The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities would like to congratulate graduate student Erica Fletcher on the publication of her article on social theory in the Journal of Medical Humanities.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities is pleased to share that faculty member Anne Hudson Jones, PhD, has published an article in The Hastings Center Report.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities would like to congratulate William J. Winslade, JD, PhD on the publication of a commentary on "Surgical Castration, Texas Law, and the Case of Mr. T" in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities is pleased to share that two graduate students and a faculty member were interviewed and quoted in a January 2014 article in The Atlantic on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities would like to congratulate faculty member Rebecca Hester, PhD on the publication on her chapter on human assimilation in Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies (Information Science Reference, ISBN 9781466645820).

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities would like to congratulate faculty member Anne Hudson Jones, PhD on the publication of her article, "Why Teach Literature and Medicine? Answers from Three Decades," in the Journal of Medical Humanities.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities would like to congratulate the Institute students and faculty who were among the recipients of the 2013 UTMB Health Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) Scholarship Awards.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities is pleased to share that many of our faculty, graduate students, and alumni gave presentations at the 2013 Annual Conference of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in Atlanta, GA.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities is pleased to share that faculty member Anne Hudson Jones gave the opening lecture at a workshop on Literature and Medicine, held as part of the Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association in July 2013.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities is pleased to share that graduate student Erica Fletcher and faculty member Anne Hudson Jones, PhD participated in "A Narrative Future for Healthcare", a conference hosted by King's College London in June 2013.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities is pleased to share graduate students Stephanie Darrow and Kenneth Alewine gave presentations at the 1st Annual Symposium on Medeival and Renaissance Studies. The students' presentations were part of a session on "Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Art and Anatomy" organized by faculty member Anne Hudson Jones, PhD and chaired by Daniel Bustillos, JD, PhD (IMH `08).

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities is pleased to share that faculty member Anne Hudson Jones, PhD presented a keynote lecture at the 2013 International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine in May 2013 in London, UK.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities is pleased to announce that graduate student Nicole Piemonte was awarded the John D. and Mary Ann Stobo Award at the Osler Oration held in July 2013.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities would like to congratulate Nicole Piemonte, MA on the publication of her article, "Avoiding a 'Death Panel' Redux" in The Hastings Center Report. Dr. Piemonte co-authored the article with Laura Hermer, JD, LLM, a former Institute faculty member.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities is pleased to share that Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD (IMH `98) was recently promoted to Professor of Bioethics at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities would like to congratulate Nicole Piemonte, MA on the acceptance of an article for publication in The Hastings Center Report.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities would like to congratulate Heather Carson, JD on the acceptance of her article on vaccine use in the Journal for Biosecurity, Biosafety, and Biodefense Law.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities would like to congratulate graduate student Heather Carson, JD on the poster presentation of her work at the Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities would like to congratulate its three December 2012 graduates: Dr. Jiin-Yu Chen, Dr. Andrew Childress, and Ms. Kimberly Gordy.

The UTMB Health Institute for the Medical Humanities is pleased to share that Craig Klugman, PhD, (IMH `01) has been named the editor for the blog of the American Journal of Bioethics and is making weekly contributions to the blog.