Alumni Day
This Thursday, August 29th is Alumni Day. We’re excited to welcome all alumni to join us and catch up with old friends. Your residency has grown exponentially thanks to your contributions, and we’d like to show it off. Location: MSB…
Introducing Dr. Keegan Tupchong
The Department of Emergency Medicine continues to grow with more wonderful faculty members. We’re excited to introduce Dr. Keegan Tupchong who is amazingly fellowship-trained in both ultrasound and critical care. Dr. Tupchong is originally from Toronto, Canada. He went to…
Walk With Our Docs
The Walk with a Doc program was started by Dr. David Sabgir, a cardiologist in Columbus, Ohio as a way to join his patients in a simple, and healthy activity. His first event had over one hundred attendees, all energized…
McGovern Med EM co-author Myths in Emergency Medicine
Congratulations to our faculty co-authors Drs. Dan Ostermayer and Ben Cooper (and chapter authors Giordano, Fadial, Lesnick, Patel, Stephens, Ugalde, Waller-Delarosa, and Witkov) on the publication of their latest book “Myths in Emergency Medicine”. This book was a huge team…
Dr. Lesley Osborn named Medical Director of Life Flight®
The Red Duke Trauma Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center announced two new leaders for the Memorial Hermann Life Flight® program including Lesley Osborn, MD – Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth…
HEROES in Houstonia
The Houston Emergency Opioid Engagement System (HEROES) program, directed by James Langabeer, PhD and Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD work closely with faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine to help Houstonians with opioid use disorder through engagement in treatment, recovery and…
Welcome, Class of 2022
Tempering the sadness of watching the amazing class of 2019 graduate is the opportunity to welcome an equally amazing new class. These twenty physicians come from around the country bringing their diverse experiences and passion for exceptional clinical care to…
Class of 2019 Graduation
Congratulations to the class of 2019 who graduated from the McGovern Med Emergency Medicine residency program on June 27th. Pictured from left-to-right: * Catie Reynolds, M.D. Kurt Lucas, M.D. Cody Dornhecker, M.D. Noah Kugielsky, M.D. Soa-Yih Sher, M.D. Nikhil Patel,…
Dr. Ben Bobrow joins Emergency Medicine as Chair
Following a national search, Dean Barbara J. Stoll has named Bentley J. Bobrow, MD, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, effective June 1, 2019. Bobrow joins McGovern Medical School from the University of Arizona College of Medicine, where he…
Dr. Sharma awarded 2019 Think Innovation Transformation Award
Congratulations to Dr. Kunal Sharma for winning the 2019 Think Innovation Transformation Award on April 4, 2019 at the 5th Annual Harris Health System Innovation Summit. We couldn’t be more proud of him and all the work he has done at LBJ…