The University of Texas System Board of Regents named Dr. Marjan Afrouzian, associate professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, a 2021 Outstanding Teaching Award recipient.

UTMB peers of Nancy Vanaphan, a physician assistant at the UTMB Health Angleton Danbury Campus Women’s Health Clinic, elected her as the Advanced Practice Provider of the Year. The team celebrated October 6 to mark the start of Physician Assistant Week. Vanaphan, who has been practicing medicine for seven years, has been with UTMB Health for more than two years.

Nolan Michael Dvorak is a recipient of the Jess Hay Endowment for Chancellor’s Graduate Student Research Fellowship. Only two outstanding graduate students from UT System institutions get this honor each year, thanks to a generous endowment established by former UT System Regent Jess Hay.

The Texas Board of Criminal Justice honored the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing with the 2021 Governor’s Criminal Justice Volunteer Service Award- Health Division for the undergraduate nursing project titled BAMBI /School of Nursing Collaborative.

American Society for Virology has named Dr. Vineet Menachery, an assistant professor of Microbiology and Immunology at UTMB, a 2021 Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator.

Dr. Jeff Temple, director the UTMB Center for Violence Prevention, has received the 2021 Prevention Science Award from the Society of Prevention Research.

UTMB plastic surgeon, Dr. Linda Phillips, was recently inducted as president of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons.

Dr. Samuel Mathis, assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine, will serve a one-year term as the new physician board member.