Kelli Cohen Fein receives award from Baylor College of Medicine
Kelli Cohen Fein, MA, MD, EdD, will receive a Humanitarian Award as part of Baylor College of Medicine’s 2024 Alumni Awards, scheduled for October 17. The award recognizes Fein for making a profound impact through her humanitarian efforts and commitment…
Keisha Ray interviewed by Oprah Daily about IUD insertion pain management
Keisha Ray, PhD, was recently quoted in Oprah Daily in an article titled, “Getting an IUD Doesn’t Have to be Painful. Here’s What Your Doctor May Not Be Telling You.” The article discusses what to expect when considering IUD insertion…
Jessica Wise and Sandy McKay co-author policy report on early childhood education as health and economic policy
Co-authored by Jessica N. Wise, PhD; Katarina Reyes, MEd; and Sandy McKay, MD, FAAP, the policy report, “The Case for Early Childhood Education as Health and Economic Policy” was recently published by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. The…
Marianne Florian, PhD
Marianne Florian joined the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics as a postdoctoral fellow in Fall 2024.
Pritha Bhattacharyya, PhD
Pritha Bhattacharyya is a Bengali-American fiction writer, poet, teacher, and reader. Her work appears in The Southern Review, Ecotone, Ninth Letter, Nashville Review, Bodega, Apogee Journal, and elsewhere and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She completed her fiction…
Emily Barr, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC, CNM, ACRN, FACNM, FAAN
Emily Barr is Assistant Professor (research tenure track) at Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston in the Department of Research, where she joined as faculty in January 2022. Barr grew up in Rochester, NY, and completed her bachelor’s of…
Lilit A. Sargsyan, MD
Lilit A. Sargsyan, is assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at McGovern Medical School. She is the Associate Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program and Medical Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratory at Memorial Hermann…
GME in Humanities & Ethics graduate publishes piece in Pediatric Research
Vaishali Harne, MBBS, recently published, “‘Stickers’—A pediatric resident’s experience with loss” in Pediatric Research. The piece began as a journal entry by Harne written during the Graduate Medical Education in Humanities and Ethics (GME in H&E) program, offered by the McGovern…
Keisha Ray elected to ASBH Board
Congratulations are in order for McGovern Professor of Oslerian Medicine and Associate Faculty with the McGovern Center, Keisha Ray, PhD, who was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). Ray’s term…
Keisha Ray selected for ASBH Board and Nominating Committee
Congratulations to Keisha Ray, PhD, who was newly elected to the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Board and Nominating Committee. Ray will begin her term on the ASBH Board of Directors following the 2024 Annual Meeting in St….