Specialized Pediatric Provider Team available at ALL TIMES of the day and night Our mission is to provide unsurpassed continuity of care, individualized treatment and a family-centered recovery. The Division of Inpatient Pediatrics of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio provides hospitalist services for the Janey Briscoe Children’s Center. These hospitalists are specially trained pediatricians with extensive knowledge and experience related to caring for children while in the hospital. They lead the team caring for each child on our unit and provide the day-to-day management of our patients, in coordination with a team of pediatric subspecialists. Inpatient hospitalists also partner with primary care physicians to successfully treat patients and discharge them back into the care of their regular pediatricians. Hospitalists maintain direct communication with a patient’s primary care provider about their stay in the hospital. Academic Physicians on the leading edge of medicine. Members of the Division of Inpatient Pediatrics are not only Board Certified hospitalists, but premier academic physicians researching, publishing and educating at the forefront of the field of pediatric hospital medicine. The Janey Briscoe hospitalist team includes nationally recognized physicians who have been invited speakers at the American Academy of Pediatrics’ annual meetings and active researchers and reviewers for the most widely read pediatric journals, including Pediatrics and the Journal of Pediatrics and Hospital Medicine. Janey Briscoe Children’s Center Pediatric Hospitalists Dr. Shawn Ralston, division chief and associate professor of pediatrics, is chairperson of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ section on hospital medicine subcommittee on evidence-based medicine. Dr. Raiston is actively involved in national quality improvement initiatives, as well as research on pediatric respiratory disorders. Dr. Noemi Adame, assistant professor of pediatrics, was recently elected to the prestigious Educational Scholars Program of the Academic Pediatric Association. She is also the medical director for the Pediatric Transition Unit, (PTU). Dr. Michelle Arandes, assistant professor of pediatrics, is associate program director for the UT Pediatric Residency Program and serves in a national leadership role within the Society of Hospital Medicine, the largest organization of hospitalists in the nation. Dr. Vanessa Hill, assistant professor of pediatrics, is an active clinical researcher in children’s asthma and associated airway disorders. She recently coauthored the ‘Asthma Update’ for Pediatrics in Review. Dr. Jon Courand, associate professor of pediatrics, is the pediatric residency director for the UT Pediatric Residency Program and associate chairman for clinical operations in the Department of Pediatrics, and the Medical Director of the Janey Briscoe Children’s Center. Dr. Sandra Ehlers, associate professor of pediatrics, was recently awarded the UT Health Science Center’s Presidential Clinical Excellence Award for her outstanding work with residents and medical students. Dr. Ahn Dihn, Medical Director for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) | 
