2024 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award
Congratulations to the 2024 winners of the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards. May is designated as teaching excellence month for McGovern Medical School. Anesthesiology Daniel An, DO Kendra Brown, MD Janefrances Egbosiuba, MD Kristin Falce, MD Michelle Ge, MD John Gray,…
Stenz named outstanding neuroscience student
The Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy has named Emma Stenz, MS4, as the winner of the Outstanding Student in Neuroscience Award. Stenz matched in her area of passion, ophthalmology, and will be a resident physician at the University of Washington…
Kuchel to present Smythe Lecture May 21
McGovern Medical School welcomes George Kuchel, MD, professor of medicine and Travelers Chair in Geriatrics and Gerontology at UConn Health, as the keynote speaker for the 2024 Cheves Smythe Lecture on May 21. The Cheves Smythe Lecture, hosted by the…
McGovern hosts SGEA Conference
McGovern Medical School joined Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas Medical Branch in hosting the 2024 Southern Group on Education Affairs (SGEA) Annual Conference April 11-13 at the Hilton Houston Post Oak by the Galleria. The theme…
Applications open for 2024 Pruessner Scholarship
The Harris County Academy of Family Physicians is accepting applications for the Harold T. Pruessner, MD, Medical Student Scholarship. The deadline to apply is May 31. Applicants must be third-year medical students in good standing and, have completed their family…
ACC President Biga to present Distinguished Speaking Series
American College of Cardiology (ACC) president Cathleen Biga, MSN, FAAC, will speak at UTHealth Houston on May 14 as Cizik School of Nursing celebrates the launch of its new Cardiovascular Advance Practice Series. The UTHealth Houston Office of Faculty Affairs…
Research uses machine learning to distinguish threats
Nearly 100 years after Pavlov first proposed conditioned threat associations, researchers from McGovern Medical School are using machine learning to understand how the brain detects and responds to threats, paving the way to new treatments for fear-based and anxiety disorders….
UTHealth Houston students take part in mass casualty simulation
UTHealth Houston’s Center for Interprofessional Collaboration held its annual large-scale mass casualty simulation Thursday, April 11, an effort to train students in responding to mass casualty incidents. In the exercise, held at the Cooley University Life Center courtyard, employees portrayed…
Novel ELIP research published in Pharmaceutics
Research from the Department of Internal Medicine, published in Pharmaceutics, and titled “Efficient Gene Editing for Heart Disease via ELILP-Based CRISPR Delivery System,” explored a novel approach for efficient gene editing in heart disease treatment through the use of echogenic…
Medical leadership announced for MH-TMC, Children’s
Seven members of the McGovern Medical School faculty have been named to new medical leadership positions at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital. This new structure was developed to serve the growing inpatient services at McGovern’s primary…