By UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH
On Oct. 5, The Robert and Russell Moody Lecture Series will begin. This first lecture, entitled, “Consciousness and the Birth, Life and Death of the Brain,” will be at 6 p.m. at the Moody Gardens IMAX Theater. The lecture will be presented by Christof Koch, president and chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. For more information, contact William Winslade, wwinslad@utmb.edu.
UTMB students receive 2016 travel fellowship in tropical medicine
Two University of Texas Medical Branch medical students will be heading to Peru to continue their work on tropical medicine thanks to the Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellowship in Tropical Medicine from The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
UTMB’s Christine Kley and Adam Kley were two of 21 medical students awarded the fellowship from 19 medical schools. The unique fellowship is the only medical student award in the United States dedicated to nurturing a career path for physician-scientists in tropical medicine.
The fellowship is named to honor Dr. Benjamin H. Kean (1912-1993) an internationally acclaimed tropical medicine expert and personal mentor to many of today’s world-renowned tropical medicine experts.
UTMB faculty and students participate in Design-A-Thon
Physical Therapy faculty members Laurie Farroni, Michael Furtado, Adrianna Laprea and Dana Wild were invited to participate in Rice University’s Innovate Design-A-Thon Assistive Devices for Adults and Children with Disabilities. UTMB faculty served as panelists, presenters and mentors to Rice engineering students, Texas Women’s University students and UTMB Physical Therapy students.
UTMB’s Luis Guajardo, Ashley Mitchell, Laura Kim, Lindsey Wells, Amethyst Guerrero and Luke Wang participated in this three-day event. The students worked to identify a problem to address which could be helped with some sort of assistive device.
Sports injury clinic open
A youth and school sports injury clinic will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturdays through Nov. 5 at the League City Campus, 2240 Interstate 45, in League City. The medical branch’s sports medicine and rehab team is specially trained to treat a full range of sports injuries. For more information, call 832-505-1200 or visit utmbhealth.com/sports.