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May 20, 2026

Medical Genetics leaders excel at APHMG

Medical Genetics Associate Professor and Residency Program Director Paul Hillman, MD, PhD; Associate Professor Myla Ashfaq, MS, CGC; and Professor and Division Chief Hope Northrup, MD;  represented McGovern Medical School at this year’s Association of Professors in Human and Medical…


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April 1, 2026

Hillman honored with Early Career Achievement Award

[As featured by the McGovern Medical School Office of Communications, March 9, 2026] The McGovern Medical School Alumni Association and the Office of Alumni Engagement have named Paul Hillman, MD, PhD, Residency ’19, as the recipient of the 2025 Early Career…


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March 26, 2025

A Noble Journey: Grateful Patient Gives Back to Help Others with Rare Diseases

Rylee Noble often watched other kids do cartwheels on the playground, wondering why she couldn’t do the same. She didn’t know that the joint stiffness and muscle aches she felt weren’t normal. “When you don’t know anything else, you don’t…