About Us
Dr. Mohamad Hassan – As a pediatrician and an ER physician, I truly believe that many emergencies can be easily avoided by a good and constant patient’s care at your local pediatrician office.
That is why at The Children’s Center of Corpus Christi we value preventative care as well as treating you child sickness without any delay.
Same day appointment, being available on the phone after hours and during the weekends 24/7 to answer all your kids health concern, is your right as a patient of us.
Over the past 20 years of my practice as a physician, I had the opportunity to work at many different locations with a variety group of people in United State and around the world. I learned that different ethnic group, communities, and even individual differs from each other in responding to therapy, medications and diseases. That had a huge impact of the way I practice medicine and they way we treat patients at the Children’s Center of Corpus Christi with its 2 locations. We keep up to date with the latest medical discoveries and researches supported by evidence based medicine. However, we take into consideration that each of our patients is unique .
We had developed a nationally recognized protocols to do the best we can for our patient’s population. starting with our ADHD protocol where we make sure we get a constant and frequent input about our patient’s improvement, not only from the parents but also from school and friends, we make sure each patient is taking the minimal amount of medication that will give him the best result, we monitor side effects and act promptly if it occur.
This is the same with our Asthma, Allergy protocol and out fight against obesity and Mental illnesses. We promote good health habits and try to detect diseases in early stages and we make sure our patient get the necessary referral fast.
We are breast feeding advocates, we understand how hard is to raise a child and work at the same time, so we extended our hours to 8 pm on Tuesday and Thursday so we can give a chance to working parents to visit us without having to take a time off from work and duty.
Our goal and mission is to do the best for your child, from birth to graduation.
Dr. Navid Anvaripour – Born in United State and grew up in Tehran, Iran. He graduated medical school in 2004 from “Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences” in Tehran, Iran and completed his Pediatrics Residency Program at “Mofid Children’s Hospital”, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical sciences in 2008.
As a Board-Certified Pediatrician, Dr. Anvaripour worked in Minoodasht, Iran from 2008-2017, not only in private practice, but also as the Head of the Pediatric Department at Minoodasht Hospital.
In 2017, Dr. Anvaripour moved back to the United States, to Tallahassee, Florida, where he was born.
He then moved to Corpus Christi in 2020 to attend the “Texas A&M College of Medicine Residency Program” at “Driscoll Children’s Hospital”.
Dr. Anvaripour currently serves as a Pediatric Emergency Physician at “Driscoll Children’s Hospital”, and he joined “Children’s Center of Corpus Christi” in July 2023.
While not working, He enjoys swimming, with his children, cooking, photography, reading, and playing music on the Dulcimer, Keyboard, and Setar.
Julie Willis, APRN,FNP-C – Julie was born and raised here in Corpus Christi. She has been working at Driscoll Children’s Hospital since 1995. She started in medical records and worked her way up to become a Registered Nurse in 1999.
After 20 years of being a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department She went to school and became a Family Nurse Practitioner. She enjoyed school and learned all about life span however her love for kids won her over to work at The Children’s Center of Corpus Christi starting in January 2020.
She continues to work in the Emergency Department as well at Driscoll Children’s Hospital as a Nurse Practitioner. She enjoys providing medical care and helping people tremendously.
When she’s not taking care of patients, she loves spending time with family and friends. She has three kids who are young adults and make her proud daily.
She loves going to the Frio River often, with her entire family which include her sisters, parents, kids and nieces. She loves watching her nieces play softball.
She’s a big sports fan. Green Bay Packers, San Antonio Spurs and Houston Astros are her favorite teams. She loves the outdoors and loves listening to all kinds of music including live bands.
Her educational background includes Del Mar College from 1997-1999 for ADN, UTA from 2016-2017 for BSN, UTA from 2017-2019 for MSN.
She has certifications in Family Nurse Practitioner–AANP, ACLS and PALS.
Olivia Lomas, FNP-BC – Flour Bluff Clinic – She graduated from the university of Texas at Arlington with her Master of Science in nursing in 2021.
She is licensed by the Texas Board of Nursing and Board-certified through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Olivia obtained her associate degree in nursing from Del Mar College in 2005.
She has several years of experience working with pediatric population in the hospital and home health care setting.
During her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, friends and her fur babies.
Morgan Gawlik Reyes, FNP-BC – Morgan is a board certified family nurse practitioner.
She was born and raised in the coastal bend area.
She graduated with her Bachelors of Science in Nursing in 2018.
In 2023 she graduated with her Masters of Science in Nursing.
Her goal is to ensure that children receive high-standard medical care so that they grow to their fullest potential.
Morgan is the latest addition to our family at the Children’s Center, she will be taking care of patients at Rand Morgan Road/Annaville Location.
