Your Next Steps

Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications McGovern Medical School students participate in the annual Residency Fair, Oct. 4. Third-year medical students use the residency fair to gather more information about application processes and individual programs for potential upcoming residencies.


Creating Opportunities for Health Promotion

Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications The Department of Family and Community Medicine hosted Jonathan A. Patz, MD, MPH, for its annual presentation of the Sam & Elizabeth Nixon Lectureship in Family Medicine, Nov. 2 in MSB 2.135. Patz is…


UTHealth Houston launches program in honor of Carmel B. Dyer, MD

The legacy of Carmel Bitondo Dyer, MD, lives on in the same communities she sought to impact throughout her career. The late Dyer revolutionized geriatric health care across the country. She led the UTHealth Houston Consortium on Aging and was…


Turning Pro at McGovern Medical School: Nathan Carlin, PhD

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….


Class of 2026 to receive white coats Jan. 9

McGovern Medical School students from the Class of 2026 take the next step in their medical education journeys when they participate in the annual White Coat Ceremony, Jan. 9. The White Coat Ceremony begins at 3 p.m. at the Hobby…


Alumni Association leadership stays in the family

As a new school year begins at McGovern Medical School, many around campus and throughout the McGovern community may not have noticed that the Alumni Association has a new president. This could be because the incoming president looks almost identical…


Distinguished Honors

A trio of McGovern Medical School physicians are honored as 2022 Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital Distinguished Physicians. Pictured recipients are H.V. Anderson, MD, and Mark A. Farnie, MD. Not pictured are Michelle S. Barratt, MD…


Throwback Thursday: Edible Abodes

Take a delicious trip down memory lane with these photos of the 1994 Gingerbread Village at Hermann Hospital.


New Recognition

Holders of the inaugural Memorial Hermann Chairs are honored at a Faculty Endowment Luncheon Dec. 8. Pictured are Roc Chen, MD; Manickam “Nicks” Kumaravel, MD; Erin Furr Stimming, MD; Emily Robinson, MD; and Kenneth Mathis, MD. Holders not pictured include…


Team-based learning: it takes a village

Team-based learning (TBL) is an active learning pedagogy used in medical schools across the world. In TBL, students complete an independent test and then are put in a pre-determined small group to complete a group test. Faculty are able to…