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  • Barratt wins Distinguished Faculty Award in Professionalism
  • Flores named Geriatric Society Fellow
  • Arts & Resilience returns with Lanecia Rouse Tinsley
  • Ray, Sharrief win McGovern DEI Awards
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  • QEP team members win award at 2023 Innovations conference
  • Quality Enhancement Plan featured at 2023 Innovation in Health Science Education conference
  • Angela Gomez named co-director of Quality Enhancement Plan
  • Arts & Resilience welcomes author Samuel Shem
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Human Ties Digest

Hope Amidst Uncertainty

Issue #4
  • Professor Keisha Ray’s new book is now available for purchase! Get your copy of “Black Health.”… https://t.co/GNJ9lUrLXD   March 31, 2023 @ 3:30 pm
  • Listen to @DrKeishaRay contemplate what living forever might mean for our relationships, the environment, and the w… https://t.co/xC8xoIbkuM   March 27, 2023 @ 6:56 pm
  • RT @ZeringueMarshal: Coming soon from Oxford University Press: Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black Peop…   March 24, 2023 @ 4:31 pm
  • RT @McGovernMed: Congratulations to Renee Flores, MD, on being named to the 2023 Class of Fellows for the American Geriatric Society! #McGo…   March 24, 2023 @ 12:27 am
  • @McGovernMed students in the Health Systems and Safety Net Care blue book elective end the course with fieldwork an… https://t.co/3Osugr4Sxv   March 23, 2023 @ 9:01 pm
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