Lubbock Pediatrician, “a Giant Role Model,” Receives TMA’s Highest Honor

Among his many accomplishments, Surendra K. Varma, MD, likely prevented countless babies from intellectual and developmental disabilities. They are complications of congenital hypothyroidism, a treatable thyroid condition — for which Texas began to screen newborns in the 1970s.
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