David B Babitt , MD

Katrina E. McBeth, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained pediatric pulmonologist whose primary interests include asthma/reactive airway disease, paradoxical vocal fold movement disorder (vocal cord dysfunction), pulmonary complications of childhood cancer and related treatment, airway clearance, and community pulmonology. She’s also an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. McBeth is a native Houstonian who graduated from Langham Creek High School in 2002. She went on to major in Plan II at The University of Texas at Austin, graduating magna cum laude in 2006, followed by medical school at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, graduating in 2010. She quickly returned to her Houston roots, completing her pediatric residency at McGovern Medical School in 2013 and serving as chief resident until 2014. She completed a pediatric pulmonary medicine fellowship training at the medical school in 2017. McBeth met her husband, Sean, in college, and they have been married since 2007. The couple has four children: Lizzie, born in 2011, Travis, born in 2013, Poppie, born in 2016, and Crockett, born in 2018. Outside of work, McBeth’s hobbies include crafting and science experiments with her children, running (she has completed five full marathons, many half marathons, and dozens of shorter races), volunteering with the PTA, and serving as a Girl Scout troop leader.