- Laura E. Garcia, MD, FACP
- Program Director / SOM Assistant Professor
Dr. Garcia attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency training and her fourth chief resident position at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), Regional Academic Health Center Lower Rio Grande Valley. She completed fellowship training in geriatrics at UTHSCSA along with her advanced geriatric research fellow year. Dr. Garcia is board certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine.
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- Phone:
- (956) 296-1574
Program Leadership
Administrative
- Carlos T. Ramos, Jr., MD, FACP
- Associate Program Director / SOM Assistant Professor
Dr. Ramos is a local graduate of the UTHSCSA RAHC/UTRGV IM at the VBMC residency program and feels privileged to be part of the academic faculty of the same program since graduation in 2016. He completed medical school at UTMB, Galveston as a scholar in Aerospace Medicine in 2013. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine. Dr. Ramos actively supervises residents in the Valley Baptist Medical Center inpatient hospitalist service, as well as in continuity and ambulatory clinics at Su Clinica and Rio Grande State Center in Harlingen. He is a champion of Evidence-Based Medicine and Quality Improvement and supervises resident and medical student academic projects, many of which get presented at national and state conferences among other venues. Dr. Ramos also forms part of the mentor program which helps with academic and clinical resident and medical student development. He continues to update and improve the academic curriculum including implementation of point-of-care ultrasonography.
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- Phone:
- (956) 296-1611
- Garry C. Souffrant, MD, FACP
- Continuity Clinic Director / Core Faculty / SOM Associate Professor
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- Phone:
- (956) 296-1492
Faculty
- Javier Cabello Garza, MD
- Critical Care Educational Coordinator / SOM Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Jean Luis Cabrera, MD
- Geriatrics Educational Coordinator / SOM Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Jose E. Campo Maldonado, MD, FACP
- Infectious Disease Educational Coordinator / SOM Assistant Professor
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- Phone:
- (956) 296-1572
- Jorge Flores, MD
- Nephrology Educational Coordinator / SOM Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Alfredo Garcia, MD
- Endocrinology Educational Coordinator / SOM Clinical Associate Professor
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- Charles F. Mild, MD, FACC, FSCAI
- Cardiology Educational Coordinator / SOM Clinical Associate Professor
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- Jason Philips, MD
- Gastroenterology Educational Coordinator / SOM Clinical Associate Professor
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- Jairo Rodriguez, MD
- Pulmonary Educational Coordinator / SOM Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Nabeel Sarhill, MD
- Hematology/Oncology Educational Coordinator / SOM Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Muhammad Shamim, MD
- Rheumatology Educational Coordinator / SOM Clinical Assistant Professor
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