The University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Payton Blackburn (middle left) and Mary High (middle right) are the 2024 winners of the Glenda M. Goodine and Thomas J. Murphy Student Award. The award was presented by Thomas Murphy, MD (left) a...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/25/goodine-and-murphy-award-winner/

Photos and text courtesy of Hermann Park Conservancy In honor of Kathrine McGovern, students from McGovern Medical School visited Hermann Park to assist with a variety of gardening projects. Mrs....

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/25/honoring-kathrine-mcgovern/

Graphic by Omar Aguado/Office of Communications Don’t miss the latest edition of Spotlight, featuring Jasmin Cambel, educational programs coordinator III, in the Department of Family and Commu...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/25/spotlight-jasmin-cambel/

UTHealth Houston’s Center for Interprofessional Collaboration held its annual large-scale mass casualty simulation Thursday, April 11, an effort to train students in responding to mass casualty...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/24/uthealth-houston-students-take-part-in-mass-casualty-simulation/

Research from the Department of Internal Medicine, published in Pharmaceutics, and titled “Efficient Gene Editing for Heart Disease via ELILP-Based CRISPR Delivery System,” explored a novel a...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/24/novel-elip-research-published-in-pharmaceutics/

Seven members of the McGovern Medical School faculty have been named to new medical leadership positions at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital. This ...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/24/medical-leadership-announced-for-mh-tmc-childrens/

Arun is just starting the first grade, and it has become apparent that he is experiencing some challenges at school and home. After his new teacher notices his situation is ADHD, she’s able to ...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/23/villareal-koshy-publish-first-childrens-book/

UTHealth Houston Neurosciences will host the Epilepsy Comprehensive Update and Board Review across May 8-9 at the Westin Houston Medical Center (1709 Dryden Rd.). The Epilepsy Comprehensive Updat...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/22/neurosciences-to-host-epilepsy-symposium/

Graphic by Omar Aguado/Office of Communications April is national Sarcoidosis Awareness Month. Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory diseases that is characterized by tiny collections of granulomas in a...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/18/sarcoidosis-awareness-month/

Graphic by Omar Aguado/Office of Communications Don’t miss the latest edition of Spotlight, featuring Willa Wang, senior program manager of research in the Department of Surgery, CeTIR. The ...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/18/spotlight-willa-wang/

Graduating students from the Class of 2024, including those within the scholarly concentration in the humanities, completed artistic pieces as part of their final project or within the Artivism s...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/18/artivism/

David S. Loose, PhD, professor emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, died April 10, 2024. He was 71. He earned his bachelor’s of science degree from the University...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/18/in-memoriam-dr-david-loose/

Barbara E. Murray, MD, J. Ralph Meadows Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, died April 11, 2024. She was 76. A member of the Medical Sch...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/18/in-memoriam-dr-barbara-murray/

The McGovern Medical School Department of Orthopedic Surgery hosts the inaugural UTHealth Houston Spine Symposium in the Memorial Hermann Hospital-Texas Medical Center Hermann Conference Room (64...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/17/spine-symposium-scheduled-for-april-26/

Jacqueline Hecht, PhD, professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry, has been named the 2024 recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award in Craniofaci...

https://med.uth.edu/blog/2024/04/16/hecht-receives-2024-iadr-distinguished-scientist-award/