Children's Physician Services of South Texas

Medical specialties and board certifications:

• Board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Medical school name/location:

• University of the West Indies – Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies

Fellowship name/location:

• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Emory University School of Medicine, Egleston Children’s Hospital at Emory – Atlanta, Georgia

Residency institution(s):

• Pediatrics: Driscoll Children’s Hospital – Corpus Christi, Texas

Professional recognition/awards:

• Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
• 2014
  Presidential Citation, Society of Critical Care Medicine
• 2013
  Presidential Citation, Society of Critical Care Medicine
• 2011
  Presidential Citation, Society of Critical Care Medicine
• 2010
• Presidential Citation, Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM)
• 2002
  Best Specialist Teaching Attending of the Year Award, Presented by the Pediatric Residents of Driscoll Children’s Hospital – Corpus Christi, Texas
• 2000
  Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP)
• 1998
  American Academy of Pediatrics, Critical Care Section, Best In-Training Research Award, Presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics – San Francisco, California
• 1996
  Corpus Christi Pediatric Society First Place Resident’s Research Award, Resident Research Competition
• Driscoll Children’s Hospital PL-III Resident of the Year for outstanding performance in Pediatrics
• 1995
  Southern Section of the American Federation of Clinical Research Trainee Research Travel Award, Presented at the Annual Meeting of Southern Section of the American Federation of Clinical Research – New Orleans, Louisiana
• 1994
  Corpus Christi Pediatric Society Third Place Resident’s Research Award
• 1987
  Honors in Community Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies (U.W.I.), Jamaica, West Indies
• 1985
  National Additional Scholarship of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago for outstanding scholastic performance in Cambridge University (UK) Advanced Level General Certificate Examinations

Language fluency:

English