University of Texas Medical Branch residents Dr. Jenna Reisler, Dr. Elena Diller and Dr. Alokika Patel, working with their faculty sponsor, Dr. Lindsay Sonstein, have been awarded a $15,000 Back to Bedside grant to fund structured medical home visits in the community.
Eleven students from The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) were accepted to the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston Galveston for the 2024-2025 academic year.
With potential to improve cardiovascular and pulmonary fitness and reduce risk of heart disease and stroke, walking has an abundance of health benefits – especially when it comes with a physician-led conversation about wellness. That’s the philosophy behind “Walk with a Doc."
The extreme environments of places like Antarctica and Mt. Everest are perfect for Aerospace Medicine students needing to practice medicine and gather data that may influence and inform how health care is handled on future NASA missions to the moon and Mars.
The Division of Pediatric Surgery at The University of Texas Medical Branch took home the gold in the 2024 Hermes Creative Awards for its video elucidating the intricacies of gastrostomy tubes for patients, accessible at their convenience.
Growth hormone injections significantly improved the neurologic symptoms of patients suffering from long COVID, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and Texas A&M University have received a grant totaling around $7.5 million over five years from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to establish a center dedicated to promoting women's and pregnancy health research.
Dr. Jerry Mansfield’s voice cracked as he talked about the death of his 15-year-old brother-in-law. It happened decades ago, but the emotion was fresh and the memory raw as Mansfield, new vice president and system chief nursing executive at the University of Texas Medical Branch, stood in front of a crowd gathered in the hallway of Jennie Sealy Hospital on the Galveston Campus.
Dr. Joan Richardson, chair, professor and provider with the UTMB Department of Pediatrics will hold serve as the organization's president for the next year.
Dr. Michael Sheetz is the top scholar in the world publishing on cytoskeletons and among the top 0.05 percent of scholars according to ScholarGPS, an analytics site which tracks and ranks scholars and institutions worldwide.
About The University of Texas Medical Branch
The first academic health center in Texas opened its doors in 1891 and today has four campuses, five health sciences schools, seven institutes for advanced study, a research enterprise that includes one of only two national laboratories dedicated to the safe study of infectious threats to human health, a Level 1 Trauma Center and a health system offering a full range of primary and specialized medical services throughout the Texas Gulf Coast region. UTMB is an institution in The University of Texas System and a member of the Texas Medical Center.