McCullough wins stroke association lecture award
The American Stroke Association has named Louise McCullough, MD, PhD, professor and Roy M. and Phyllis Gough Huffington Distinguished Chair in the Department of Neurology, as the 2024 Thomas Willis Lecture Award winner. The Thomas Willis Lecture Award recognizes contributions…
Parchem awarded Preeclampsia Foundation grant
The Preeclampsia Foundation announced Jacqueline Parchem, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, as a recipient of its 2024 Peter Joseph Pappas Research Grants at the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine 44th Annual Pregnancy Meeting,…
Holt-Lunstad to present Knobil Lecture
The McGovern Medical School Office of Research Affairs welcomes Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University, as the 2024 speaker for the annual Ernst Knobil Distinguished Lecture, March 5. Holt-Lunstad, the director of the Society,…
Congratulations to the 2023 STAR awardees
UTHealth Houston relies on the dedication, knowledge, and expertise of employees to continue advancing the university’s key mission areas of health care, research, and education. Each year, UTHealth Houston celebrates the leadership and longevity of employees by recognizing their milestone…
Leadership change for the Department of Emergency Medicine
Following five years of exceptional leadership at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Bentley J. Bobrow, MD, has announced his plan to step down as professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, effective June 30. In the coming…
Houston PAP Project achieves grassroots success in community
“When you find something so precious, you want everyone to know.” Those are the words from cervical cancer survivor Juana Espino, who now serves as project coordinator of the Houston PAP Project. This UTHealth Houston program provides no-cost cervical cancer screenings…
Medical School moves up 4 spots in NIH funding
McGovern Medical School has increased its National Institutes of Health funding, as evidenced by the latest Blue Ridge rankings – moving up to 53 from 57 the prior year. An independent, nonprofit organization, the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research…
Transplant program’s growth gives new life, hope
The lack of donors for kidney transplants is a growing public health crisis in the United States, with more than 90,000 people waiting for a kidney but only 20,000 transplants performed annually. The Division of Immunology and Organ Transplantation in…
Arts & Resilience to feature Garzón, Magana
The John P. McGovern, MD, Center for Humanities and Ethics’ Arts & Resilience Program welcomes artists Nela Garzón and Gabriela Magana for the first of two events in the spring of 2024. The event begins at noon, Feb. 22 on…
MBID Research Retreat scheduled for March 7
Registration is open for the 2024 Molecular Basis of Infectious Disease (MBID) Research Retreat. The annual event will be held March 7 at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine (1825 Pressler St.). The MBID retreat, which began in 2008,…