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. In the June episode of the Well Connected podcast, Alejandro Chaoul, PhD, scholar, researcher, author, teacher, and educator, demystifies the practice of meditation and offers practical…
Keisha Ray featured in Cell
The latest issue of Cell features an article, “What does Juneteenth mean in STEMM?” a collaborative work by Black scientists in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Keisha Ray, PhD, was one of the authors and shared an important…
Two medical humanities students named Schweitzer Fellows
The McGovern Center extends its congratulations to Sanjay Neerukonda and Bryana Stigers, both rising second-year students who are also members of the Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration. Also mentioned are Patricia Marie Guzman, Isabel Kilroy, and Sanjna Tripathy who recently graduated…