Health

By LAUREN GROVER
Staff Writer

Three doctors specializing in pulmonology, internal medicine and infectious disease joined the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler this month.

Dr. Nasir Hussain, an internal medicine specialist, was hired as UTHSCT’s medical director for clinical operations and named chief quality officer for the hospital.

Dr. Hussain was an associate professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar after serving as an associate professor of medicine at the UT medical branch in Galveston for more than 12 years.

Dr. Eli Azzi, a pulmonologist, was the medical director of ICU at Milford Memorial Hospital in Milford, Del. He completed his internal medicine residency at Staten Island University Hospital in New York and his pulmonary fellowship at the State University Health Science Center at Brooklyn.

Dr. Gustavo Valero spent more than a decade working in private practice in McAllen as an infectious disease specialist. He was a clinical assistant professor at the UTHSC at San Antonio. Dr. Valero completed his residency in internal medicine at St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio.

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