Doc Talk

An Introduction to Infections, Immunity, and Immunizations

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She graduated from Rice University in 1977 and received her medical degree in 1982 from the University of Texas McGovern Medical School, where she also completed her Pediatrics residency in 1985.

She worked as a general pediatrician in Pasadena, TX, from 1985 to 1999. During that time, vaccination rates were low, as many families had limited time to bring children in for checkups due to low-paying jobs and typically only came in for infant vaccinations or required school-entry immunizations. This often resulted in missed vaccinations between 12 and 18 months.

She devoted those years to removing barriers to vaccination—first within her own practice and then across the Pediatrics department at Kelsey-Seybold. She later became Managing Physician for Immunization Practices and Travel Medicine, serving in that role from 2001 to 2021.

Throughout her career, she cared for many patients with meningitis, epiglottitis, orbital and buccal cellulitis, measles, influenza, varicella, hepatitis A, and hepatitis B—conditions that are uncommon today and largely preventable through vaccination.

She practiced hospital medicine from 1999 to 2024, with an emphasis on newborn care and breastfeeding medicine. Now retired from Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, she remains active in youth and adult education, focusing not only on vaccines but also on service within the Bahá’í community, to which she has belonged since 1974.

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