UTMB Announcements for 12/30/2024

CALL FOR NOMINATION:

The John P. McGovern Student Awards in Oslerian Medicine

The John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine is pleased to announce the Student Awards in Oslerian Medicine.  These awards provide monetary support for the education of medical students whose performance and conduct exemplify those ideals of medical practice as promulgated by Sir William Osler. The fundamental principles of Oslerian medicine include:

• Compassionate, personalized medical care that emphasizes the doctor/patient relationship,
• Incorporation of a sound scientific basis for optimal patient care, and
• Professional behavior at all times. 

The students that are given the honor of this award are called “Osler Student Scholars.”  The expectations of the Osler Student Scholars are to:

• Learn about the values and principles that governed the professional lives of John P. McGovern and Sir William Osler.
• Be active in the community of Osler Student Scholars and participate in projects of others or your own.
• Serve as a role model for your Osler Student Society and foster learning for yourself and others about Oslerian principles and incorporate those ideals into your education and practice.
• Encourage reflection on humanities and the importance of science as a foundation for the practice of medicine.
• Attend monthly meetings of the John P. McGovern Academy of Oslerian Medicine and other meetings of the Osler Student Scholars.
• Attend, and consider presenting at the annual American Osler Society meeting, annual Osler Symposium, and bimonthly Osler Club meetings.

Each award will be for $10,000 per year.  In 2025, awards will be presented to three (3) students: two (2) rising sophomores and one (1) entering the second, third, or fourth years who are in good academic standing in the John Sealy School of Medicine (JSSOM).

A medical student who becomes an Osler Student Scholar as a sophomore will receive funding for three (3) consecutive years, a medical student who becomes an Osler Student Scholar as a junior will receive funding for two (2) consecutive years, and a medical student who becomes an Osler Student Scholar as a senior will receive funding for one (1) year.

Medical students who are enrolled in dual degree programs are also eligible to become an Osler Student Scholar.  A student enrolled in a dual degree program who becomes an Osler Student Scholar as a sophomore medical student will receive funding for only three (3) consecutive years without regard to which UTMB school the student is enrolled. A student enrolled in a dual degree program who becomes an Osler Student Scholar as a junior medical student will receive funding for only two (2) consecutive years without regard to which UTMB school the student is enrolled. A student enrolled in a dual degree program who becomes an Osler Student Scholar as a senior student will receive funding for only one year.

Faculty who have worked with medical students as small group facilitators or preceptors in clinical settings, or mentors in the Osler Student Societies or other organizations, are especially encouraged to recommend this opportunity to worthy students.

Interested students must complete an application by logging on to: https://utmb.us/bnp. The Selection Committee also requires the applicant to identify an evaluator whom they know well in a professional or academic capacity to submit a recommendation on their behalf.  Evaluators must complete a standardized questionnaire by logging on to: https://utmb.us/bno. (Only one evaluator is allowed per student and active faculty Osler Scholars are prohibited from serving as evaluators for nominees.)

The fully executed forms must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 1, 2025.  For questions or concerns, please call the McGovern Academy office at (409) 747-9680 or send an email to: mcacadem@utmb.edu.  Expect delayed answers over the winter break (i.e., December 23, 2024 – January 2, 2025). 

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Please be advised: This is an ‘award’ not a ‘scholarship.’  Student Awards in Oslerian Medicine are non-academic prizes and recipients receive a personal check in the amount of $10,000.  Scholarships, on the other hand, are managed through Enrollment Services, take the form of educational financial aid and payments are trackable through MyStar.  This designation was made to help students remain eligible for the full amount of federal loans allowed for medical students.

Also, this is reportable income for a US student/Resident Alien student and taxable according to your respective filing status.  For further reporting requirements, please consult a tax professional.

For an HPV vaccine study

Participants must be HPV vaccine naïve and be available for 14 visits over about 13 months

Reimbursement is provided for time and travel

Please contact Amy McMahan, LVN at anmcmaha@utmb.edu

or

sivsctp@utmb.edu

409-772-5278

9th Annual Reproductive Ethics Conference

Hosted by 

The Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities

January 9th & 10th, 2025

08:00 am- 6:00 pm

For full schedule please email Kathryne Dunn: kddunn@utmb.edu

Sign up today for UTMB’s first-ever Faculty Leadership Collaborative (FLC): Early-Career Bootcamp before registration closes on January 3, 2025 at 5 p.m. [CST]. The bootcamp offers early-career faculty (less than 5 years at the rank of instructor or assistant professor) opportunities to connect with other early-career faculty around the world and learn from leaders in other academic health institutions.

Faculty who participate in this online bootcamp (offering both CME & CNE credits) will gain the tools for success in the following areas:

• Leadership competencies
• Self-knowledge (finding your voice)
• Communicating for influence
• Difficult conversations and conflict management
• Promotion and career development
• Negotiating resources for yourself
• Organizational savvy
• Healthy academic habits
• