Current Residents

PGY-1

Andrew B. Barboza, M.D.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - McGovern Medical School

Biography:
Dr. Barboza was born in and adopted from Germany, but grew up in Mansfield, Texas, just outside Arlington. During his upbringing, Dr. Barboza was classically trained in vocal and piano performance, and continued his training with a minor in music at BYU, before ultimately deciding to pursue a career in medicine. During his undergraduate training, Dr. Barboza served a two-year church mission in Germany and later completed internships in Berlin, where he taught refugee children German and English, as well as in Latvia where he shadowed a chronic pain specialist. Dr. Barboza has completed research focusing on multi-drug resistent Staph Aureus, patient outcomes when utilizing interpretation services, and Texas organ donation trends, particularly donations after cardiovascular death. Dr. Barboza has presented at both regional and national medical conferences, including the annual American Urological Association Conference in 2024. Dr. Barboza's interests in residency include purusing a Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship and completing Quality Improvement projects focusing on improving patient outcomes and enchancing hospital efficiency. When Dr. Barboza is not working, he spends his free time with his wife, Katie, and their two children.

Nicholas A. Bohannon, M.D.
University of Nebraska College of Medicine

Biography:
Dr. Bohannon is originally from Northeast Nebraska and received both of his current degrees from the University of Nebraska system. Over the past several years he has been integrally involved in a variety of organized medicine roles and plans to continue his advocacy work during residency as it relates to physician reimbursement and scope of practice policy. Dr. Bohannon has served in a myriad of leadership positions including as the Chair of the UNMC Chapter of the American Medical Association (AMA), Regional Delegate to the AMA’s House of Delegates for the Medical Student Section (MSS), and Policy Co-Chair of the AMA MSS Committee on Scientific Issues. Additionally, he has led and co-authored a number of scientific publications and national AMA policies. 

Tanner D. Brinley, D.O.
Rocky Vista University - Southern Utah

Biography:
Dr. Brinley grew up internationally living in England, Japan, Holland, Singapore, Canada and Spain. He graduated from Brigham Young University and then completed medical school at Rocky Vista University in southern Utah finishing with Sigma Sigma Phi honors. During that time he published on cancer research and held a number of leadership positions teaching on financial literacy in medicine.

Evan C. Catton, M.D.
Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University 

Biography:
Dr. Catton is originally from Galveston, Texas and has split his life between Texas and Ohio. He obtained his Bachelor's of Science in Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University with a specialization in medical device design and cell and tissue engineering. He obtained his MD degree in Fort Worth, TX at Texas Christian University where he obtained a reserach distinction while also serving in as class senator, founder of Healthreference.org, and a director of the 501c3 Dayna's Footprints. Evan has presented his reasearch at multiple national conferences such as the American Society of Hematology and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Steven Giang, D.O.
Kansas City University

Biography:
Dr. Giang is from Dallas, Texas and has spent most of his life in the DFW area. He completed his bachelor's degree at The University of Texas at Dallas and went on to obtain a master's in Biomedical Sciences at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. He completed medical school at Kansas City University in Missouri. During medical school, he held leadership positions in various organizations including the Anesthesia Interest Club as well as the KCU-Joplin chapter of APAMSA, and gradauted as a member of SSP.  

Alexander Pop, M.D.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston - John Sealy School of Medicine 

Biography:
Dr. Pop was born in Houston Texas, shortly after his immigrant parents fled the oppression of the Romanian communist regime. He was raised in Houston and spent most summers with grandparents in the forests of Transylvania. Dr. Pop received his bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Houston Christian University, graduating summa cum laude. During his studies at the University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine, he helped establish and lead the simulation society as their education chair. Motivated by this interest in simulation training, he designed a VR program to educate medical students and residents on central line techniques in virtual environments. The resulting recognition from his oral and poster presentations at various national anesthesia conferences led to his current role as a consultant for the Harvard High Acuity Low Occurrence (HALO) VR initiative. Dr. Pop currently also serves as vice president on the board of directors for the non-profit Lone Star Survival, a tourniquet training program he co-founded in 2018. Presently, medical students and residents conduct bystander training at more than 50 public venues across Texas. Moreover, Dr. Pop brings two years of experience from the biopharmaceutical industry, having worked as a manufacturing supervisor in the production of personalized plasmid immunotherapy targeting patient-specific cancer neoantigens.