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  • Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein and medical student Adonai Paz coauthor paper

    February 21, 2023, 13:15 PM by User Not Found

    To our knowledge, there have been few discussions in the andrology literature regarding the ethics of disclosure to donor conceived children. Our goal in this paper is to summarize the main reasons in favor of disclosure to engender more conversations about the ethics of donor conception in andrology circles.

  • BHH grad student Hannah Carpenter was accepted to the Archer Fellowship

    January 3, 2023, 08:00 AM by User Not Found

    Founded in 2001, the Archer Center is where Texas meets the world. As the Washington, D.C., campus of The University of Texas System, the Center provides talented undergraduate and graduate students from across the UT System with the opportunity to live, learn, and intern in the nation's capital.

  • Dr. Bryanna Moore's article published in Hastings Center Report

    December 27, 2022, 08:00 AM by User Not Found

    In pediatric health care, parents and clinicians sometimes have competing ideas of what should be done for a child. In this article, we explore the idea that notions of what should be done for a child partly depend on one's perception of one's role in the child's life and care.

  • Dr. Jacob Moses has article published

    December 20, 2022, 08:00 AM by User Not Found

    The article places key recommendations arising from the National Academy of Medicine’s National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being into a broader historical context. Health Affairs Forefront is described as “a heavily cited, rigorously-reviewed” publication “for health policy professionals and the health care industry to catch up on the ideas that thought leaders and peers are exploring in the field."

  • Dr. Bryanna Moore publishes on "good death" in Pediatrics

    December 19, 2022, 12:16 PM by User Not Found

    I sort through some of the confusion surrounding what constitutes the controversial notion of a “good death” for children. I distinguish, first, between metaphysical and practical disagreements about the notion of a good death, and, second, between accounts of a good death that minimally and maximally promote the dying child’s interests.

  • Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein publishes on fetal moral status

    December 14, 2022, 00:00 AM by User Not Found

    The antiabortion movement is increasingly using ostensibly scientific measurements such as ’fetal heartbeat’ and ’fetal pain’ to provide ’objective’ evidence of the moral status of fetuses. However, there is little knowledge on how clinicians conceptualise and operationalise the moral status of fetuses.

  • Dr. Emma Tumilty publishes co-edited collection

    December 13, 2022, 08:00 AM by User Not Found

    Explores the emerging complexity of how being human as we know it is changing Discusses transformation of social relations in transhuman futures Presents fresh perspectives on transhumanism and care, gender, work, reproduction, death, to name a few

  • Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein is coauthor on pediatrics posthumous reproduction paper

    December 12, 2022, 08:00 AM by User Not Found

    While all reproductive-aged individuals with cancer should be offered fertility preservation (FP) counseling, there is little guidance over offers to adolescent and young adults (AYA) with terminal diagnoses, especially when considering posthumous assisted reproduction (PAR).

  • Dr. Lisa Campo-Engelstein coauthors paper on male infertility treatment

    December 7, 2022, 09:00 AM by User Not Found

    Infertility is a time-consuming and exhaustive process, which disproportionally affects women. Although concerns have been raised about deficiencies in clinical evaluation of infertile men, there is currently little published data documenting this.

  • Dr. Elise Smith invited Guest Panelist

    December 5, 2022, 08:00 AM by User Not Found

    This panel will explore how collaborative teams can navigate the challenges related to giving members their due credit.

  • Grayson Jackson, IBHH MD/PhD graduate student, has article published

    November 29, 2022, 08:18 AM by User Not Found

    Students and faculty at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) embarked on the novel under-taking of establishing a comprehensive, interprofessional clinic treating underserved, uninsured residents of Galveston County, Texas, and the surrounding area, modeled after the patient-centered medical home (PCMH).