Art Wall features work by medical students
Graduating students from the Class of 2024 completed artistic pieces as part of their final projects in the Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration or within the “Artivism” sub-elective taught as part of the fourth-year course, Humanistic Elements of Medicine.
Angela Gomez named web manager and executive committee member with AERA division
Angela Gomez, EdD, MBA, MS, is now the Web Manager of Division D – Measurement and Research Methodologies of the American Educational Research Association. Following a one-year appointment as Assistant Manager, Gomez will oversee email and web communications among the…
STAT interviews Keisha Ray about new CMS guidelines
Keisha Ray, PhD, McGovern Professor of Oslerian Medicine and Associate Professor with the McGovern Center, was recently interviewed by STAT. The interview focused on new CMS guidelines on pelvic exams on anesthetized patients. Ray noted that while students should have…
Writing Fellow alum, Lilit Sargsyan, publishes poem in The Pharos
A recent poem written by Lilit Sargsyan, MD, titled “Twenty-Fours,” was published in The Pharos, the AOA quarterly magazine. Sargsyan is participated in the inaugural cohort of the McGovern Center’s Writing Fellowship for Health Professionals during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Anson Koshy invited as visiting professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Anson Koshy, MD, MBE, has been invited as a Visiting Virtual Professor for the Health Humanities and Health Systems Science Distinction Tracks: Generating a Guild of Authentic Citizens in Healthcare. This interprofessional program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine focuses…
2024 Karff Award Winners selected
The McGovern Center is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Karff Awards. These awards are given to graduating seniors at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. These awards are made possible through the Samuel Karff Chair, which is…
Anson Koshy publishes essay in Pastoral Psychology
McGovern Center faculty Anson Koshy, MD, MBE, published a paper in Pastoral Psychology. The piece, “Decalcomania and Anticipatory Aesthetics: Envisioning Days of Future Past,” is an essay about the power of visual work of art to create opportunities for self-reflection,…
Keisha Ray quoted in The New York Times
A recent article in The New York Times,” discusses “Sexism in Medicine? It’s Not ‘All in Her Head.’“. McGovern Center associate professor, Keisha Ray, PhD, was interviewed about racism and sexism in clinical care.
McGovern Center members present at Shine Academy conference
The University of Texas System Kenneth I. Shine, MD, Academy of Health Science Education hosted the 2024 Innovations in Health Science Education Conference in Austin, TX, from February 22 to 23. Several members of the McGovern Center presented at the…
New National Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry Launched
Marking the launch of a National Collaborative on Humanities and Ethics in Dentistry was the February 13 presentation, “Everything Comes Alive with Cherry Pie: Stories of Life at the End of Life,” by Marcia Brennan, PhD. Brennan is the Carolyn…