Turning Pro at McGovern Medical School: Michelle Barratt, MD, MPH

“Education toward professionalism is more than being skilled and knowledgeable. It requires a lifelong transformational change in how we think, act, and feel as doctors. Our professional formation (Turning Pro) is shaped by the community in which we are surrounded.”…


Rios elected to Sigma Xi Honor Society

Adan Rios, MD, professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, has been elected as a member of the Sigma Xi Honor Society, and as a board member for the society’s Texas Medical Center Chapter. “I have been arduously working for…


Shah to present Withers Lectureship

Nipa R. Shah, MD, FAAFP, professor and chair of the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville, will present the Department of Family and Community Medicine‘s 2023 Henry W. Withers…


Spotlight: Vaccaro Greaves

Graphic by Omar Aguado/Office of Communications Don’t miss the latest edition of Spotlight, featuring Vaccaro Greaves, executive services administrator in the Office of Educational Programs.


IMMportant Research

Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases hosts the IMM Research Retreat, July 27 in the Beth Robertson Auditorium at the IMM.


Welcome Class of 2027

Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications McGovern Medical School welcomed the Graduating Class of 2027 to campus over the week of July 31-Aug. 4 with a plethora of orientation events. The incoming MS1s will participate in their first classes beginning…


Pediatric Neuroscience Symposium set for Sept. 9

Registration is open for the 10th annual Pediatric Neuroscience Symposium, hosted by UTHealth Houston Neurosciences, Sept. 9 in the Hermann Pavilion Conference Center at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital (6411 Fannin St.). The 2023 conference is titled “Children With Neurological and…


Genetic mutation can lead to coronary artery disease at young age

A novel molecular pathway to explain how a mutation in the gene ACTA2 can cause individuals in their 30s – with normal cholesterol levels and no other risk factors — to develop coronary artery disease has been identified, according to…


Neurohospitalist Fellowship Program earns society accreditation

The Neurohospitalist Society has announced the McGovern Medical School Neurohospitalist Fellowship Program has been approved for fellowship accreditation, becoming just the seventh program in the country to receive such distinction. McGovern joins the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern…


Rheumatology recruits co-director for Scleroderma Program

The Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine has recruited a new co-director of the Scleroderma Program, one of the largest scleroderma clinical and research programs in the world. An internationally known researcher and clinician in scleroderma (systemic sclerosis), Zsuzsanna…