Keisha Ray’s book makes Health Affairs top 10 list
A recent Health Affairs reading list shares 10 recommended books about racism and health. Included in the list is Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People’s Health written by Keisha Ray, PhD, John P. McGovern, MD…
Mary Horton receives honor from Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of Houston-Galveston hosted its 2023 Celebration of Service on October 26. During the event, Mary Horton, PhD, MPH, MA, received an award honoring her service as a mentor to students. Horton is core faculty with the…
New article by Christine Wieseler published in the Journal of Philosophy of Disability
Former postdoctoral fellow of the McGovern Center, Christine Wieseler, PhD, has a recent publication published in The Journal of Philosophy of Disability. In the paper, “The Import of Critical Phenomenology for Theorizing Disability,” Wieseler presents the methodological and metaphilosophical issue…
Writing Fellow Bassam Zahid to facilitate local medical narrative workshop
Bassam Zahid, MD is a staff physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at McGovern Medical School and was an inaugural fellow of the McGovern Center’s Writing Fellowship from 2022 to 2023. On Saturday, November 11, Zahid will co-facilitate a…
UTHealth Houston researchers awarded $6.2 million NIH grant to address firearm violence with hospital-based program
Congratulations to Sandy McKay, MD, faculty with McGovern Medical School at co-director of UTHealth Houston’s Quality Enhancement Plan, Healthcare Policy for Health Professionals, which is housed within the McGovern Center for humanities and Ethics A five-year, $6.2 million grant to…
Medical humanities students place in Doctoring 3 Haiku Contest
Faculty for the McGovern Medical School Doctoring Courses hosted a Doctoring 3 Haiku Contest to increase student engagement among second-year medical students participating in the neuroscience courses and curriculum. Interested students submitted an original haiku in the standard 5-7-5 format…
Prisha Jonnalagadda presents poster at Artful Medicine
Rice Humanities student Prisha Jonnalagadda presented a poster at the 2024 Artful Medicine Conference hosted by Missouri Southern State University in October 2023. She worked on a summer scholarship project on the history and evolution of Doctor of Osteopathy schools…
Susan Fenton appointed first Vice Dean for Education at the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
Congratulations to Susan Fenton, PhD, on her new appointment at MSBMI! Fenton is associate faculty of the McGovern Center and a member of UTHealth Houston’s Quality Enhancement Plan steering committee. Professor and Associate Dean for Academics and Curricular Affairs, Susan…
Keisha Ray publishes new article in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Authored by Keisha Ray, PhD, a new article in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry explores “When Black Health, Intersectionality, and Health Equity Meet a Pandemic.” Ray discusses inequities in Black people’s COVID-19 outcomes as an example of why we should…
Keisha Ray receives Dr. Claretta Dupre Award
At the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Keisha Ray, PhD, was awarded the 3rd Annual Dr. Claretta Dupre award. Ray was recognized for her commitment to justice in bioethics by the ASBH Race, Culture,…