September 2, 2022
Katherine Loveland, PhD, with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, received a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to train psychology interns in substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD) trauma, and telehealth with underserved communities.
August 31, 2022
The rate of underrepresented in medicine (URiM) women in the pediatric field have significantly increased, but the rates have remained stagnant and decreased in Black men, according to researchers with UTHealth Houston.
August 23, 2022
A proposed School of Behavioral Health Sciences at UTHealth Houston would create an unprecedented pipeline for health care workers in mental health specialties to provide critical services for Texans.
August 16, 2022
Hoping to achieve different goals, two recent high school graduates joined this year's BRAINS Lab Summer Research Program cohort at McGovern Medical School.
August 10, 2022
August is National Immunization Awareness Month, which is held to observe the importance and need for education about vaccines.
August 1, 2022
Neel Mutyala, an MD/MBE candidate at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, has been appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott as a student regent to The University of Texas System.
July 29, 2022
Following a national search for a permanent dean of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, John F. Hancock, MA, MB, BChir, PhD, ScD, has accepted the position to lead the school as executive dean and H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professor in the Medical Sciences, effective Sept. 1, 2022.
July 29, 2022
Patrick Kellam never thought he would become a surgeon, let alone an orthopedic surgeon, just like his father. But on July 21, he was side by side with his dad as they performed two surgeries together for the first time.
June 29, 2022
Along with educating students, residents, and fellows in the most advanced lifesaving therapies on Earth, UTHealth Houston Department of Emergency Medicine is helping to prepare members of the Polaris Dawn crew to handle medical emergencies in space. The Department of Emergency Medicine, which has been training NASA astronauts in emergency medical care for more than 10 years, recently welcomed Polaris Dawn’s medical officer Anna Menon and mission specialist Sarah Gillis for a week-long space medicine training session.
June 7, 2022
A state-of-the-art mobile simulation training unit designed to enhance high-level adult and pediatric emergency medicine care is coming to UTHealth Houston.