By UTMB
Angela Colantonio from the University of Toronto recently was honored as this year’s winner of the Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation. The Moody Prize is presented annually by the Division of Rehabilitation Sciences in the School of Health Professions at UTMB and The Transitional Learning Center of Galveston. The award recognizes significant contributions in acquired brain injury rehabilitation and research. The annual award consists of a $10,000 honorarium from UTMB, a citation, and an inscribed statue.
Urgent care available on Memorial Day
Three urgent care clinics will be open from noon to 8 p.m. on Memorial Day. Adult and pediatric urgent care will be available at the League City Campus, 2240 Gulf Freeway South and pediatric urgent care will be available at Pediatric After-Hours Urgent Care, 3023 Marina Bay Dr., Suite 101, in League City, and at Pediatric Urgent Care, Island West, 6416 Broadway, in Galveston. UTMB’s hospitals and ERs on the Angleton Danbury and Galveston campuses will be open.
Smith selected for national leadership program
Kenneth D. Smith, interim director for the Center to Eliminate Health Disparities at UTMB has been selected to participate in a yearlong executive leadership program designed to tackle racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Smith is one of only 60 individuals from 21 health care organizations from around the United States to be selected for the Disparities Leadership Program 2015-2016. The program is to help health care leaders develop practical strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care. The program is led by the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Mutjaba is new Fellow at national transplantation organization
Dr. Muhammad Mujtaba, medical director for UTMB’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, was selected as a Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation. The FAST designation recognizes American Society of Transplantation members who have demonstrated both an exceptional commitment to the field of transplantation and outstanding service to the American Society of Transplantation. Mujtaba was inducted in Philadelphia during the American Transplant Congress meeting earlier this month.
Fuller elected to statewide medical group
Dr. Deborah A. Fuller, a 1984 UTMB graduate of the School of Medicine, has been elected president of the Texas Medical Association Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Texas Medical Association, the nation’s largest state medical society. Fuller, the immediate past president of the School of Medicine Alumni Association board of trustees, obstetrician-gynecologist in private practice in Dallas.
Inside UTMB is compiled by the communications department at the University of Texas Medical Branch.