McGovern Center seeks Assistant Professor to focus on writing, narrative medicine
The McGovern Center is accepting applications for Assistant Professor, Non-Tenure-Track (Education). The faculty role is expected to lead and expand the Center’s current writing and narrative medicine programs for health professional trainees at all career levels. The position is expected…
Pritha Bhattacharyya publishes new story in The Kenyon Review
Postdoctoral fellow and McGovern Center-Inprint Writer-in-Residence Pritha Bhattacharyya, PhD, recently published a new story in The Kenyon Review. The story, “The Trouble with Brown People,” is a play on the famous Raymond Carver story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About…
Nathan Carlin’s latest book released
The Secularization of Medicine, authored by Nathan Carlin, PhD, was recently released by Oxford University Press. The book explores the often-overlooked religious dimensions of modern medicine. It is available through the publisher and on websites like Amazon.
Submissions open for Human Ties Digest issue, Kaleidoscope
Human Ties Digest will return with its next issue in Spring 2026. The call for submissions is now open for original written or visual works. Submissions will be accepted through January 25, 2026, at the link or QR code below….
Postdoctoral fellowship alum publishes new article
We are proud to share that our former postdoctoral fellow, Margarita Ortiz, JD, MA, has just published a thought-provoking article in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, titled “Parental Authority and the Weight of Assent: Navigating Moral Dilemmas in Adolescent End-of-Life…
Joelle Robertson-Preidler awarded for teaching excellence
Joelle Robertson-Preidler, PhD, was named one of the recipients of the 2025 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards at McGovern Medical School. Congratulations to Dr. Robertson-Preidler and her commitment to outstanding education.
Writing Fellow alum, Emily Barr, publishes in Arts & Health
Emily Barr, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC, CNM, ACRN, FACNM, FAAN, recently published “Trust in the Patient-Provider Relationship: An Arts-based Research Film Exploring Trust in Adolescents and Young Adults with HIV,” in Arts & Health. The work is based on a film…
Keisha Ray recognized at luncheon for endowed professors
The 2025 Faculty Endowment Luncheon was held in early May to recognize UTHealth Houston’s exemplary educators, practitioners, and researchers appointed to endowed faculty positions between November 2022 and March 2025. Keisha Ray, PhD, is the holder of the John P….
18th Annual Humanities Banquet honors graduating students
The John P. McGovern, MD, Center for Humanities and Ethics celebrated the graduates of the Clinical Humanities Certificate Program and the Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration at the 18th Annual Humanities Graduation Banquet, April 10 in the Fifth Floor Gallery. Special…
New Human Ties student editors named
Congratulations to McGovern Medical Students Brandon Ba, Ashna Karpe, and Jenny Li-Wang, who have been selected as the new student editors for Human Ties. The humanities-focused publication is student-led, under the direction of writer-in-residence and postdoctoral fellow Pritha Bhattacharyya, PhD,…