Liu, Jet, Jianqing, MD

Dr. Melissa S. Arief is a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon in Houston, Texas and has a Subspecialty Certificate in Surgery of the Hand. She graduated with general and departmental honors from Vassar College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in biochemistry. Dr. Arief then earned a combined Medical Doctorate (MD) and Master of Health Science (MHS) degree, specializing in translational research at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Arief completed her residency at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York. She continued her education by completing a fellowship in hand and upper extremity surgery at The Philadelphia Hand Center ' which is affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University ' where she trained with world-renowned hand surgeons in all of the latest surgical procedures and techniques. Outside of work Dr. Arief is very active; she enjoys indoor cycling, swimming, cooking and reading.

Serving Northwest Houston, Dr. Christina Paruthi provides excellent cardiologic care. A born-and-raised Texan, she completed medical school at St. George's University School of Medicine. She then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to complete her Internal Medicine residency at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Dr. Paruthi completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the Texas Medical Center. In addition to this, she completed a year of fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant. Dr. Paruthi is Board-Certified in Cardiovascular Disease, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant, Nuclear Cardiology, and Internal Medicine. She offers personalized, thoughtful cardiologic care to all of her patients and enjoys spending time with family and cheering on the Texans, Astros, and Rockets in her free time.