. is Chief of Congenital Heart Surgery and Cardiac Surgeon In-Charge at Texas Children’s Hospital, the nation’s largest pediatric hospital. His academic appointments include Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics (tenured), Baylor College of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University. Dr. Fraser holds the Donovan Chair in Congenital Heart Surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital and has joint clinical appointments at the Texas Heart Institute and The University of Texas at Houston. Dr. Fraser also serves as Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Surgery Program at the Texas Heart Institute. Dr. Fraser received a bachelor’s degree with honors in mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1980 and was a member of the Southwest Conference Champion varsity tennis team in 1977. He received his medical degree in 1984 from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. His postgraduate residency education was at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, where he specialized in general, cardiothoracic and thoracic transplant surgery.
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