Dr. Derek Husmann

MD, FAAP

Dr. Derek Husmann AKA “Dr. Derek” was born and raised in the suburbs of Houston .  Dr. Husmann attended the University of Virginia on a diving scholarship and graduated “With Distinction.” During his second year, it was through a college career event as well as a missions conference at church that Dr. Husmann felt called to pursue medicine

Dr. Husmann earned his medical degree at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. During his first year he joined the U.S. Army as part of the Health Professions Scholarship Program. While in med school he developed some of his dearest lifelong friends, including the love of his life and future wife Sarah, who was a nurse at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Although he had committed to becoming a family doctor, the spark of Dr. Husmann’s love for pediatrics came during his fourth year of med school and left him wondering if he should change plans.

Upon graduation from Temple Medical School in 1998, Dr. Husmann entered the St. Francis Family Practice Residency in Wilmington, Delaware. During his first year, he decided to transition to pediatrics by first fulfilling his three-year active duty obligation to the Army. It was during the Army life that he married his wife Sarah.

Dr. Husmann returned to Texas in 2002 with his wife and infant son Luke to enter his pediatric residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In 2004 he transferred to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, where he completed his pediatric training in 2005. After this extended journey to becoming a pediatrician, he was overjoyed to start his first job at a private practice in Tucson, Arizona. During three delightful years there, the Husmann’s second son Nathan was born.

Dr. Husmann’s next career change brought his family to Brenham at the end of 2008. He then spent over twelve years serving the pediatric patients of Brenham and Washington County at the Brenham Clinic and the local hospital. During this time, their daughter Kate was born.

Dr. Husmann felt a calling for a more individualized approach to healthcare and started his own Direct Primary Care office in Brenham in 2022.  While running that practice over the last couple of years, Dr. Husmann desired to approach medicine a little differently and sought out a more integrative approach.  This desire led him to Shine Pediatrics, where he could surround himself with like-minded practitioners.  He is excited to meet the families of Shine!