From UTMB HEALTH

Steve Shelton, assistant vice president for community outreach, is the 2015 recipient of the Louis Gorin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Rural Health Care from the National Rural Health Association.

Shelton is program director of the Texas Area Health Education Center East that serves some medically underserved areas.

Dr. Sanjiv Sur was a featured speaker at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. The gathering, the world’s largest meeting about allergy, was held in Houston last month. Sur’s topic was “Pollens and oxidants: Dangerous partners in the epithelium.”

Dr. Don Powell, director of the UTMB Institute for Translational Sciences-Clinical Research Center gave the R.D. McKenna Memorial Lecture, as the featured speaker at the annual scientific meeting of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology in Banff, Alberta. Powell, who has been awarded NIH funding for more than 40 years, is a professor of internal medicine, neuroscience and cell biology.

Thomas Geisbert, a professor of microbiology and immunology, will be one of the featured speakers at a South by Southwest Interactive event Saturday. Sponsored by the UT System’s Office of Technology Commercialization, the free event begins at 3:30 p.m. at the plaza of Ashbel Smith Hall, 217 W. Seventh St., in Austin. Geisbert is testing potential vaccines and treatments for the Ebola virus.

Match Day, the day that fourth-year medical students learn where they will continue their medical education is March 20 at Levin Hall.

At UTMB, the event is a celebration for about 200 people, plus dozens of family members and friends, who will learn they have “matched” to continue on to their residencies at hospitals around the nation.

Dr. Criseida Berlingeri, assistant professor of dermatology, is the speaker today at the noon Lunch Bunch at the League City Campus, 2240 Gulf Freeway South. She will address innovations in skin care and managing some common skin problems. The session is free and open to the public. For information, call 832-505-1600.

The UTMB Human Resources department is moving to 2200 Market St. and The Strand on Galveston Island.

The Moody Medical Library on the Galveston Campus has a new exhibit to celebrate Women’s History Month. The exhibit, “Weaving the stories of Women’s Lives @ UTMB” is on the second floor of the library and runs through the end of March.

Inside UTMB is compiled by the communications department at the University of Texas Medical Branch.