Mariana Grossi Bessa Szuchmacher, MD

Dr. Stephen A. Thacker is a pediatric infectious disease specialist providing inpatient and outpatient consultation services. He treats rare and complex conditions such as fever of unknown origin, recurrent fevers, congenital infections, tick-borne disease, and hardware-related infections in addition to travel and adoption medicine. Dr. Thacker strives to provide the best care possible in a patient and family-centered approach. He is passionate about patient safety and quality improvement of health systems. His research interests have ranged from vaccine and pharmaceutical studies to device research to reduce the risk of infections after surgery. He takes pride in advocating for the health of children and has held leadership positions in the American Academy of Pediatrics. Prior to joining MUSC in 2022, he was faculty at Mercer University School of Medicine in the Departments of Pediatrics and Bioethics and Humanities in Savannah, GA. He received several awards from the A.A.P. and the City of Savannah for his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Thacker received his undergraduate and medical doctorate degrees at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Following his Pediatric residency training in Nashville, TN at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dr. Thacker completed subspecialty training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, TX. Dr. Thacker is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and serves as Medical Director for the Pediatric Antibiotic Stewardship Program.

Dr. Arni Nutting's clinical specialties are in echocardiography and congenital cardiac MRI. In addition, he attends on the general pediatric step-down ward and sees general pediatric patients in outpatient clinic. Most of his outpatient time is spent in the North Charleston Clinic but he occasionally sees patients downtown or in Murrells Inlet.

Dr. Ramin Eskandari grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and received his bachelors in science in biology/neurobiology at the University of Michigan. After college Dr. Eskandari lived in Switzerland while working at a sports camp for kids. This was followed but two more years of international travel while receiving his Master's in Medical Science. He participated in research projects in artificial vision and hydrocephalus, fueling his future research interests in pediatric hydrocephalus and brain injury.Ramin Eskandari is an associate professor of neurosurgery and chief of pediatric neurosurgery at the Medical University of South Carolina. He holds adjunct positions in the Departments of Pediatrics (Child Neurology), Surgery (Plastic Surgery) and Immunology/Microbiology (Director of Pediatric Brain Injury and Hydrocephalus Research). His clinical expertise focuses on the surgical management of children with disorders of the brain and spine, minimally invasive methods for treating pediatric neurosurgical disorders, and endoscopic treatment of multiple disorders including complex hydrocephalus and brain tumors. Dr. Eskandari has always had a very fervent desire to maintain basic science research alongside clinical therapeutics. He opened the first pediatric hydrocephalus and brain jury research laboratory in South Carolina in 2014 and has maintained active research through internal, state level and philanthropic grant funding. Currently, his laboratory has invented a novel cell culture model of elevated intracranial pressure and has collaborated on a novel medical therapeutic to prevent progressive brain injury and hydrocephalus in neonates with brain hemorrhage.