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…


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…