As part of Nurses Week last month, more than 20 of the University of Texas Medical Branch’s leaders shadowed nurses from across the Galveston and mainland campuses to get a firsthand look at the successes and challenges nurses experience on a daily basis. At the Angleton Danbury Campus, activities included an annual Stress-Free Day for all employees, where chair and hand massages were the special of the day. ADC managers and team leaders volunteered to serve cake and breakfast for the staff.

 

Getting physicals in Friendswood

UTMB orthopedic and sports medicine physicians, in partnership with Friendswood Independent School District, recently completed pre-participation physicals for 527 students (grades 7-12). The event was held at Friendswood High School’s Walter Wilson Field House for students who plan to participate in FISD athletics, including band, dance, cheer and more, at the junior high or high school level for the 2015-2016 school year.

 

Callender visits UTMB CMC employees

Dr. David L. Callender, along with several other UTMB leaders, recently visited UTMB Correctional Managed Care employees at the Walls and Estelle prison units and CMC Pharmacy Services in the Huntsville area as well as CMC offices in Conroe. CMC employees provide patient care to more than 120,000 offenders annually — about 80 percent of the Texas prison population and CMC Pharmacy Services dispense 4.6 million prescriptions a year, averaging more than 18,000 prescriptions per business day through its automated system.

 

Escamilla one of best

Belinda Escamilla, administrative director for Radiology Clinical Operations, will receive the Award for Excellence from the Association for Medical Imaging Management. It recognizes medical imaging professionals who have made a difference through exceptional innovation, leadership, administrative capabilities and sharing of expertise and experience. Escamilla is one of five AHRA members to be honored this year.

 

Fisher academic excellence awards

Winners of the Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Fisher Academic Excellence Awards in Neuroscience recently were announced. The awards are given to the best paper prepared and submitted by a medical or graduate student on any topic relevant to neuroscience. The Medical Student Award was won by Latham Fink for “Individual differences in impulsive action reflect variation in the cortical serotonin 5-HT2A receptor system.” The Graduate Student Award was given to Alice Bittar, “Two types of ROS are differentially involved in spinal synaptic plasticity and mechanical hypersensitivity in neuropathic mice” and to Norelle Wildburger, “Quantitative proteomics reveals protein-protein interactions with fibroblast growth factor12 as a component of the Nav1.2 macromolecular complex in mammalian brain.”