Dr. Edward Goodman joined the medical staff of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas in 1975 and has been a faculty member of the Texas Health Dallas Internal Medicine Residency, which he co-founded, since 1977. He served the program as associate program director for many years, and has also held positions as teaching attending and head of the infectious diseases section. In 2007, Dr. Goodman became a member of the key faculty. An active leader at Texas Health Dallas, he served as medical director of infection prevention and antibiotic management, and has contributed his time and leadership to multiple hospital and community committees. Dr. Goodman served as president of the Texas Health Dallas medical staff in 2012.

Dr. Goodman’s areas of interest in infectious diseases include antibiotic stewardship, infection control, bone and joint infections, granulomatous diseases, bacteremia, respiratory and urinary tract infections. He is the author or co-author of 24 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Goodman is a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell University Medical College and was a resident, chief resident and fellow in infectious diseases at Parkland Memorial Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center. He served as a major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps at Fort Cavazos in Texas and in Managua, Nicaragua.

Dr. Goodman is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and a Fellow of the Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America. He is a two-time recipient of the Robert L. North Teaching Award. He also has been honored with the Dallas County Medical Society’s Max Cole Leadership Award and the Texas Medical Association’s Presidential Award, among others. He is an adjunct professor of infectious disease at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Dr. John Harper joined Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas in 1979, a hospital where he has spent his decades-long career as a cardiologist on the hospital’s medical staff and in private practice. He joined the Texas Health Dallas Internal Medicine Residency Program as a member of the key faculty in 2007.

Born in Akron, Ohio, Dr. Harper earned a bachelor’s degree in English at Southern Methodist University and his medical degree from UT Southwestern Medical Center. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital and the Dallas VA Medical Center, and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Harper served as the chief of internal medicine and director of outpatient clinical services at Altus Air Force Base in Altus, Oklahoma, for two years.

Dr. Harper was awarded the Robert L. North Teaching Award by the staff of Texas Health Dallas and the Distinguished Alumnus Award by Southern Methodist University. He has been named to D Magazine’s “Best Doctors” list multiple times.

Dr. Harper’s work has been published in the America Journal of Cardiology and he is the author of a book chapter on literature and medicine. He has given multiple lectures on cardiology topics and the intersection of literature and medicine. Dr. Harper is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Fellow of the American Heart Association.

Dr. Mitch Carroll grew up in Temple, Texas, and earned his undergraduate degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1994. He attended medical school at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, graduating in 1999, and completed his internship and residency at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2002.

Dr. Carroll maintains a busy outpatient private practice since 2002 at Texas Health Dallas, focused primarily on geriatric patients. He has served as an attending at Texas Health Dallas’s ambulatory clinic for residents for nearly 20 years.

Dr. Carroll was awarded the Robert L. North Teaching Award by residents of the Texas Health Dallas Internal Medicine Residency, as well as a teaching award from UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Alpha Omega Alpha Society. He has been named to D Magazine’s “Best Doctors” list many times.

Dr. Carroll lives in East Dallas, where he spends his free time biking, watching old movies, and relaxing with his family, which includes his three young sons.

Dr. Shounak Das is a graduate of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, the medical school in Vancouver, Canada, where he grew up. After postgraduate training in Canada, including an internship at the Toronto General Hospital, he relocated to the U.S. and completed his internal medicine training at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2008.

Dr. Das practices outpatient internal medicine with a focus on geriatrics. In addition, Dr. Das has served as an attending physician at the Texas Health Dallas Internal Medicine Residency’s ambulatory clinic for residents for more than 15 years.

Dr. Das had the honor of co-authoring the UpToDate section on NSAIDS, NSAIDS: Primary prevention of gastroduodenal toxicity, along with Dr. Mark Feldman, the former program director and chair of internal medicine at Texas Health Dallas. Dr. Das has also participated in a clinical study on aging and dementia.

Dr. M. Shahbaz Hasan was born in Khairpur, Pakistan. He attended college at D. J. Sindh Government Science College in Karachi, Pakistan, before earning his medical degree in 1989 from Dow Medical College, also located in Karachi, Pakistan. Dr. Hasan completed his internship and residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas in 1994. His fellowship training in infectious diseases was completed in 1996 at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Dallas VA Medical Center. Dr. Hasan is board-certified in infectious diseases, hospice and palliative care.

After completion of his training, Dr. Hasan served as an associate professor of Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center, as well as a staff physician at the Dallas VA Medical Center, from 1996 through 2005. He also served on the medical staff of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Grapevine. In 2007, Dr. Hasan joined InfectiousCare and has become an integral part of the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Internal Medicine Residency. He is a recipient of the Robert L. North Award for teaching, and has been published in numerous journals. Dr. Hasan has been named to D Magazine’s “Best Doctors” list in the specialty of infectious diseases.

Dr. Natalia Palacio was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a graduate of Maimonides University Medical Sciences School in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She came to the U.S. to continue her medical training, starting as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Human Nutrition at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She then completed the internal medicine residency program at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, graduating in 2008.

Dr. Palacio practiced and taught residents at Texas Health Dallas as a hospitalist. She then started a continuing care clinic program at Texas Health Dallas for at-risk populations, aiming to connect patients to a medical home and working in transitions of care.

In 2019, Dr. Palacio made a full transition to primary care, and in 2023, she assumed the role of attending within Texas Health Dallas Internal Medicine Residency’s ambulatory clinic for residents.

Dr. Palacio enjoys reading, traveling and spending time with her family and friends.

Dr. Bruce Wall was born in Hawaii, the son of a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. For the first 15 years of his life, he moved from one military base to another throughout the U.S., an experience to which he attributes his increased ability to listen and negotiate with people. After graduating from high school in St. Petersburg, Florida, he attended Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he studied in the School of Science & Engineering, a place where he pursued his interest in complex mathematic formulas. Dr. Wall then remained in New Orleans, earning his doctor of medicine from the Tulane School of Medicine.

Dr. Wall completed his internal medicine and nephrology training at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, and joined Dallas Nephrology Associates in 1986.

Dr. Wall’s initial entry into graduate medical education started in 1993 with an appointment to the teaching faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center and through time he invested in teaching at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. Spending time teaching has been an area of intense interest and dedicated for Dr. Wall for more than 25 years.

Dr. Wall has been part of the core faculty at Texas Health Dallas Internal Medicine Residency since 2019. Attendance at morning report, teaching rounds at bedside and participation in noon teaching conference remain an integral part of his schedule. Working with residents -- while both teaching and learning -- is a great source of joy for Dr. Wall.

Dr. Wall has served in multiple leadership positions at Texas Health Dallas, with Dallas Nephrology Associates, and in the peer review process for both organizations.