UTMB Briefs July 24, 2008 Houston Chronicle, July 24, 2008 This is a weekly column of UTMB news items in the Bay Area edition of the Houston Chronicle. This week's UTMB news included: Vicki S. Freeman, professor of clinical laboratory sciences, named as a 2008 Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. Dr. Karen Szauter, associate professor in the internal medicine and preventive medicine and community health departments, has received the Association of Standardized Patient Educators' Outstanding Educator Award. Dr. Oscar Suman, associate professor of surgery, will be appointed the holder of the Leon Hess Professorship for Burn Injuries Research. The UTMB University Eye Center at Friendswood, the first multispecialty ophthalmology treatment center to serve the Friendswood area, is now open. « Back | The Newsroom »