Thien-An D Nguyen , MD

Francisco Fuentes, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained cardiovascular disease specialist treating patients with heart-related conditions. He’s the T.R. & M.O. Levy Endow Professorship in Cardiology Research and director of the cardiac rehabilitation program and the cardiology fellowship program at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, underscoring his clinical and educator excellence. Fuentes is a recognized health educator and volunteer in the community. He received the Herbert L. and Margaret W. DuPont Master Clinical Teaching Award. He was named a Texas Super Doctor by Texas Monthly and Top Doctors for Women—Cardiology by H Texas Magazine. Congressman Al Green gave him a special certificate of congressional recognition for his outstanding dedication to health care, education, and community service. He was honored by the American Heart Association for his numerous contributions to cardiovascular medicine and the Hispanic community. He received the Benjy F. Brooks, MD, Award from McGovern Medical School for outstanding clinical faculty.

Susan Laing, MD, is a professor of medicine at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston). She holds the John Edward Tyson Distinguished Professorship in Cardiology. She serves as associate chief of the Division of Cardiology, the associate program director of the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program, and the director of the Echocardiography Laboratories for UTHealth Houston and Memorial Hermann Hospital-Texas Medical Center. Laing’s clinical interests include women’s health, preventive cardiology, and echocardiography. Her research interests include novel ultrasound contrast agents for targeted pharmaceutic delivery, health disparities, and cardiovascular diseases in minority populations. She is a reviewer of several cardiology journals and serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention. She is a co-investigator in several grants from the National Institutes of Health, and is an active collaborator in the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort Project in Brownsville, Texas. Laing has authored and co-authored more than 50 publications and book chapters and more than 75 abstracts in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She holds one patent on a novel echogenic vehicle for clinical delivery of plasminogen activator and other fibrin-binding therapeutics to thrombi. She is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and American Society of Echocardiography. She is designated as a certified physician executive.

Dr. Todd Wilson graduated from the United States Naval Academy and then served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the Navy for six years. He left the Navy as one of the highest decorated officers in his year group to pursue a career in medicine. He attended medical school at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston (now McGovern Medical School) and then continued at the same school for both his residency in General Surgery and then fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery. Still loving the school, Houston, and the amazing Texas Medical Center, he joined the faculty of the Department of Surgery in an effort to teach others and provide the best, most state of the art care for his patients. His focus is on advanced and minimally invasive surgical therapies for disorders of the gastrointestinal system, metabolic disorders, and the abdominal wall (hernias). He is well known and respected in the surgical community, is an active participant and leader in multiple surgical societies, and has published and presented many times to the national and international community of surgeons. He is a dedicated and devoted teacher and has won numerous accolades including his personal favorite, the chief resident class of 2015, “Resident Advocate.”