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…
Soni to present Kirkendall Lecture
The Department of Internal Medicine welcomes Nilam J. Soni, MD, as the keynote speaker for the Walter M. Kirkendall, MD, and Margaret K. Kirkendall Annual Endowed Lecture Series, March 30. Soni is the director of the VA Point-of-Care Ultrasound Patient…
Arts & Resilience returns with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley
The McGovern Medical school Arts & Resilience program returns for its third installment of 2023, welcoming multidisciplinary artist Lanecia Rouse Tinsley. The presentation will begin at noon, March 22 and will be held on Zoom. Rouse Tinsley, is an artist…
Satellite fitness center set to open at McGovern Medical School
For those who have always wanted a return of a fitness center to the Medical School Building, the wait is almost over. A 2,000-square-foot space on the upper floor of McGovern Medical School will be the future home to the…
Debes, Dragoi publish work on optogenetic control of brain circuits in Science
Recent research from the lab of Valentin Dragoi, PhD, Rochelle and Max Levitt Distinguished Professor in the Neurosciences, revealing for the first time that cortical feedback projections carry attentional signals to individual neurons and cell populations in visual cortex, has…
McGovern Medical School students looking forward to meeting their matches March 17
Immigrants and children of immigrants are among the 225 students in the McGovern Medical School Class of 2023, who will learn Friday, March 17, where they will take the next step in their careers as physicians. Classmates include a former…
Register now for the 2023 Psychiatry Update Conference
The 2023 UTHealth Houston Psychiatry Update Conference, “Optimizing Clinical Care Using Technology: Clinical Mental Health Care and Digital Psychiatry,” will be held Saturday, April 22, at the Cooley University Life Center (7440 Cambridge St.). Hosted by the Louis A. Faillace,…
Ting wins Mordecai Y.T. Globus New Investigator Award
The American Stroke Association honored Shun-Ming Ting, with the Mordecai Y.T. Globus New Investigator Award. Ting is a PhD candidate at McGovern Medical School and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences….
Orlando honored as ASA Fellow
Barbara Orlando, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Launched in May 2017, the Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists designation…
UTHealth Houston honors ‘STARS’ for their longtime dedication
A chance meeting with Dr. Red Duke helped bring Nachum Dafny, PhD, to the brand-new The University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1972. Dafny was brought on as an assistant professor in neurostructure and function, what is now…