Announcements
Research Conference presented by James Versalovic, MD, PhD
posted 5/8/08
Department of Pathology Research Conference
"The Human Microbiome in Action: Microbia Regulation of Immune Signaling Pathways"
Presented By
James Versalovic, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, and Molecular and Human Genetics
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
BCM Cullen, 301A
The Barbara and Corbin J. Robertson Jr. Award for Excellence in Education awarded to Vicky Gresik, M.D.
posted 4/21/08
Vicky Gresik M.D., Professor, Pathology and Pediatrics, was selected as outstanding educators for 2008. Each of these awardees has excellent teaching skills and is to be commended for their dedication to the training of our students.
The Barbara and Corbin J. Robertson Jr. Presidential Award for Excellence in Education award will be presented at noon, Wednesday, April 30, in Cullen Auditorium. Following the awards presentation, David C. Leach, M.D., retired chief executive officer of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, will present the 2008 Education Awards Lecture. Dr. Leach is a nationally and internationally known educator who has led the way toward establishing competency-based education across the continuum of medical training.
Dolores Lopez-Terrada, M.D., Ph.D. awarded the Fulbright & Jaworski LLP Faculty Excellence Award - Education Leadership Fall 2007
posted 4/21/08
Dolores Lopez-Terrada, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, was selected as outstanding educators for 2007. Each of these awardees has excellent teaching skills and is to be commended for their dedication to the training of our students.
The Fulbright & Jaworski LLP Faculty Excellence award for Education Leadership will be presented at noon, Wednesday, April 30, in Cullen Auditorium. Following the awards presentation, David C. Leach, M.D., retired chief executive officer of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, will present the 2008 Education Awards Lecture. Dr. Leach is a nationally and internationally known educator who has led the way toward establishing competency-based education across the continuum of medical training.
Bhuvaneswari Krishnan, M.D. awarded the Fulbright & Jaworski LLP Faculty Excellence Award - Teaching & Evaluation Summer 2007
posted 4/21/08
Bhuvaneswari Krishnan M.D., Associate Professor, Pathology, was selected as outstanding educators for 2007. Each of these awardees has excellent teaching skills and is to be commended for their dedication to the training of our students.
The Fulbright & Jaworski LLP Faculty Excellence award for Teaching & Evaluation will be presented at noon, Wednesday, April 30, in Cullen Auditorium. Following the awards presentation, David C. Leach, M.D., retired chief executive officer of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, will present the 2008 Education Awards Lecture. Dr. Leach is a nationally and internationally known educator who has led the way toward establishing competency-based education across the continuum of medical training.
Dr. Alice Chen Receives CAGT Faculty Teaching Award
posted 12/10/07
Alice Chen, MD, PhD , assistant professor, received the “Faculty Teaching Award” for the Alkek location of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at the Annual CAGT Conference held on Nov. 5th and 6th, 2007. Members of the research labs vote on their work experience with each faculty member throughout the year. Our congratulations to Dr. Chen on this honor!
Dr. Rick Sifers Receives 8-Stranded Beta-Barrel Jelly Roll "Best Lecturer" award
posted 11/30/07
The “Best Lecturer” award represents one of the 8-Stranded Beta-Barrel Jelly Roll awards given to teachers of the core curriculum for the BCM Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Members of the first year class (from the previous year) vote for the three best lecturers that they had. The 2007 Awardee is Rick Sifers, PhD, associate professor. He taught the following classes "Organization of the Cell" and "Structure of Macromolecules" and is also a co-director of the first class. Our congratulations to Dr. Sifers on this well deserved award!
Dr. Megan Dishop Receives Pediatric Excellence in Teaching Award
posted 11/26/07
Mark Ward, director of the pediatric residency program, announced the first ever award by the Department of Pediatrics for Excellence in Teaching to a non-pediatrician at the Symposium on Pediatric Lung Disease was held on Friday, November 16th, in honor of Dr. Claire Langston. The recipient for 2007 is Megan Dishop, MD, assistant professor in Pathology. The nominations came from pediatric faculty, fellows, and house staff. This wonderful recognition was especially timely in view of the presence in the TCH auditorium of the distinguished speakers on lung development and disease in children with whom Drs. Langston and Dishop are collaborating. Please congratulate Dr. Dishop on this honor.
Congratulations to Dr. James Versalovic
Dr. James Versalovic, associate professor of Pathology based at Texas Children's Hospital, has received the inaugural BioGaia Ivan Casas Probiotics Award. BioGaia AB is a commercial venture working to translate this relatively new science of probiotics into products for human and animal health. The award was presented to Dr. Versalovic "in recognition of his pioneering work in the study of the genome and gene expression in L. reuteri and his quest to define the mechanisms of action of this probiotic." He was also acknowledged for "his significant contributions to the advancement of probiotic research around the world."
Congratulations to Drs. Kathryn Pepple and Angshumoy Roy
The Milton J. Finegold Graduate Student Achievement Award 2006 was presented to Kathryn L. Pepple, MD, PhD, (Graeme Mardon, PhD, mentor) and Angshumoy Ron, MD, PhD, (Marty Matzuk, MD, PhD, mentor) on Tuesday, September 25th. The award honors these individuals as the most outstanding graduate student who completed his/her dissertation with a faculty member of the Department of Pathology at Baylor College of Medicine. Please join us in congradulating these honorees on the well deserved award.