Why choose UTMB Health?

UTMB Health offers innovative care provided with compassion and that is nationally recognized. We embrace a Best Care philosophy, which means that UTMB is committed to making sure each patient receives the right care for the best possible results.

UTMB Health remains committed to expanding access to advanced care on our Galveston, League City, Clear Lake and Angleton Danbury campuses and at more than 90 primary and specialty care clinics in Southeast Texas.

No matter where you enter the UTMB Health network, our providers, clinics and hospitals are seamlessly connected to one another.

Because we are an academic medical center, physicians share knowledge, the most advanced treatment options and leading-edge research – to bring you the benefits of academic medicine close to home.

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Pettitt named American Chemical Society fellow

Dr. Bernard Montgomery “Monte” Pettitt, a biochemistry and molecular biology professor at UTMB, has been recognized as a 2021 Fellow of the American Chemical Society.

The American Chemical Society Fellows Program recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions to science and the society.

Pettit was recognized for the development and application of theories of liquid state to protein and nucleic acid systems. The society also found his leadership in teaching is noteworthy, and that Pettitt has trained 100 students and postdoctoral fellows.

The society also recognized Pettitt’s service to the Greater Houston local section as program chair and general chair for Southwest Regional ACS meetings in 2006 and 2016. He also has served as a Project SEED mentor since 2014.

 Pettitt has been with UTMB for almost 10 years. He is the Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology and Toxicology. He is also director of the Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics.

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