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From Kristina Tebo, MD Assistant Vice President, Office of Global Health Initiatives Assistant Dean of Global Health, McGovern Medical School Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Division   The Pediatric Global Health Program recently completed a month-long global health trip to…

NIH funds new program to advance kidney, urologic, and blood research Researchers at UTHealth Houston, in collaboration with scientists across the Texas Medical Center, are leading a collaborative effort to strengthen the pipeline of future researchers in kidney, urologic, and…

UT Physicians creates useful content that helps patients and their families understand their health care, like the article below featuring Professor of Community and General Pediatrics Amalia Guardiola, MD. If there is a topic about which you would like to…

For happenings beyond this month, visit the Events page in SharePoint and extend the “To” date. Bone Disease Program Seminar Series Friday, Nov. 7 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. MSB 2.103 Speaker: Jesús Delgado-Calle, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Cell…

Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, in partnership with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, is among the top five Best Children’s Hospitals in Texas, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospitals rankings. The primary teaching hospital for…

J. Marc Rhoads, MD, and Yuying Liu, PhD, (pictured above with award) received an award from BioGaia in recognition of rigorous science and outstanding results. Maria del Mar Romero López, MD, MS, PhD, has been elected to membership in the Society…

Amalia Guardiola, MD, talked to Univision Houston Channel 45 about fall allergies. Mary Kay Koenig, MD, was quoted in a Science article about the first approved drug for mitochondrial diseases. Dr. Koenig was also a featured guest on the Raise…

New Division Chiefs to AMSPDC Gabriel Anzueto, MD, division chief of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, and Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, MD, PhD, division chief of Allergy and Immunology, joined the 4th Cohort of the Division Director Academy through the Association of Medical…

Presentations Upcoming American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN) at ASN, Nov. 5-9: Joshua Samuels, MD, will moderate a session and speak at a slideless symposium. Rita Swinford, MD, and Joyce Samuel, MD, will give platform presentations. UTHealth Houston is co-hosting…

The 2025 Texas Pediatric Society (TPS) Annual Meeting was held Oct. 16 to 19 at the Kalahari Resort and Convention Center in Round Rock, TX. The largest gathering of pediatricians in Texas, the event was an opportunity to connect with…