Mouton named vice dean for academic affairs
Dr. Charles P. Mouton, will join the University of Texas Medical Branch as vice dean for academic affairs, effective March 1. Mouton also will be a professor in the Department of Family Medicine. A nationally recognized leader in education as well as in patient care and research, Mouton most recently was at Meharry Medical College in Nashville where he was the dean of the School of Medicine. His primary research interests are in women’s health, health disparities and aging. He was a co-investigator for the Women’s Health Initiative, the first study to investigate health in a large sampling of women across the U.S. to determine how diet, hormone therapy and calcium and vitamin D might prevent heart disease, cancer and bone fractures.
Hatch is interim chair of radiation oncology
Dr. Sandra “Sunny” Hatch, professor and vice chair of UTMB’s Department of Radiation Oncology, has been appointed interim chair for the Department of Radiation Oncology. Hatch’s practice is devoted to treating patients with breast and gynecologic malignancies. She holds the Ruth Levy Kempner Professorship in Breast Cancer and the Irma Labardini Mendoza and Jesse Jesus Mendoza Distinguished Chair in Breast and Gynecologic Malignancies. In 2015, she became a member of the first group named to UTMB’s Academy of Master Clinicians.
Lefeber winter lectures continue today
The UTMB Sealy Center on Aging Lefeber Winter Series on Aging today will feature University of Iowa Dr. Christopher M. Adams, professor of internal medicine who also is a professor of molecular physiology and biophysics. His presentation, “Muscle Weakness and Atrophy During Aging,” is at 5 p.m. today in the Caduceus Room of the administration building on the Galveston campus. For information, call 409-747-1987.
Volunteers needed to test potential flu treatment
Do you think you have the flu? Or do you know someone who does? The medical branch is a part of a national clinical study to determine the effectiveness of a new flu treatment. There is no cost for participants, who will be compensated for time and travel. Volunteers should call 409-772-5278 or send a message to CLDought@utmb.edu.
50 years of kidney transplants
UTMB’s Kidney Transplantation Program, established in 1967 and the first in the Houston/Galveston area, has performed more than 2,500 transplants to date. Since 2014, the UTMB Kidney Transplant team, which includes a select group of physicians, coordinators, social workers and a dietitian, has increased the transplant volume by 156 percent. In December, UTMB performed the highest number of transplants within a month in the program’s history — 14 kidney transplants.