Martha S Tzou , MD

Curtis J. Wray, MD, MS, attended the University of Louisville and received an undergraduate degree in chemistry. He received his medical degree from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 1998. Dr. Wray completed the general surgery residency program at the University of Cincinnati in 2005. While at Cincinnati, he received a NIH T32 postdoctoral research fellowship. From 2005-2008, Dr. Wray completed a surgical oncology fellowship at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. In 2008, Dr. Wray was appointed assistant professor of surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). His research interests include clinical outcomes for gastrointestinal cancers as well as cancer-related health care disparities. These research efforts have led to 58 peer-reviewed publications. This work led to a successful application and grant funding from the American Cancer Society to investigate clinical outcomes for Hepatocellular Cancer patients. In 2013, Dr. Wray was promoted to associate professor of surgery at UTHealth. He has also recently received a master’s degree in clinical research from UTHealth. Dr. Wray belongs to numerous professional organizations including the Society of Surgical Oncology, American College of Surgeons, American Association of Cancer Research, Society of University Surgeons, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Association for Academic Surgery and the American Hepatico-Pancreatico-Biliary Association. Dr. Wray has served as cancer liaison physician for Harris Health System and was recently appointed to the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. He serves on the Memorial Hermann Integrated Cancer Network and the Memorial Hermann Oncology Service Line. He is past-president of the Houston Surgical Society. Areas of clinical expertise include both open as well as minimally invasive surgery for gastric, liver, pancreas and colorectal cancers. Dr. Wray also performs robotic surgery for GI cancers. In 2018, he started a robotic pancreas surgery program at Memorial Hermann TMC. In June 2019, Dr. Wray and colleagues performed the first robotic whipple (pancreaticoduodenectomy) using the daVinci Xi at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. He also uses daVinci for pancreas, gastric, liver and bile duct and adrenal surgery.

Emily K. Robinson, MD, is a board-certified surgeon specializing in breast cancer surgery. She’s a professor in the Division of Elective General Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and director of breast surgical oncology and endocrine surgery. She’s a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). She sees patients 15 and older. Her practice philosophy is to provide understanding and compassionate care to patients and their families. She emphasizes the importance of taking the time to listen and respond to each patient’s concerns. She provides individualized care and gives patients minimally invasive surgery options featuring state-of-the-art surgical therapies and the safest techniques. She resides in Bellaire, TX, enjoys spending time with her two sons and playing golf.

Rodrigo Hasbun, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained infectious disease specialist focused on central nervous system infections, meningitis, West Nile virus, encephalitis, and other conditions. He’s a professor and Graham Faculty Fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Hasbun obtained his medical degree at the Autonomous University of Central America in 1990. He completed his internal medicine residency at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1994. He followed this with fellowship training in infectious diseases and clinical research at Yale University in 1997. During this time, he conducted research in meningitis and endocarditis that has been incorporated into national guidelines. Hasbun’s studies on meningoencephalitis have received various grants and funding. In collaboration with the University of Houston, he expanded neurocognitive studies to include other infectious diseases, such as West Nile virus infection. Additionally, as co-investigator of the R01-funded West Nile encephalitis cohort study, he has led a collaborative neurological, neuropsychological, and ophthalmological evaluation of West Nile patients with a subset of patients also undergoing electromyography and volumetric MRI. He is a co-investigator of the U24-funded National Neuro AIDS Tissue Consortium that enrolls patients at Thomas Street Health. He was also a panel member of the first health care-associated ventriculitis and meningitis guidelines in 2016 and the main author of the meningitis chapters in the main textbook of infectious diseases, “Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases,” and five chapters on UpToDate, the main online resource for clinicians.