I was born in New Jersey, and completed my undergraduate B.S. in Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. I enrolled in a combined Ph.D.-M.D. program at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) where I completed my doctorate in Biological Chemistry in 1973 and obtained my medical diploma in 1975. I stayed on at UCLA to complete a three-year residency in Pediatrics. While on the teaching staff of UCLA, I practiced Emergency Pediatric medicine while completing my Masters degree in Public Health with an emphasis on international health.

Beginning in 1980 I spent three years in Africa working in Tunisia, Liberia, and Congo Republic for CARE as their African Regional Public Health Advisor. I met my wife, Janet (a Texan), while in Liberia, West Africa and returned to the U.S. to marry in 1983. I continued my Emergency Pediatric service in Los Angeles for seven years. A call from the State Department Agency for International Development enticed me back overseas to Southeast Asia (Indonesia) where I worked as an advisor to the Indonesian Ministry of Health for eleven years. During that tenure, I coordinated projects to improve child survival and immunization rates among rural people in the outlying provinces of Sulawesi, the Moluccas, and East Borneo plus Papua New Guinea, China, and Cambodia. I often served as a consultant for UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank in developing programs for training traditional birth attendants, village health workers, and rural doctors. 
 

 
My family and I moved to Texas from SE Asia in January 2000 in order to be near relatives. I joined a group practice in the Woodlands in April 2002 and decided to leave in September 2005 to open my own practice in the Lake Conroe/Montgomery area.

I have an adult married son, Matthew, living in Los Angeles working as a screen writer with his wife, Lisa, an actress and stand-up comedian. He recently completed writing and co-directing a movie with Ricky Gervais that was released in October , 2009 entitled The Invention of Lying.

I also have a married daughter, Cori, who attended graduate school in English at UTSA along with her husband, Tyler, who just completed his Masters degree in Chemistry and works for the FAA. Cori and Tyler gave us our first grandchild, Noah, in February, 2009.

Marcy, our youngest daughter, is attending SHSU completing a degree in Biology and pre-med in 2010. My wife and two daughters all work in the office. Janet holds a Speech and Hearing Pathology degree from West Texas A&M and a Masters degree from UCLA in Education.

Rochelle Schultz, MSN, RN, CPNP

I completed my Bachelor of Nursing degree at Houston Baptist University in 1987. I worked at Texas Children’s Hospital for several years in general pediatrics and dialysis. I received my Master’s in Nursing, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1992. After graduating I stayed in Galveston for 3 years where I started a school-based clinic in the middle school. After returning to Houston I worked for a busy pediatric practice where I saw a variety of patients for both sick & well visits as well as performed adolescent psychiatric history and physicals. I have been on faculty at Texas Woman’s University since 1999 where I teach pediatrics to undergraduate and graduate nursing students. During that time I have maintained a part-time clinical practice doing primarily well child exams and ADHD evaluations and management. I am certified as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner by the National Certifying Board of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Nurses and licensed as a Registered Nurse and Advance Practice Nurse with the Texas Board of Nursing.

Anjali Ranade, M.D.