Health System Heartbeat

UTMB and Weill Cornell Medicine will host a symposium on aging, geriatric and palliative medicine on Jan. 28.

“Together we are laying the foundation to bring the latest in neuro-engineering and neurotechnology to UTMB and to make it applicable and useable for patients and our community.”—Dr. Giulio Taglialatela.

Here's some holiday fun to make your day a little more merry and bright!

For children facing extended hospital stays, the experience can be emotionally taxing. Allowing them to personalize ceiling tiles offers them a sense of control, self-expression, and accomplishment.

The team is developing a new platform for the rapid detection and quantification of tissue and organ injury.

“This is quite a special honor but not at all surprising."—Dr. Jerome Yaklic, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UTMB.

Rastellini is a professor of Instruction in the Department of Neurobiology, John Sealy School of Medicine.

A huge and heartfelt THANK YOU!

It's clear that the strength of UTMB lies in the dedication, passion and expertise of our faculty, staff and students. As 2024 ends, I want to express my gratitude to you, our outstanding community of medical professionals, faculty, staff, students and leadership.

We are incredibly proud to recognize these outstanding nurses for their selflessness, compassion and dedication to patient care.

Becky provides exceptional leadership and guidance to UTMB's community engagement team

Will McWhorter is the first CMC representative on the UT System Employee Advisory Council

“The fact that the brain defines who we are sets it apart in a fascinating way from all other organs in our body,” he said. "I grasped that early on and wanted to know more and more.”

In this video interview, UTMB's vice president and chief transformation officer talks about what drew him into health care, his heroes, what inspires him and more.

The program emphasizes a holistic approach to well-being that includes movement, stress management and lifestyle changes.

"The opportunity to help provide care to patients during their most vulnerable moments is both challenging and rewarding."

The Always Award recognizes outstanding work and patient satisfaction as determined by those patient surveys.