Houston Methodist Primary Care Group is pleased to welcome Ali Sawal, D.O.. Sawal joins Asisat Ope, M.D., at the Brooks Street practice in Sugar Land. Sawal is a family physician providing preventive, chronic, and acute care to all his patients. His clinical expertise includes health screenings, men’s health, complete physicals as well as musculoskeletal and sports injuries. Sawal received his medical degree from The College of Osteopathic Medicine at William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi,...

Houston Methodist Primary Care Group is pleased to welcome Monique Au, M.D., and Pamela M. Ayala, M.D., who will be serving patients in Fort Bend County. Au is a board-certified family medicine physician providing acute and chronic care to patients of all ages. Au graduated from Texas A&M College of Medicine in Bryan, Texas and completed her family medicine residency at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Round Rock, Texas. Au is committed to...

Moritz C. Wyler von Ballmoos, M.D., Ph.D., director of robotic cardiac and vascular surgery for the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, is joining Marvin D. Atkins Jr., M.D., Charlie Cheng, M.D., and Tony Lu, M.D. with Houston Methodist Cardiovascular Surgery Associates at Sugar Land where he will focus on advanced, specialized cardiovascular surgery. Wyler von Ballmoos has a distinguished background as a surgeon and clinical investigator. He earned his medical degree and Ph.D....

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...