New Personnel Join UTHSCT

TYLER — A new medical director of emergency medicine, an interventional cardiologist, and an internal medicine physician have joined The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. They are Paul B. Roberts, MD; Sridevi Pitta, MD; and Riad Kesiry, MD, MSBS.

Dr. Roberts returns to UTHSCT as medical director of emergency medicine after spending seven years as an emergency physician with Texas Health Resources in the Dallas area. He completed his family medicine residency at UTHSCT and then held positions as an emergency medicine physician and medical director of emergency services at UTHSCT for 11 years. Dr. Pitta, an assistant professor of medicine, joins UTHSCT after two years in private practice as an interventional cardiologist in San Antonio. Dr. Kesiry, an assistant professor of medicine, comes to UTHSCT after serving as chief of staff at Morton General Hospital in Morton, Wash. He is board certified in internal medicine.