Ensuring Quality
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications The McGovern Medical School Department of Internal Medicine hosts its annual Quality Fair, May 3. Healthcare quality and patient safety are multifaceted fields that encompass efforts to enhance the effectiveness, safety, and patient experience…
Bookmarking Osteoporosis
Photos courtesy of Maureen Beck, DNP May is osteoporosis awareness month. To commemorate this month, Maureen Beck, DNP, co-director of the Center for Healthy Aging (CHA) started an initiative to educate patients and medical students on osteoporosis. Beck designed a…
Herbert L. and Margaret W. DuPont Master Clinical Teaching Award: Dia Waguespack, MD
Dia Waguespack, MD, associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, is the winner of the 2024 Herbert L. and Margaret W. DuPont Master Clinical Teaching Award. Established in 2001 and made possible by a gift from the DuPonts, the…
Writing fellow published in Paris Review
When Emily Barr learned that the McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics would offer a writing fellowship, she applied with a specific goal in mind – to submit for publication an essay she began working on years earlier as part…
Bartley named Outstanding Student in Gross Anatomy
The Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy has named Brooke Bartley, MD, ’24, as the winner of the Outstanding Student in Gross Anatomy 2024 Award. The award honors Bartley for her excellent performance in the Gross Anatomy course during her first…
Summer Research
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications The McGovern Medical School Office of Educational Programs hosts U.S. undergraduate students and first-year medical school students for the Summer Research Program. Students receive hands-on laboratory research experience from UTHealth Houston faculty members throughout…
Discovering Gerotherapeutics
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications George Kuchel, MD, presents the 2024 Cheves Smythe Distinguished Lecture, on May 21 in MSB 3.001.
Congratulations, Class of 2024
Video by Danny Palomba/Office of Communications. Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications. McGovern Medical School celebrated its newest alumni doctors at the Class of 2024 Commencement Ceremony on May 10 at NRG Arena. A full photo gallery of all of…
Benjy F. Brooks, MD Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award: Akemi Kawaguchi, MD
Akemi Kawaguchi, MD, associate professor in the Department of Pediatric Surgery, is the 2024 winner of the Benjy F. Brooks, MD, Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award. “I am surprise, elated, and humbled to receive this award,” Kawaguchi said. “I am so…
UTHealth Houston receives $3.4 million in grants for trauma research initiatives
Groundbreaking research initiatives to advance the treatment of traumatic injuries at UTHealth Houston have been funded with $3.4 million in grants from the Trauma Research and Combat Casualty Collaborative (TRC4), an initiative of The University of Texas System. “These research…