Ami Waters, M.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor Schools Medical School Departments Pediatrics | Internal Medicine | Public Health You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Dr. Ami Waters is an Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Physician. She received her undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Vanderbilt University and then returned to Texas for her medical degree at UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. She completed her training in Internal Medicine-Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Waters pursued further training in Global Health from 2014-2016 through the UCSF Global Health Hospitalist/ Health Equity, Action and Leadership (HEAL) fellowship. As a part of this fellowship, she spent 6 months of each year working in rural Liberia with Last Mile Health, a non-governmental organization dedicated to ensuring health access to those in remote communities. Dr. Waters joined faculty in September 2016. She treats patients of all ages as a hospitalist at both Parkland and Children’s Medical Center Dallas. In addition, Dr. Waters continues to work with Last Mile Health as Co-Medical Director, spending 6 months a year in Liberia. Her interests include global health, medical education, population health, advocacy and transitions of care. In her free time, she likes to cook, watch college football (Gig’Em!Go Dores!), and travel. Education Graduate School Berkeley School of Public Health 2015 Medical School University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (2010) Internship Baylor College of Medicine (2011), Internal Medicine & Pediatrics Residency Baylor College of Medicine (2014), Internal Medicine & Pediatrics Fellowship UCSF Medical Center (2016), Global Health Research Interest Clinical care of underserved Global health Medical education Publications Transfusion-Transmitted Malaria: Two Pediatric Cases from the United States and Their Relevance in an Increasingly Globalized World Stubbs LA, Price M, Noland D, Fuchs J, Filkins L, McElvania E, Luu HS, Sebert M, Waters A, Hsiang MS Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 2021 Dec 10 1092-1095 Measuring knowledge of community health workers at the lastmile in Liberia: Feasibility and results of clinical vignette assessments Downey J, Hmckenna A, Flomomendin S, Waters A, Dunbar N, Tehmeh LG, Ewhite E, Siedner MJ, Panjabi R, Kraemer JD, Kenny A, Ly EJ, Bass J, Huang KN, Khan MS, Uchtmann N, Agarwal A, Hirschhorna LR Global Health Science and Practice 2021 Mar 16 S111-S121 A community health worker intervention to increase childhood disease treatment coverage in rural Liberia: A controlled before-and-after evaluation White EE, Downey J, Sathananthan V, Kanjee Z, Kenny A, Waters A, Rabinowich J, Raghavan M, Dorr L, Halder A, Nyumah J, Duokie D, Boima T, Panjabi R, Siedner MJ, Kraemer JD American journal of public health 2018 Sep 108 1252-1259 Ebola virus disease Waters A, Le PV 2018 Jan 320-321 Facility-Based Delivery during the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic in Rural Liberia: Analysis from a Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Household Survey Ly J, Sathananthan V, Griffiths T, Kanjee Z, Kenny A, Gordon N, Basu G, Battistoli D, Dorr L, Lorenzen B, Thomson DR, Waters A, Moore UG, Roberts R, Smith WL, Siedner MJ, Kraemer JD PLoS Medicine 2016 Aug 13 The role of hospitalists in the ebola response in the united states and abroad Waters A, Wu E, Shamasunder S, Le P Journal of hospital medicine 2015 Jan 10 50-53 Occult serious bacterial infection in infants younger than 60 to 90 days with bronchiolitis: A systematic review Ralston S, Hill V, Waters A Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 2011 Oct 165 951-956 Results 1-7 of 7 1 Honors & Awards Baylor College of Medicine Med-Peds Outstanding Graduating Clinic Resident Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society Paul Brand Scholar, International Trip to Vellore India Professional Associations/Affiliations American Board of Pediatrics
