Dell Medical School Pediatrics Chair Steven Abrams.
AUSTIN, Texas - A renowned pediatrician for more than three decades and a father for nearly as long, Dr. Steven Abrams nevertheless sometimes wanders through a grocery store's infant formula aisle, observing the imposing set of options - and, occasionally, the intimidated grown-ups shopping there - "just so I can see what new parents must face and advocate for them." The veteran physician and researcher is bringing that expertise and concern for children and parents to The University of Texas at Austin, where he will serve as inaugural chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Dell Medical School. The neonatologist will also be a professor of pediatrics at the medical school, which will welcome its first class of students in July 2016. "We are building this medical school, in part, around innovations that will help train doctors to work in multidisciplinary teams and treat patients as people with real needs, lives and loved ones - not just carriers of health problems," said Dr. Clay Johnston, the medical school's dean. "Steve brings a huge amount of experience, empathy and creativity to the effort." Abrams was formerly a neonatologist at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston - which boasts the nation's second-highest-rated pediatric neonatology program, according to U.S. News & World Report. He was also a professor of pediatrics, director of the fellowship program in neonatal-perinatal medicine, and medical director of the Neonatal Nutrition Program at Baylor College of Medicine.
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