Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital is pleased to welcome general surgeon Katherine Baxter, M.D., to Houston Methodist Surgical Associates. Baxter will work alongside Timothy Oppermann, M.D., Michael Yaakovian, M.D., and Ashish Saharia, M.D. on the Houston Methodist Sugar Land campus in Medical Office Building 3, Suite 450. Baxter earned her medical degree from Emory University in Atlanta, where she also completed a general surgery residency. During her residency, she served as a research fellow at...

Houston Methodist is pleased to welcome board-certified otolaryngologist (ENT) Brian Wang, M.D., M.P.H, to Houston Methodist ENT Specialists at Sugar. Wang comes to Houston Methodist from Houston Ear, Nose, Throat & Allergy Clinic in Houston, where he has been practicing for more than a decade. He earned his medical degree at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. He completed a residency in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at University of Texas...

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital is pleased to welcome fellowship-trained hematologist oncologist Patrick E. Prath, M.D., to Houston Methodist Oncology Partners at Sugar Land. Dr. Prath is a graduate of University of Kansas. He completed his residency in internal medicine at University of Kansas Medical Center. Following his residency, Dr. Prath completed a hematology-oncology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. “I am thrilled to join Houston Methodist Sugar Land and work alongside the team at...

Houston Methodist is pleased to welcome board-certified surgeon Michelle O’Shea, M.D., to its medical staff. She joins Sandra Templeton, M.D., at Houston Methodist Breast Surgery Partners at Sugar Land. O’Shea comes to Houston Methodist from Hackensack Meridian Health’s Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair, N.J., where she served as medical director of breast services and as a member of the hospital’s cancer committee. She earned her medical degree at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of...

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital has named Wamda Ahmed, M.D., as medical director of comprehensive stroke.   Ahmed is a board-certified neurologist with a specialization in neurocritical care. She will also serve as a neurohospitalist at Houston Methodist Sugar Land working directly with inpatient stroke patients.   “Houston Methodist Sugar Land has made tremendous strides in its stroke program, recently earning the American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award,” said...

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital is pleased to welcome board-certified interventional cardiologist, Rasi Wickramasinghe, M.D., who joins Toussaint Smith, M.D., and Sherman Tang, M.D., at Houston Methodist Cardiology Associates in Sugar Land. Wickramasinghe earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, followed by his medical degree and PhD from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he also completed his residency in internal medicine at the Osler Medical Service of Johns Hopkins Hospital....

Houston Methodist is pleased to welcome board-certified colorectal surgeon Lisa Haubert, M.D., to its medical staff. She joins Ali Mahmood, M.D., at Houston Methodist Surgical Associates at Sugar Land.   Haubert earned her medical degree and completed a general surgery residency at The Ohio State University College of Medicine & Public Health in Columbus. She completed a fellowship in colorectal surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston.   She specializes in surgery and minimally...

Houston Methodist Primary Care Group is pleased to announce Johneca Broussard, D.O., is welcoming patients at the Riverstone practice, located at 18717 S. University Blvd., Suite 105, Sugar Land, Texas 77479. Broussard is a board-certified family physician providing preventive, chronic, and acute care for adult men and women. Her clinical expertise includes complete physicals, health screenings, routine immunizations, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes management, thyroid concerns, rash and skin problems, men health, women’s health,...

Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital is pleased to welcome Margaret Umah, M.D., board-certified family medicine physician. Umah will begin seeing patients at the Houston Methodist Primary Care Group practice located on the hospital’s campus at 16605 Southwest Fwy., Medical Office Building 3, Suite 400, Sugar Land, TX 77479. She specializes in men’s and women’s health issues, adolescent health, preventive medicine, chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and cholesterol disorders, and common illnesses and...

UT System Chancellor James B. Milliken announced that Ben Raimer, M.D., a physician-leader whose service to the Galveston community and the state of Texas has spanned five decades, has been appointed interim president of UT Medical Branch.   Raimer will take the reins from David Callender, M.D., who announced that he would be stepping down as UTMB president to become president and CEO of the Memorial Hermann Health System.   Raimer will serve as interim...