I’m Aware That I’m Rare: George B. Mallory, MD

The phaware® interview

George B. Mallory, MD is a pediatric pulmonologist at Texas Children’s Hospital. In 2001, he joined the Baylor College of Medicine pediatric faculty and founded the TCH Lung Transplant Program. Since 2005, Dr. Mallory has also been medical director of the region’s only pediatric pulmonary hypertension program. In this episode, Dr. Mallory discusses his experience with lung transplantation in children with pulmonary hypertension and cystic fibrosis.

My name is George Mallory. I’m a pediatric pulmonologist, currently working at the twilight of my career at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, a member of the faculty at the Baylor College of Medicine.

I’ve had a really unique perspective on pulmonary hypertension in children in that I started in lung transplantation almost 28 years ago, in the era where there were no therapies. And so many of my very first patients referred at St. Louis Children’s Hospital for lung transplantation when it was brand new, had pulmonary hypertension. And I still remember … if I can give you a precious vignette, just a…