Keisha Ray selected for Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award
Congratulations to Keisha Ray, PhD, who has been selected as a recipient of the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award for 2025-2026! Dr. Ray and fellow recipients will be honored at the Celebration of Teaching Excellence reception on June 16, 2026, at…
Winners announced for the first ever McGovern Center Writing Awards in Fiction
The McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics is excited to announce the winners and runners-up of our Inaugural Writing Awards in Fiction, selected by final judge and author, Dr. Novuyo Tshuma! Winners and Runners-Up will be published in the Journal…
Forum to spotlight health policy education initiatives April 30
A campuswide initiative to strengthen how future clinicians understand and engage with health policy will be highlighted this spring during a hybrid forum at UTHealth Houston. “From Curriculum to Enculturation: Building Healthcare Policy Education for Health Professionals” is scheduled from…
2026 Karff Chair Awards announced
The McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics (McGovern Center) is pleased to announce the 2026 Karff Chair Awards winners. These are given to graduating seniors at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. These awards are made possible through the Samuel…
Arts & Resilience event to feature Adam J. Ivey
The McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics and Baylor College of Medicine are pleased to present “Music and Medicine: A Live Performance with Adam J. Ivey” as part of the Arts & Resilience Lecture Series. This event features Adam J….
OffScript: Stories from the Heart of Medicine event to celebrate 10 years
The next Off Script: Stories from the Heart of Medicine event will be held on Saturday, April 18, 2026, from 6:30 – 8:00 pm at the Brazos Bookstore. Off Script is a live storytelling event featuring stories by doctors, medical…
Keisha Ray to give keynote at health humanities conference
Tenured associate professor, Keisha Ray, PhD, will be a keynote speaker for the 2026 Health Humanities Consortium Conference. Dr. Ray’s talk is titled, “Narrating Health Justice for New and Old Problems.” The conference will be held in Indianapolis, IN, from April…
McGovern Center faculty publish paper in the Journal of the American College of Dentists
Members of the McGovern Center recently published a paper on the Dental Clinical Humanities Certificate Program, describing an evaluation study based on exit surveys of graduating students, reflections on the program’s future, and considerations for the field of dental humanities….
McGovern Center reaches from Lebanon to Hawaii with new program
The McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics successfully launched its Medical Humanities Workforce Training Program for Physicians with its first intensive weekend event Jan. 17 at the Ensemble Theatre in Houston. The Medical Humanities Workforce Training Program is a 24-month…
Nathan Carlin to give talks on his book, The Secularization of Medicine
McGovern Center director and professor Reverend Nathan Carlin, PhD, will give presentations related to his latest book, The Secularization of Medicine. The first invited talk is at Austin College as part of the Department of Religious Studies’ annual Allen-Head lecture…