UTMB’s Institute for Translational Science and the Sealy Center for Environmental Health & Medicine invite you to participate in a conversation about Understanding Diabetes: Prevention, Risk, Types and Management.

Location: MOD Coffeehouse, 2126 Post Office Street, Galveston

Date/Time: Thursday, October 17, 2019, 5:30-6:30 PM

This conversation features UTMB's Hanaa Sallam, MD, PhD, CDE, Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine Department, Endocrinology Division, Program Director of the CDC Fully-Recognized Diabetes Prevention Program, DTTAC Master Trainer Select and AADE-Certified Lifestyle Coach, and Certified Diabetes Conversation Map Trainer;  Michael Washburn Jr., MA, BS, CSCS, Program Manager of Community Resources, Wellness, and Volunteer Services, AADE-Certified Lifestyle Coach, Certified Diabetes Conversation Map Trainer; and Nastassia de Souza, MD, Chief Fellow in the Division of Endocrinology. 

Please join us as we explore and discuss the current knowledge and research revolving around the topic of diabetes.      

Light refreshments will be provided.

SCI Café is a community dialogue about science, health and possibilities among community members, researchers and scientists. The purpose is to engage and connect community members with science and science with the local community. Topics for SCI Cafés are driven by community learning interests and discovery from UTMB faculty.

BAY AREA HEART WALK

UTMB is a sponsor of the American Heart Association’s Bay Area Heart Walk, which will occur Nov. 9, 2019 on the Kemah Boardwalk. Please join us to keep hearts beating across the country! With a little heart we can save lives.  Each UTMB campus will host an opportunity for you to join their team (you can also sign up online). Here is when and where you can sign up:

• Angleton Danbury Campus – Skills Fair: Oct. 29 and 31
• Clear Lake Campus – Skills Fair: Oct.22 and Oct. 24
• Galveston Campus Jennie Sealy Lobby (by Einstein’s Bagels) Oct 25 and Nov. 5
• League City Campus (by Hospital Gift Shop) Oct. 23

When: November 9, 2019

Where: Kemah Boardwalk

Check in: 8:00 AM

Walk: 8:30 AM

For more event details, click here. 

To join a UTMB team click here.

UTMB offers its employees, retirees and volunteers free flu shots each year to help prevent the spread of seasonal influenza.

The 2019–2020 Flu Free program is provided in partnership with UT SELECT, a PPO plan administered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, and vaccinations are available Oct. 22 and 24 from 7:30 a.m. to noon in the Clear Lake Campus Hospital.

For more information about the institution’s vaccination program, click here.

At the next UTMB TechTalk, Information Services and Marketing & Communications will show you how to get the most out of your Apple in a world of oranges. We’ll open with some practical tips, talk about joining the UTMB domain (or not), and give you some real-world examples of how to get along without upsetting the Apple cart.

We hope you will join us!

Apples and Oranges: Using a Mac at UTMB

Date: Tuesday, Oct. 22
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Join us in person:

Health Education Center 2.206/2.220 (288)

Join via Skype:
https://meet.utmb.edu/techtalk/8SQ62ZQ9

Join by Phone
Number: 409-266-2120
Conference ID: 785650

Disaster Day is a student-led, large-scale simulation day aimed at preparing and educating health care professional students to work effectively in teams in the event of a community disaster. The event helps students apply skills  learned in courses to a simulated catastrophic event that includes victims with a spectrum of health-related issues. The event fosters interprofessional teamwork that collaboratively addresses community health. The realistic event features medical, nursing, and physician assistant studies students who serve as responders who help other students and community members who serve as patients. Faculty from all four schools and health professionals from the UTMB Health System are on hand to help students in a briefing, the event, and a debrief. Visitors are welcome to attend and watch the simulation from the viewing deck of the Moody Methodist Church gymanasium.