McGovern Center welcomes two new members
July marked growth at the McGovern Center with the addition of Joelle Robertson-Preidler, PhD, MA, and Alejandro Zapata, BA. Robertson-Preidler is Assistant Professor and joins the Center’s faculty in teaching students of McGovern Medical School. Her interests include effective communication,…
Angela Gomez, Rachel Jantea, and Francine Snow win 2nd place for poster
The 2023 UTHealth Houston Advances in Teaching & Learning Day was held on Friday, July 28. As part of the university’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), co-director and Center faculty Angela Gomez, EdD presented two posters—one on the Virtual Interprofessional Policy…
Keisha Ray interviewed by STAT for piece about Henrietta Lacks settlement
A recent article in STAT discusses the Henrietta Lacks settlement reached between Lacks’ family and Thermo Fisher Scientific for the use of Lacks’ cells without her consent 70 years ago. In the piece, “Henrietta Lacks Settlement Hailed by Experts as…
QEP Forum welcomes Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan
Discover how health care policy impacts the world’s largest biomedical library and the center of biomedical informatics and computational biology in the next UTHealth Houston Health Policy Forum, part of the university’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). Save the date for…
McGovern Center issues policy on AI generative tools
It is impossible to avoid the growing landscape of articles and news coverage about the rise of AI generative tools like ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Bard, and more. In response to concerns about cheating and plagiarism, many higher education institutions have…
Keisha Ray interviewed about her book, Black Health
Keisha Ray, PhD, was interviewed about her book, Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People’s Health, by Claire Clark, PhD, MPH. The interview appears in New Books Network.
Anson Koshy’s artwork appears in Pulse
Lifesaver is an artistic piece by Anson Koshy, MD, MBE, and appears in Pulse this month. In the artwork, Koshy depicts himself on a raft of sensitivity, unbothered by challenges found in modern healthcare, such as burnout, administrative burden, and…
Writing Fellows share their work at special reading event
On Friday, June 16, six fellows of the McGovern Center’s inaugural class of the Writing Fellowship shared their work in a special reading event held in the McGovern Medical School Leather Lounge. Readings were presented by Emily Barr, PhD, RN,…
Center core and associate faculty present on Healthcare Policy for Health Professionals
Healthcare Policy for Health Professionals (HP2), UTHealth Houston’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), was shared at the 2023 TEACH-S Educational Symposium. The symposium was held on Wednesday, June 14 at the Tilman J. Fertitta College of Medicine at the University of…
Alejandro Chaoul discusses practice of meditation in latest Well Connected podcast
Alejandro Chaoul, PhD, is adjunct faculty with the McGovern Center and leads Monday Meditations. He appears in Episode 18: Reconnecting Our Mind and Body of the UTHealth Houston Well Connected podcast. In the June 2023 episode of the Well Connected…