General Pediatrics
General Pediatrics
Our pediatricians examine your children regularly to assess their growth, development, and assess their general physical condition. They also refer patients to pediatric medical specialists and provide other medical referrals when necessary with healthcare devoted to the well-being of children of all ages, from infancy through adolescence.
General Pediatrics
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Mayra Alejandra Jones-Betancourt, MD
Pediatrics
Dr. Jones-Betancourt is originally from Vista, CA located in San Diego county. She was the first person in her family to attend college. Dr. Jones-Betancourt completed her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley where she studied environmental biology with an emphasis on human health. She attended University of California, Davis for medical school where she was involved with student run clinics and the Latino Medical Student Association. She completed her residency training at University of Southern California Los Angeles county. Dr.
Pamela Girgis, APRN, CPMP-PC, PMHS
Pediatric Family Support Center
Pam Girgis, a UNLV Health pediatric nurse practitioner and project manager for school-based health clinics in Las Vegas, has specialized in working with uninsured children, the homeless, the sex-trafficked, and refugees, advocating for these populations through state legislatures, the media, Children’s Health Fund Network and Nevada Children’s Health Project.
Rebecca Meyers, MD, FAAP
Pediatrics
Rebecca Meyers, MD, was born and raised in Northport, AL. She received her undergraduate degree from New York University in New York, NY, followed by a graduate degree in physical therapy at California State University, Northridge. She completed medical school at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, LA, where she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. She then completed her pediatric residency training at the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.
Beverly Neyland, MD
Pediatrics
Beverly A. Neyland, professor of Pediatrics at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, earned the B.S. degree from Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and the M.D. degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. Additional training includes an externship at the University of Zagreb in Yugoslavia; an internship at the Long Beach Memorial Children’s Hospital, Long Beach, California; and pediatric residency at the UCLA/Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California. She is Board Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.
Fateh Peera, MD
Pediatrics
Dr. Fateh Peera, who at the University of Arizona College of Medicine studied the importance of calories obtained from beverages as a contributing factor to obesity in children, joined UNLV Health as a pediatrician in 2018.
A 2007 graduate of the University of Arizona College of Medicine where he also completed his residency program in pediatrics, he worked as a pediatrician in Tucson, AZ for five years before becoming an assistant professor of pediatrics at Texas Tech University in 2015.
David Savarese, MD
Pediatrics
Dr. David Savarese, an associate professor in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Pediatrics, was director of a community health center in Connecticut that offered medical care, behavioral health care and dental health care to children and their families who were traumatized by the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in Newtown, Conn. That tragedy took the lives of 20 children and six adults.
Dodds P Simangan Jr., DO
Pediatrics
Dr. Dodds Simangan is an an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, and a board-certified general pediatrician; who sees patients while teaching medical students and pediatric residents at the UNLV Health Pediatric Clinic and the newborn nursery at Sunrise Children’s Hospital.
Josephine Sun, MD
Pediatrics
Josephine Sun, MD, is originally from Salt Lake City, UT and spent half of her childhood in Taiwan. She received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Utah. During medical school, she was involved in many volunteer activities including the Somali Refugee Program and health fairs for the underserved community.
Julpohng “JP” Vilai, MD
Pediatrics
Julpohng “JP” Vilai, MD, is an assistant professor in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Vilai’s clinical interests include children with chronic healthcare needs, underserved populations, behavioral and mental health, transplantation medicine, telehealth, and LGBTQ+ and adolescent medicine.
Osman Khan Yousufzai, MD
Pediatrics
Osman Khan Yousufzai, MD, a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia, is an assistant professor in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Pediatrics.
Named chief resident during his pediatric residency training at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, Dr. Yousufzai’s writing has been published in the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics.