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Dr. David Brown Senior Vice president and dean of the school of health professions

ASAHP selects Brown for 2022 Fellowship

September 21, 2022 • 2:43 p.m.

The Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) has selected Dr. David Brown for a 2022 Fellowship. Brown, Senior Vice President and Dean of the UTMB School of Health Professions, began working with the organization about four years ago and serves as Chair of the Research, Development, and Innovation Committee.

UTMB Researchers Earn Rare Perfect Score on NIH Grant with Violence Prevention Program

September 2, 2022 • 9:56 a.m.

Researchers from the Center for Violence Prevention at the University of Texas Medical Branch received a rare perfect score, also known as the “unicorn score,” on their renewal of a nearly $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The funding will continue testing the violence prevention program implemented by UTMB researchers.

Dr. Deborah J. Jones Selected to be Inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing

August 3, 2022 • 10:56 a.m.

The American Academy of Nursing (AAN) has selected Dr. Deborah Jones, Senior Vice President and Dean of UTMB School of Nursing, as one of its Class of 2022 Fellows. Dr. Jones is one of 250 nursing leaders from across the globe recognized for their significant contributions to health and health care.

APHA elects Guillot-Wright as governing councilor

July 20, 2022 • 11:36 a.m.

American Public Health Association members have elected Dr. Shannon Guillot-Wright to serve as a governing councilor representing the Community Health Planning and Policy Development section.

UTMB Digital, Marketing & Outreach efforts earn top awards

June 30, 2022 • 9:38 a.m.

Efforts spearheaded by the UTMB Health Community Engagement and Marketing and Communications teams have earned awards from two industry organizations.

Pew selects Baruch as a 2022 Pew Latin American Fellow in Biomedical Sciences

June 14, 2022 • 3:27 p.m.

Pew Charitable Trusts announced that Noe Baruch Torres, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, was selected as a 2022 Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences.

UTMB Physician Elected to the Texas Medical Association Board of Trustees

May 5, 2022 • 2:05 p.m.

Dr. Samuel E. Mathis, associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, has been elected to the Texas Medical Association (TMA) Board of Trustees to represent the Young Physician Section. TMA’s House of Delegates policymaking body elected Mathis during the association’s annual conference TexMed, in Houston on April 30.

UTMB League City reaches Level lll trauma center designation

May 2, 2022 • 11:43 a.m.

The Texas Department of State Health Services has named the University of Texas Medical Branch’s League City Campus as an Advanced Level III Trauma Facility.

HBJ's 2022 Landmark Awards: Medical winner and finalists

May 2, 2022 • 9:21 a.m.

The Landmark Award winner in the medical category is the University of Texas Medical Branch League City campus expansion. UTMB's initial League City hospital opened in 2016, and its inpatient services and other service lines quickly reached capacity. The expansion gives the League City campus a total of 97 beds and was designed to support the growing mainland population over the next decade. The new five-story patient tower features several new departments and amenities, adding 60 new patient beds, lab spaces, new food service and dining, and an adjacent helipad. The tower also can support future vertical expansion of up to 12 floors and 360 beds. The first phase of the expansion also included a new parking garage and a pedestrian bridge.

Dr. Mariano Garcia-Blanco professor and chair of the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

UTMB scientist elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 29, 2022 • 10:04 a.m.

Dr. Mariano Garcia-Blanco was named a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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