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  • McGovern students learn the Art of Observation
  • Nathan Carlin named director of the McGovern Center
  • Coauthored paper by Keisha Ray discusses cases of racially concordant care
  • Keisha Ray featured in Café Bioethics podcast
  • Coauthored paper on autonomy by Colin Goodman and Timothy Houk accepted for publication
  • McGovern Center congratulates Angela Polczynski
  • Arts & Resilience series returns this Fall
  • Keisha Ray elected to ASBH Nominating Committee
  • Keisha Ray quoted in new Science article
  • Keisha Ray discusses race education in undergraduate dental programs
  • Environmental injustice at center of new essay by Keisha Ray
  • Rolling Stone interviews Keisha Ray about vaccine incentives
  • Anson Koshy featured in campus piece about art and being a well-rounded physician
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Human Ties Digest

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Issue #3
  • Today!, 3pm #ASBH21 https://t.co/hXHTi4w3CQ   October 15, 2021 @ 4:42 pm
  • See this short video to see some historical footage of the Texas Medical Center. https://t.co/yjwnWPbOmn   October 14, 2021 @ 7:35 pm
  • Tomorrow, 3PM! See Center faculty Nathan Carlin and @DrKeishaRay with co-panelists @LiseSaffran and Abraham Nussbau… https://t.co/0HBdZPN2dF   October 14, 2021 @ 3:19 pm
  • Updated September information about the COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/0WTN7uXxtf   October 13, 2021 @ 6:44 pm
  • RT @McGovernHRC: We have candy, Andy and other goodies from the archives. Come by @thetmclibrary and see us till 1pm! #AskAnArchivist #AskA…   October 13, 2021 @ 5:15 pm
  • Maria Hernandez, UT Physicians registered nurse shares her family's COVID-19 vaccination story in "Our COVID-19 vac… https://t.co/Ez0jMa3L73   October 13, 2021 @ 4:19 pm
  • RT @WHO: Thank you, Henrietta Lacks! Today @DrTedros honoured Henrietta Lacks posthumously with a WHO Director-General’s award, acknowledgi…   October 13, 2021 @ 4:17 pm
  • Tomorrow! See Center faculty @DrKeishaRay, Baylor College of Medicine's @FaithEFletcher, UT's @VirginiaABrown, and… https://t.co/OMjwI9shlQ   October 13, 2021 @ 4:15 pm
  • RT @LiseSaffran: My chapter looks at When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi through the lens of craft—what do the choices the writer mad…   October 12, 2021 @ 5:01 pm
  • RT @DrKeishaRay: My chapter is on Damon Tweedy's "Black Man in A White Coat." @DamonTweedyMD   October 12, 2021 @ 4:40 pm
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