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Nahid Rianon, MBBS, DrPH, associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Joan and Stanford Alexander Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine of the Department of Internal Medicine, has been named the recipient of the 2022 Leonard Tow…

Casey Crump, MD, PhD, the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, and Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Science and Policy at Mount Sinai will deliver the 2022 Withers Lecture…

May is designated as teaching excellence month for McGovern Medical School. Congratulations to the 2022 Family and Community Medicine Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award Winners: Michael Altman, MD Pedro Aquino, MD Dominique Balla, MD Shira Goldstein, MD Deepa Iyengar, MD Naveen…

2022 Applications for the Pruessner Scholarship are closed. Qualified applicants: Please apply next year. The Harris County Academy of Family Physicians is accepting applications for the Harold T. Pruessner, MD, Medical Student Scholarship. The deadline is May 20. Applicants must be a third-year…

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.

November 2022 We are delighted to announce that Dr. Chermaine Tyler and Dr. Elena Zamora have been awarded fellowships. From Dr. Chermaine Tyler: I’m a psychologist working as assistant professor in Family and Community Medicine. In my clinical role, I…

2022 Pruessner Scholarship winner: Sophie Lin (Baylor College of Medicine) for the $5,000 award and Sarah Weber (UT McGovern) as the runner up for $1,000 award