Women Faculty Forum honors six with excellence awards
The Women Faculty Forum honored six winners of the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Excellence Awards on July 23 in the Fifth Floor Gallery. The WFF Excellence Awards recognize outstanding contributions made by women faculty at the Medical School….
From basketball pro to medical resident, aspiring surgeon reaches for new heights
A graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, where she served as captain of the women’s basketball team, Krystle Henderson, MD, ’23, always loved science and held a fascination with the workings of the human body. After an overseas…
Circadian clock impact on cluster headache funded by $2.4M NIH grant
The link between severe headache disorders and the body’s circadian clock in pain timing and thresholds will be studied with a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to UTHealth Houston researchers. The research…
Bishehsari to establish Gastroenterology Research Center
The Department of Internal Medicine welcomed Faraz Bishehsari, MD, PhD, on June 2024, to establish the Gastroenterology Research Center (GRC), a new multidisciplinary gastroenterology research center at McGovern Medical School. The GRC will integrate translational research with patient care, focusing…
Hospital named in Rios’ honor
The National Government of Panama and the Caja del Seguro Social unanimously decided to name the country’s newest cancer institute in honor of Adan Rios, MD, professor in the Department of Internal Medicine. The Institute of Cancerologia Dr. Adan Rios…
Circadian rhythm research published in Cell Reports
Recent research from the lab of Kristin Eckel-Mahan, PhD, associate professor at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, has been published in the June edition of Cell Reports. The paper, titled “Cell-specific regulation of the circadian clock by BMAL1…
JAMP students learn about medical school and themselves
Medical school, MCAT preparations, interview tips, philanthropy, team building: these are all things undergraduate students learn during the Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) of McGovern Medical School. But most importantly, they learn about themselves. Funded by the Texas Higher Education…
Routt named AONA educator of the year
The AONA has named Milton ‘Chip’ Routt, MD, professor and Andrew R. Burgess, MD, Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery Trauma, as the recipient of the AO North American Jeff Mast Educator of the Year Award. Routt received the award at the…
Risk-taker sidelined by sarcoidosis delays adventures for treatment
Extreme athlete doesn’t begin to describe Ian Rivers. At 58, his accomplishments read like a script in an adventure movie: climbed Mount Everest, swam the longest river in England, and was the 16th person in the world to complete the…
Teams rally to aid hurricane recovery efforts
Like many in the Greater Houston area, McGovern Medical School was not spared the wrath of destruction from Hurricane Beryl July 8. But unlike many residents who continue to repair these storm damages, McGovern Medical School has quickly rebounded from…