Texas A&M Health Science Center and DeTar Healthcare System announced a partnership earlier this year that established a family medicine residency program in Victoria. This past July the three-year program accepted its first six residents. The curriculum will encourage participants to continue practicing in the area. The first class of residents recruited will be led by Dr. Sidney Ontai, director of DeTar Family Medicine Residency and assistant professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine. For a physician to practice medicine they must go through three years of training in their desired specialty called residency. These physicians chose the DeTar Family Medicine Center to start their career. The residents will complete their training in June 2019. DeTar received more than 1,000 applications.
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Wei Han, MD was born in China and moved to the U.S. when he was five. He moved around a lot as a child, including to South Carolina before settling in Austin, Texas for the past 9 years. He studied biomedical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, and got his medical degree and a Master in Public Health from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. He loves the hospitality he found on his rotation in Victoria and is looking forward to moving out of the big city to Victoria, which he found to be more relaxed. Dr. Han loves being outdoors, including hiking, kayaking and skiing.

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Janaki Samaraweera, MD was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida. She studied Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida in Gainsville. She went to medical school at St. George’s University in Granada. Her parents are retired: her father is an OB/GYN physician, and her mother worked as a Nurse Administrator.  She also has two brothers, one of which is her twin. When she completed a rotation at DeTar, she fell in love with the small town feel of the community and loved how genuine and open everyone was. Dr. Samaraweera loves yoga, meditation, kayaking, and writing poetry.

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