Celebrating Women in Medicine
Video by Danny Palomba/Office of Communications In honor of National Women’s Physician Day, McGovern Medical School students share which women physicians inspire them.
Collaborating Against Birth Defects
The Department of Pediatrics sponsored a Birth Defects Symposium, attended by department faculty as well as the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry, and the UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics. The four-hour session featured…
Women in Leadership
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications The UTHealth Houston Department of Human Resources hosts the Women in Leadership Seminar, Feb. 2. An informal seminar series designed to develop staff and faculty leadership competency and efficacy in women leaders from junior…
Bovay Lecture set for Feb. 17
Marco Demaria, PhD, will present the 2023 Harry E. Bovay, Jr. Lecture on “Heterogeneity in Cellular Senescence: From mechanisms to interventions.” Demaria will present the lecture at 11 a.m. Feb. 17 in the Beth Robertson Auditorium at the Institute of…
Research from Dragoi lab on cortical adaptation published in Nature Communications
Recent research from the lab of Valentin Dragoi, PhD, Rochelle and Max Levit Distinguished Professor in the Neurosciences, on the adaptive capacity of visual cortical populations has been published in the January edition of Nature Communications. Research performed in the…
Summer student recognized in science talent search
A high school senior participating in the Department of Pediatric Surgery’s trauma visiting scholar program recently was named a finalist in the Regeneron Science Talent Search for her research project, Selective Inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Attenuates Traumatic Brain Injury-Mediated Blood-Brain…
Hancock hosts inaugural town hall meeting
Executive Dean John Hancock hosted his first Town Hall meeting Jan. 30 in an online format. In addition to his update on the school, LaTanya Love, MD, dean of education, and Richard Andrassy, MD, senior vice president for clinical affairs…
Stitched Up
Members of the McGovern Medical School Student Clinical Skills Society participate in a suture clinic, Jan. 27 in the Human Structure Facility Anatomy Lab.
Terri-FIC Career
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications McGovern Medical School celebrates the retirement and “Terri-FIC” career of Theresa Koehler, PhD, Jan. 27 in MSB 2.103. Koehler joined the faculty at McGovern Medical School in 1991 and became chair of the Department…
UTHealth Houston Saves a Life
Photos by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications The UTHealth Houston Saves a Life community outreach program teaches how to save a life using an AED, Jan. 25 in Webber Plaza. UTHealth Houston Saves a Life aims to teach bystanders simple, life-saving…