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UTMB’s Center for Health and Clinical Outcomes Research (H-COR) hosted a Works-in-Progress session on Merative MarketScan—what claims data can answer, what it can’t, and what the Atlas package may add (labs, dental, mortality, surveys). utmb.us/f56
February 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Sharing a session from UTMB’s Health Systems Science & Community Service (HSS) course series (open to all):
Healthcare in the 21st Century — Wed, Feb 11 | 12–1 p.m. | Levin Hall 3.324
Featuring Carole Tucker, PT, PhD and Salim Hayek, MD. Light lunch served.
Register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
February 6, 2026 at 3:52 PM
🌟 Meet UTMB’s new Director of Wellness, Julie Griffith, MPH!
She brings leadership experience from Texas Children’s Hospital and a passion for creating healthy, thriving workplaces.
Full announcement: https://utmb.us/f0n
Julie Griffith Named AE Director of Wellness
I am excited to share that we have named a Director of Wellness for the Academic Enterprise. Please join me in welcoming Julie Griffith, MPH, who will begin her new role at UTMB on Jan. 20, 2026.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:27 AM
VentureX & The Biotech Boom: Lessons in Innovation Strategy for HBCUs from UTMB’s Institutional Pivot

"HBCUs receive less than 1% of NIH research funding. The reasons range from grant-writing disparities and institutional size, to deeper systemic racism in peer review and proposal evaluation."
VentureX & The Biotech Boom: Lessons in Innovation Strategy for HBCUs from UTMB’s Institutional Pivot
The Black HealthTech Innovation Summit is not just a conference—it’s a declaration. A declaration that HBCU scientists, students, and financial leaders refuse to be spectators in the trillion-dolla…
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January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Hear from inaugural chair Dr. Mandy Hill on UTMB’s Department of Population Health and Health Disparities and our focus on improving the health of populations through multidisciplinary research and education.

Visit the department page to learn more utmb.us/exs
January 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Tomorrow (Jan. 14, 12–1 p.m.) webinar hosted through UTMB’s HSS course series, open to all. HIV Routine Screening as a Standard Care featuring Isabel Clark, MA, RD.
www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi...
Learn more about the HSS course utmb.us/ezl
January 13, 2026 at 7:52 PM
UTMB’s Center for Health and Clinical Outcomes Research (H-COR) launched its Works-in-Progress Seminar Series with Daniel Jupiter, PhD (Neurology) on diabetes, dementia, and lower-extremity amputation—and a Q&A that strengthened the project’s direction. utmb.us/eys
January 7, 2026 at 9:32 PM
What if life-saving treatments could reach patients faster by rethinking what we already have?

That’s the focus of new NIAID-funded research led by #UTMB’s Dr. Bin Gong and Dr. Yuejin Liang, exploring FDA-approved therapies to combat lethal rickettsial infections.

#MedicalResearch #MedEd #MedSky
January 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Imagine your medical training taking you beyond one hospital or one country.

UTMB’s Global Health Scholarly Concentration equips students to understand global disease, culture, and care, and apply it where impact matters most. 🌍

#UTMB #GlobalHealth #MedEd #MedSky
December 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
.@utmbhealth.bsky.social's Biocontainment Care Unit team serves as the HHS Region 6 RESPTC. At this year’s Annual Workshop, hosted by the UTMB SPECTRE program, Julie Stefanick and Melissa Massey led an interactive session focused on teamwork, communication, and readiness.
November 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Now accepting nominations for the 2026 Roberto Logroño, MD Award and Lectureship for Professionalism in Healthcare at UTMB. One award will recognize a faculty member and one will recognize a student/fellow/trainee across UTMB’s five schools.
Packets are due January 2, 2026.
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We’re pleased to share that Dr. Cheng Huang, Assistant Professor of Research in Pathology at UTMB’s John Sealy School of Medicine, has been awarded a 5-year NIAID grant for his project on the role of NP Exoribonuclease in Lassa virus infection. #MedEd #MedSky #NIAID
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join Stephen at the UTMB's ETC race - a 15km blast with over 1,200m of climb straight up the Italian Alps. From kit check to the summit of La Suche, this film captures the raw beauty, effort, and emotion of one of UTMB Week’s most intense mountain races.

