Harris honors Vietnamese legacy at Arts & Resilience
The McGovern Medical School Center for Humanities and Ethics welcomed Brandon Tho Harris to present the second installment of the Arts & Resilience Program, Nov. 10, via Cisco Webex. A Houston-area native, Harris is a child of war refugees from…
Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration has a new director
Keisha Ray, PhD, has been named the new Director of the Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration. Dr. Ray is Assistant Professor with the McGovern Center and took over the program’s reins as of November 1. Dr. Ray’s new role follows the…
Arts & Resilience presentation by Laura Spector discussed in McGovern news
The McGovern Medical School Center for Humanities and Ethics marked the return of its Arts & Resilience program with a virtual performance from performance and video artist Laura Spector, Sept. 22. Spector, who began her work as an artist in…
Arts & Resilience series returns this Fall
The John P. McGovern, MD, Center for Humanities and Ethics presents the return of its Arts & Resilience Program as a four-part virtual series beginning Sept. 22. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, each session will be hosted live via…
Humanities graduates celebrated at virtual banquet
The McGovern Center’s 14th Annual Graduation Banquet was held virtually to honor the graduates of the Clinical Humanities Certificate Program at the School of Dentistry and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration at McGovern Medical School. Seven graduates from dentistry and 19…
Erin Foster treats McGovern Medical School to Middle Eastern music
Foster dazzles Arts & Resilience with Middle Eastern music Written by: Roman Petrowski, Office of Communications Houston musician Erin Foster treated McGovern Medical School students, faculty, and staff to the sounds of the qanun and “Middle Eastern Music” as part…
Stephanie Gustafson plays harp for Arts & Resilience
Arts & Resilience features Gustafson on harp Written by: Roman Petrowski, Office of Communications Harpist Stephanie Gustafson treated McGovern Medical School students, faculty, and staff to an afternoon of classical harp music at the January edition of the Arts &…
John Egan brings the blues
Cross-posted from Scoop Arts and Resilience: Winter blues sets in Written by: Darla Brown The Arts and Resilience Program brought the winter blues to McGovern Medical School at UTHealth with John Egan, who serenaded the audience with his toe-tapping yet…
Medical humanities students named fellows
Seven students from McGovern Medical School were named recently as members of the 2019-2020 class of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston Galveston. Among the students, who are developing and implementing yearlong mentored service projects, four are also members of the…
Zydeco music the star of Arts & Resilience
Cross-posted from Scoop Arts & Resilience features zydeco Written by: Roman Petrowski, Office of Communications Robert “Raa-Raa” Carter treated McGovern Medical School students, faculty, and staff to an afternoon filled with the sounds of Southern Louisiana’s zydeco music for November’s edition…