Houston Shock Symposium set for April 14-16

The Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation and UTHealth Houston Heart and Vascular will host the Fifth Annual Houston Shock Symposium, April 14-16 at Royal Sonesta Hotel Houston Galleria (2222 West Loop South). The 2023 Houston Shock Symposium’s theme…


Women Faculty Forum – Women in Medicine & Sciences Feature: Rana Afifi, MD

Each month, the Women Faculty Forum presents its Women in Medicine and Sciences Feature, highlighting the women faculty at McGovern Medical School who are leaders in medicine, research, and education. This month’s feature is Rana Afifi, MD, associate professor in…


New UTHealth Houston school to train behavioral health workers receives approval from UT System, state

The new UTHealth Houston School of Behavioral Health Sciences has been approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and unanimously by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, moving the university closer to establishing a seventh school. “This…


Thank You, Doctors!

Graphic by Omar Aguado/Office of Communications We appreciate our doctors every day, but especially on their day. On March 30, we celebrate National Doctors Day, a day to honor, appreciate, and thank our physicians for all that they do.


Save the Date: UTHealth Houston Giving Day

It’s almost time to join UTHealth Houston for the fifth annual Giving Day, a special 24-hour period where the UTHealth Houston family — alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends — comes together to support causes that are meaningful to them….


Researchers awarded $15M in NIH BRAIN grants

Three grants totaling $15 million, which aim to enhance knowledge of the brain processes that play a key role in speech, epilepsy, and reading, have been awarded to researchers at McGovern Medical School by the National Institutes of Health Brain…


Turning Pro at McGovern Medical School: SCoPE

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. This professional formation (Turning Pro) is shaped by the community in which we are surrounded….


Melton, Arnold honored with Distinguished Alumnus

McGovern Medical School honored Shelby D. Melton, MD ’04; and Lemuel Maxwell Arnold, MD ’77; as its 2022 Distinguished Alumnus Award winners during the Alumni Weekend celebration at the Distinguished Alumnus Award Reception and Ceremony, March 23 at the Westin…


Honor Society Induction

Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society welcomes the 2023 McGovern Medical School class of inductees, March 6 at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine. Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society recognizes and…


Team-based care to bridge the divide in cognitive decline

Practitioners, researchers, and trainees in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and dentistry will navigate through the difficult terrain of ensuring safe, effective medication use in older adult patients experiencing cognitive decline at the National Institute on Aging-supported Geriatric Medication Safety Symposium April…