Dr. Samuel E. Mathis, an assistant professor of Family Medicine at UTMB, is a new member of the American Academy of Family Physicians board of directors. The academy held elections for its board in September. The academy represents 133,500 physicians and medical students.

Dr. Jeff Temple, director of the Center for Violence Prevention at UTMB, took part in a conversation about medication for ADHD.

Sheryl L. Bishop, UTMB professor emeritus and social psychologist, spoke about how many people to put in a crew going to Mars. “There isn’t a real ‘Goldilocks’ number for a Mars crew; the general opinion is that you need a group of at least five people,” Bishop said. One reason would be to have someone who could break a tie, she said.

Dr. Alan Barrett, director of the Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences at UTMB, was part of an expert panel on the radio program Town Square discussing the future of the COVID-19 booster shots.

A British news outlet featured UTMB and new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "The safety and antibody response of a booster dose administered seven to nine months after the regular two-dose series suggests that a third dose could prolong protection and further increase the breadth of protection against variants," said Pei-Yong Shi, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UTMB.

Dr. Charles Mouton, executive vice president, provost and dean of the School of Medicine at UTMB, wrote: “The COVID-19 pandemic has demanded more from our health care workforce than ever before,” he wrote. “Therefore, it’s especially important to keep patient safety at the forefront of our minds. Health care workers, coping with physical and emotional exhaustion, need the help of everyone to ensure a safe health care environment while they risk their own health to deliver care to others.”

A news team with ABC’s Good Morning America visited UTMB’s Galveston Campus last week to talk to doctors and nurses treating covid patients. This report was picked up and used by ABC TV stations across the nation.

UTMB’s front line staff was also featured for this story on covid patients and vaccines on World News Tonight on ABC News.

UTMB’s Dr. Scott Weaver was featured in this story by CNN looking into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. “Unfortunately, it’s been very disappointing to see that the Chinese government has not been very forthcoming with some of the critical information about the very early stages of the outbreak,” Weaver told CNN.