UT PHYSICIANS, the clinical practice of McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), teamed up with Habitat for Humanity to build a home for a local family. UT Physicians is the title sponsor for KPRC’s Habitat for Humanity Home Build in 2020.
KAITLYN EATON, an elite wheelchair
basketball athlete who had several surgeries
at Shriners Hospitals for Children – Houston
and played on the TIRR Memorial Hermann
Junior Hotwheels Team, is one of 12 athletes
selected to the 2020 U.S. Paralympic Women’s
Wheelchair Basketball Team. Eaton and her
teammates will compete in the Paralympic
Games in Tokyo this summer.
TOM LUBY, PH.D., director of Texas
Medical Center Innovation, speaks at the
Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge,
held at TMCx in February. Capital Rx, a company that has created a way to simplify drug
pricing, won the challenge, which honors new
approaches and solutions to health care.
AMY McGUIRE, J.D., PH.D., the Leon
Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and
director of the Center for Medical Ethics and
Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine,
has been elected as one of 12 new Hastings
Center Fellows.
MARGARET GOODELL, PH.D., chair of
the department of molecular and cellular
biology at Baylor College of Medicine, has
received the Tobias Lecture Award by the
International Society for Stem Cell Research.
PETER HOTEZ, M.D., PH.D., dean of
the National School of Tropical Medicine at
Baylor College of Medicine, was awarded the
Ronald McDonald House Charities Award
of Excellence during a ceremony at the Field
Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
TIRR MEMORIAL HERMANN unveiled
a new sports court for patients, families and
employees. Located on the hospital’s Texas
Medical Center campus, the court accommodates therapy, recreation and other activities.
MELODIE FRENCH, PH.D., a Rice University geologist and assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, has earned a CAREER Award, a five-year National Science Foundation grant for $600,000 to support her investigation of the tectonic roots of earthquakes and tsunamis.
REKHA LAKSHMANAN, MHA, director
of Advocacy and Policy for The Immunization
Partnership, has been appointed a contributing expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute
for Public Policy-Center for Health and
Biosciences.
The John S. Dunn Heliport is part of the
new Susan and Fayez Sarofim Pavilion, a renovation and expansion of MEMORIAL
HERMANN-TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER. The
17-story tower is the new home of the Red
Duke Trauma Institute.
HARDEEP SINGH, M.D., MPH, chief of the
health policy, quality & informatics program
at the Center for Innovations in Quality,
Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E.
DeBakey VA Medical Center and professor of
medicine-health services research at Baylor
College of Medicine, has been appointed to
the Patient Safety Measures of Hospital Harm
Technical Expert Panel for the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services.
VINCENT H. TAM, PHARM.D., professor at the University of Houston College
of Pharmacy, was honored with the 2019
Literature Award for Sustained Contributions
by the American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists Foundation.
TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL hosted
a celebration that included a screech owl and
a rabbit from the Houston Zoo. The special
event for patients, families, hospital staff and
invited guests launched the debut of San
Diego Zoo Kids, a closed-circuit television
adventure channel at Texas Children’s
Hospital and RONALD McDONALD HOUSE HOUSTON.
Pearl Hospitality unveiled the WESTIN
HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER, a historic
mid-century modern building that has been
transformed into a 382,000 square-foot luxury
wellness hotel with a curated art program and
a pool terrace and rooftop bar overlooking
Rice University and the Texas Medical Center.
MEHDI RAZAVI, M.D., director of electrophysiology clinical research and innovations
at Texas Heart Institute, has been elected
Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
XIANG “SHAWN” ZHANG, PH.D.,
professor in the Lester and Sue Smith Breast
Center at Baylor College of Medicine and a
McNair Scholar, is one of two clinical investigators to win Stand Up To Cancer's 2020
Laura Ziskin Prize in Translational Research.