UTHealth Houston Honors Cindy Ivanhoe, MD

May 23, 2023

Text adapted from author Roman Petrowski, Office of Communications
April 20, 2023

Women Faculty Forum McGovern Excellence Award Winners
Jordan Lake, MD, MSc; Lesley Osborn, MD; Cindy Ivanhoe, MD; and Anna Konovalova, PhD; are the winners of the 2022-23 McGovern Excellence Awards. (Photo by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications)

The UTHealth Houston Women Faculty Forum honored professor Dr. Cindy Ivanhoe with its 2022-2023 John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Excellence Award. Dr. Ivanhoe was one of four winners selected for outstanding contributions made by women faculty at the Medical School. Awards are given to two senior faculty members and two junior faculty members and are judged on research, clinical, and educational activities.

Cindy Ivanhoe, MD, clinical professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, is the winner of the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Distinguished Faculty Award from the Women Faculty Forum – Clinical Service.

Ivanhoe is the director of Spasticity and Associated Syndromes of Movement (SPASM) program at TIRR Memorial Hermann, where she has served since returning in 2020. She has been named among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Doctors since 2009 and Best Doctors in America since 2007. In 2016, Ivanhoe won the Distinguished Clinical Award from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

UTHealth Houston’s original press release can be found here.