UTHealth Houston hosts 2026 Scientific Retreat
Photos by Dwight Andrews, UTHealth Houston The McGovern Medical School Pediatric Research Center and UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry’s Center for Craniofacial Research continued their longstanding collaboration with the 2026 Annual Joint Retreat, bringing together faculty, trainees, and research staff….
Obesity Medicine Association announces award in Horn’s honor
The Obesity Medicine Association has established a new honor recognizing excellence in education, naming its inaugural Deborah Bade Horn Educator of the Year Award in tribute to Deborah Horn, DO, MPH, professor in the Department of Surgery at McGovern Medical…
Class of 2026 to celebrate commencement May 12
Students from the Class of 2026 will officially earn the title of “doctor” at the 2026 McGovern Medical School commencement ceremony May 12. Festivities begin 9 a.m. at NRG Arena, 1 NRG Pkwy. Graduates should arrive between 7 and 7:30…
Space Medicine faculty lead on national and international stages
As global interest in human spaceflight continues to accelerate, faculty from UTHealth Houston’s Department of Emergency Medicine are helping shape the future of medicine beyond Earth. Leading this effort is Kris Lehnhardt, MD, director of Space Medicine at UTHealth Houston,…
Neerukonda named Texas Medical Association Student of the Year
The Texas Medical Association named fourth-year medical student Sanjay Neerukonda as the 2026 Outstanding Student of the Year at TexMed, the association’s annual conference held in Corpus Christi, Texas. Established in 1998, the Texas Medical Association’s Medical Student Section Student of…
McGovern Medical School honors 2026 teaching excellence awardees
Congratulations to the 2026 winners of the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards. May is Teaching Excellence Month at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Since 2025, the awards have shifted focus toward junior faculty. Senior faculty who have been awarded the…
Volunteers Deliver AniMeals
As part of Global Volunteer Health Month, the Joan and Stanford Alexander Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine organized a pet food drive in early April at McGovern Medical School, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, UT Physicians, and Harris Health Lyndon…
Family and Community Medicine to host Nixon Lecture
Join the Department of Family and Community Medicine as they host the Sam and Elizabeth Nixon Lectureship in Family Medicine at 1 p.m. May 13 in MSB 2.135 and via Zoom. Zoom Meeting Number: 161 688 4156 Zoom Password: 339830…
Abeln named top student in gross anatomy
The Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston has awarded fourth-year medical student Andrea Abeln with the 2026 Outstanding Student in Gross Anatomy Award. Abeln entered medical school as a nontraditional student after leaving her…
Tumor-on-a-chip brings new insight to pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most difficult cancers to treat, in large part because tumors do not exist in isolation. Instead, they are surrounded by a dense and complex network of blood vessels, connective tissue, and immune cells that…