Center for Global Health introduces Global Thinkers blog
The McGovern Medical School Center for Global Health has introduced Global Thinkers, a student-led blog that seeks to explore, educate, and discuss pertinent global health issues in the current climate. The blog is the latest effort from the center to…
Classes of 2024, 2025 to receive white coats
The McGovern Medical School classes of 2024 and 2025 will receive their white coats in a pair of ceremonies May 5 and 6 at Wendel D. Ley Track & Holloway Field on the campus of Rice University. The Class of…
2022 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the 2022 winners of the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards. May is designated as teaching excellence month for McGovern Medical School. Anesthesiology Daniel An, DO Stephanie Bradley, MD Lauren Brollier, MD Staci Cameron, MD Johanna de Haan, MD Kristin…
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…