Melania Sunita Poonacha, MD

Dr. Winners Mendizabal specializes in neonatology with the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Institute. He sees patients at the hospital's main campus in St. Petersburg, as well as at Brandon Regional Hospital where he serves as interim medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), through an affiliation with Johns Hopkins All Children's. He joined the hospital staff in 2012.Dr. Winners Mendizabal earned his medical degree from Universidad Boliviana Mayor de San Andres in La Paz, Bolivia. He completed training in pediatrics at University of Kansas and neonatal-perinatal fellowship at Case Western Reserve University at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. His research interests include retinopathy of prematurity, chronic intermittent hypoxia and enteral and parental nutrition. He is fluent in Spanish.

Dr. Patel specializes in pediatric anesthesiology and is the perioperative medical director at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. He joined the hospital staff in 2007. Dr. Patel earned his medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in St. George’s, Grenada. He trained at MCP-Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and completed a residency and pediatric fellowship in anesthesia through Penn State University at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Schallert specializes in pediatric radiology at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. She joined the medical staff in 2022 and sees patients on our main campus in St. Petersburg, Florida.Dr. Schallert?earned her medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida. She completed an internship at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. She then completed a residency in diagnostic radiology from the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, followed by a pediatric radiology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.Dr. Schallert is conversational in Spanish.