Dr. Lindsay Sonstein is the Program Director for the IM residency program, Vice Chair of Graduate Medical Education and the Clinical Vice Chair for the department of Internal Medicine. She joined the faculty in 2008, after completing her medical school, residency and chief residency at UTMB in Galveston.

She has a passion for quality and gained training in the field of health care quality by attending MD Anderson cancer center clinical safety, effectiveness course and AAMC teach for quality program. She has presented her quality work locally and regionally and has won awards for her work at the UT System Building Bridges conference as well as received funding from the UT system for development of a Train the Trainer Education model for QI.

Her interests and current projects focus on quality of care, patient satisfaction, innovative health delivery systems and residency education. She is a member of Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine and has been an active member of the program planning committee since 2018. Additionally, she is a national member of the PD advisory board for NEJM knowledge +. She has won numerous teaching and educational awards and was inducted as a member of the UTMB Academy of Master Teachers in September 2012 and UTMB Academy of Master clinicians in 2018.

She currently attends on the wards in Jennie Sealy Hospital, is a faculty preceptor, and sees private patients on Daniels Team.

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Dr. Teran joined the Department of Family Medicine in 2024. He is a board-certified family physician seeing patients at the Family Medicine Clinic – Island East. Dr. Teran earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology from The University of Texas at Austin and his Doctor of Medicine from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Dr. Teran completed his residency training at the University of Texas Tyler Health Science Center’s Rural Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Teran completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship from Louisiana State University Health in Shreveport Louisiana.

Dr. Teran is a board certified family physician and is certified in Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).

Dr. Teran's clinical interest are in taking care of chronic conditions that afflict the greater Houston/Galveston population, serving Latino and underserved communities, and ultrasound guided procedures for various musculoskeletal conditions.

Dr. Thompson joined UTMB's Department of Family Medicine in 1972. Dr. Thompson became Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine in 1998. She attended medical school at UTMB and did an internship at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. Following her internship, she returned to Galveston and became one of the first graduates of the Family Medicine Residency program at UTMB. Dr. Thompson is board certified in Family Medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine. She also has added credentials in Geriatrics. Her interests include medical student education, resident education and medical history and ethics.

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Dr. James E. Veselka graduated with a bachelor of science degree in biology and chemistry from Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX. He received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1983, and completed both his internship and residency in family medicine at Baylor Affiliated Hospitals, also in Houston.

Dr. Veselka has been in private practice for 35 years in Angleton and has served his community in both the business and non-profit sectors as a leader, volunteer and medical director. He looks forward to serving you and your family.

Christi Lynn Wargo, CPNP-PC, is a board certified and Texas state licensed pediatric nurse practitioner. She provides care for pediatric patients in the department of Dermatology and General Academic Pediatrics at the Bay Colony and Galveston clinics. Christi graduated with her Associates in Nursing in 2001 from College of the Mainland and from there went on to the University of Texas Medical Branch, where she received her Bachelor's in Nursing in 2003 and then her Master's in Nursing for Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in 2008. She is currently enrolled once again in UTMB's School of Nursing for her Doctorate in Nursing Practice with plans to graduate in the Spring of 2022.

Prior to joining the dermatology department in October of 2016, Christi worked as a pediatric nurse practitioner for the Texas Children's Mobile Clinic, the FQHC Bell's Hill Community clinic in Waco, and she started the school-based Kruse clinic at Memorial Hermann Health Centers for Schools in Pasadena. In 2017, Christi started in the department of General Academic Pediatrics Bay Colony location on Wednesdays seeing primary care patients. She also occasionally provides care at the UTMB Pediatric After-Hours Urgent care clinic in League City. Christi has a great love of community and spends much of her free time volunteering both in Texas as well as abroad.

She is also currently serving on the board of the Houston Area Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners as the Community Co-Chair and is Secretary for the Global Health Special Interest Group and member of the Pediatric Dermatology Special Interest Group. She is also a member of UTMB's Advanced Practice Providers Council. Christi is fluent in English and Spanish.