December 3, 2021
The 2021 recipients of the President’s Awards for Leadership at UTHealth Houston are Cecilia Ganduglia Cazaban, MD, DrPH, assistant professor with UTHealth School of Public Health; Monica K. Guidry, LCSW, ACSW, executive director of the UTHealth Houston Office of Employee Assistance and Well-Being Programs; and Robin Riggs, MSN, RN, senior nurse manager for McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and the Nurse Triage Line at UT Physicians.
December 1, 2021
A secondary analysis of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (Fragile Families) found a bi-directional relationship where a mother’s mental health symptoms impacted the child’s mental health symptoms and vice versa, according to researchers with Cizik School of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
November 30, 2021
Cries for help rang out early Friday morning on Nov. 19 when a natural disaster caused a school bus to crash and topple over. As the scene played out, students from UTHealth Houston rushed into the field to render aid and appropriately triage the victims.
Thankfully, this hurricane and motor vehicle accident was just a mock scenario as part of the sixth UTHealth Houston Center for Interprofessional Collaboration Mass Casualty Incident Simulation.
November 24, 2021
A new clinical trial analyzing whether infusions of two drugs directly into the brain can effectively treat children and adults with recurrent posterior fossa ependymoma, a malignant brain tumor, is now recruiting patients at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
November 19, 2021
SVIN (Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology) 2021-2022 Board of Directors were announced, and representing UTHealth Houston are Alexandra Czap, MD and Sunil Sheth, MD, FSVIN.
November 17, 2021
After premature infants Noah Ordaz and Asher Tate were discharged from the NICU in late 2020, both were followed by Fatima Boricha, MD, at the UT Physicians Pediatric Center Neonatal High Risk Clinic for their continued care and have been developing at a healthy pace ever since.
November 16, 2021
In an effort to address physician burnout, researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) have developed an informatics platform that helps doctors better streamline and manage the care of patients with epilepsy.
November 11, 2021
Today and every day, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) is proud to honor those who have served our country, and currently serve as faculty, staff, and students across the university. Read the stories of some of the many faces of UTHealth Houston and how their role in the military prepared them for their job today.
November 9, 2021
Exposure in utero to a drug used to prevent miscarriage can lead to an increased risk of developing cancer, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
The study was published today in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
November 9, 2021
On a recent early October morning, two students from Cizik School of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) helped hand out food and nutrition education materials to families in an underserved neighborhood in the Westchase district of Houston.
