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…
Mega Brains
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications Children and their families enjoy neuroscience experiments and activities at the UTHealth Houston Neuroscience Research Center’s Brain Night for Kids, March 16 at the John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Science. The event…
Gold Humanism
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications McGovern Medical School welcomes the newest members of the Gold Humanism Honor Society, Feb. 27. The mission of Gold Humanism Honor Society is to recognize individuals who are exemplars of humanistic patient care and…
Simulating Emergency Responses
Photos by UTHealth Houston UTHealth Houston students participating in the UTHealth Houston Center for Interprofessional Collaboration’s annual Mass Casualty Incident Simulation, March 3 at the Denton A. Cooley, MD and Ralph C. Cooley, DDS, University Life Center. To learn more…
Flores named Geriatric Society Fellow
The American Geriatric Society has named Renee Flores, MD, associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, as a member of its 2023 Class of AGS Fellows. AGS Fellow Status is awarded to AGS members who have demonstrated a professional…
Barratt wins Distinguished Faculty Award in Professionalism
The McGovern Medical School Office of Professionalism has named Michelle S. Barratt, MD, MPH, professor in the Department of Pediatrics, the 2023 winner of the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Distinguished Faculty Award in Professionalism Education. “It is a…
Heart & Vascular collaborative to set direction
For more than 50 years, UTHealth Houston has played a vital role in cardiac care, research and education. Building upon these strengths, President Giuseppe N. Colasurdo and Dean John Hancock recently announced the formation of UTHealth Houston Heart & Vascular—a…