Emergency Medicine research helps mitigate disparities in access to life-saving care
The connections between health and disparities are increasingly coming into focus, with two recently published papers from the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Texas Emergency Medicine Research Center. Both retrospective studies review disparities in access to life-saving cardiac resuscitation in Texas…
UTMOVE program receives Distinguished Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders
UTHealth Houston’s Movement Disorders and Neurodegenerative Diseases Fellowship Training Program (UTMOVE fellowship program) has been chosen by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) as one of eight international academic centers to train a new movement disorder clinician-researcher…
Northrup named SRNT fellow
The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco has named Thomas Northrup, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, as a member of its 2022 Fellowship class. The status of Fellow of the SRNT is a…
4th annual Stroke Survivors and Caregivers Conference May 27
The Texas Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Council, in partnership with UTHealth Houston and the SouthEast Texas Regional Advisory Council announces the fourth annual Stroke Survivors and Caregivers Conference, named Texas Stroke Conference: Stroke Recovery in 2022, on May 27. The…
Commencement set for May 13 at Minute Maid Park
McGovern Medical School will see 226 students cross the stage at the 2022 UTHealth Houston Commencement Ceremony May 13 at Minute Maid Park. The university will celebrate its graduates at two ceremonies with three school participating in each event. Joining…
Soto receives $13 million NIH grant
A five-year, $13 million grant to study how certain infectious agents evolve to spread chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been awarded to a UTHealth Houston research team led by Claudio Soto, PhD, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Soto, principal investigator…
Research details role of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease
Since the federal government created the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease in 2011, increased attention and research funding have targeted Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The Center for Perioperative Medicine broadened its scope to include Alzheimer’s disease and dementia…
Humanities and Ethics offers writing fellowship
In August 2022, the John P. McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics will debut a new program for Writing Fellows designed to help health care professionals in the Houston area seeking an avenue to write memoirs or creative nonfiction and…
2022 promotions, tenure seminar set
The Office of Administration and Faculty Affairs will hold its annual Faculty Promotion & Tenure Seminar, from noon until 1:30 p.m., May 4 in MSB 3.001 and via Cisco Webex. The online meeting number is 2623 991 6770 and the…
Choi awarded $1.6 million NIH grant
A three-year, $1.6 million grant to identify patients at risk for a serious secondary neurological complication that can arise after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) has been awarded to H. Alex Choi, MD, associate professor in the Vivian L. Smith Department of…