#running #utmb #trailrunning
UTMB ETC 2025 – 15km of Pure Pain and Beauty in the Alps | Courmayeur
YouTube video by Film My Run
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November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
How can we better support clinical educators? UTMB’s Era Buck, Flavio M. Monteiro & Kimberly Turner explored that question in the SGEA Newsletter feature “Beyond Reflection: Using the Clinician Educator Milestones in Faculty Development.” Read more: utmb.us/erf
#UTMB #MedicalEducation #MedEd #MedSky
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Our faculty video series continues with part 2 featuring Dr. Brian Downer. He explains UTMB’s Rehabilitation Sciences PhD (now Rehabilitation and Health Services Research), the small-cohort experience shared with Population Health Sciences, and a social epi perspective. Watch: utmb.us/epz
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Young educator Marie Charlotte Schaefer makes history in 1901, as first woman on #UTMB faculty, teaching #embryology and #histology. Her #medical illustrations helped generations of students understand the beauty of science; they still inspire today in UTMB’s archives. #MedSky #WomenInMedicine
October 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Marie Delalondre started med school at 15, one of only two women in her class. By 18, she was UTMB’s first female graduate, even though she was too young for her diploma.

Her story is part of our Pioneers in Medicine series. Read more: utmb.us/ep6

#UTMB #WomenInMedicine #Trailblazers #MedSky
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📣 #FacultyFriday: Dr. William Spencer Carter joined UTMB in 1897 & served as the 4th Dean. He set up some of the first physiology & pharmacology labs in the South & helped build hospitals to support the community. Follow our weekly series to learn about the faculty shaping UTMB’s story! #UTMBHistory
October 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
UTMB’s Kyriakos Markides, PhD, is elected an External Member of the Cyprus Academy in Sociology. A career advancing immigrant and minority aging, the H-EPESE cohort, and the Texas RCMAR now joins a select fellowship of scholars in Cyprus. Read more: utmb.us/ems
October 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Language choices affect access and dignity after brain injury. UTMB’s Monique Pappadis helped a coalition craft clear, shared wording in “Communicating About Brain Injury.” utmb.us/ell
October 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The first X-ray in Texas was taken at #UTMB in 1896. Dr. Seth Morris built the machine from sewing machine parts, a year after Röntgen’s first X-ray of his wife’s hand (shown). UTMB’s first image: a nurse’s hand. A replica of the machine is still on display at Moody Medical Library.
#MondayMilestone
September 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
#FacultyFriday begins with Dr. William Keiller, UTMB’s first Professor of Anatomy and founding Dean (1891).

A Scottish-born surgeon and medical educator, Dr. Keiller laid the foundation for UTMB’s curriculum, clinical rigor, and long-standing reputation for excellence.

#UTMB #MedEd #MedSky
September 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
📢 Big step forward for cancer prevention in Texas:
Dr. Abbey B. Berenson, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UTMB’s John Sealy School of Medicine, has received a major CPRIT grant to expand HPV vaccination access in underserved East Texas communities.

#PublicHealth #HPV #UTMB #CancerPrevention
September 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The #NIA has renewed $6.5M funding for UTMB’s OAIC through 2030.

1️⃣ Research on chronic disabling conditions
2️⃣ Addressing disparities & underserved inclusion
3️⃣ Tech interventions for independence

🔗 Read more:
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#healthyaging #longevitylifestyle
September 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Congrats to MD/MPH student Shilpa Rajagopal and partner Madeline Steck (UTMB GSBS) on a UTMB President’s Cabinet Award. “Reading Together” provides free book bundles (EN/ES) to new parents with UTMB’s Mother/Baby Unit and community partners.
September 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM