From the Labs
Houston, Texas
Volume 7, Issue 4
May 2008

News Briefs

Endowed chair established in honor of Brinkley

The William R. Brinkley/BRASS Endowed Chair was established in honor of Baylor College of Medicine long-time faculty member Bill Brinkley, Ph.D., senior vice president and dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at BCM.

Funding for the chair was provided by Baylor Research Advocates for Student Science (BRASS), a committed support group of prominent Houston citizens established in 1993 to provide scholarships and other benefits to the graduate school's top applicants for the Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D. degrees.

Brinkley, the first holder of the chair, has served as dean of the graduate school for the past 17 years and has led the school to its present standing as one of the nation's leading centers for graduate education.

El-Serag named to clinical investigation society

Hashem B. El-Serag, M.D., associate professor of medicine and chief of the section of gastroenterology and hepatology, has been accepted as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation "Young Turks."

He was nominated for his seminal work on the epidemiology of hepatocellular carcinoma. El-Serag also serves as GI section chief at the Michael E. DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center and chief of the Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes program at BCM.

The American Society for Clinical Investigation, established in 1908, is one of the nation's oldest and most respected medical honor societies. Membership to the ASCI is by election only and is considered an extraordinary honor in academic medicine and industry. Each year, ASCI members nominate those they feel have had significant accomplishments at a relatively early age of 45 years or younger.

Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians

This exhibit Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians at the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library tells the extraordinary story of how American women wanting to practice medicine have struggled over the past two centuries to gain access to medical education and to work in the specialty they chose. The exhibit will extend through June 6. On May 6, the library is sponsoring a panel discussion on "The Adventures and Challenges of Women Physicians" at 11:30 a.m. at the library.

Changing the Face of Medicine describes women's successful quest to become doctors and introduces audiences to outstanding physicians from across the United States.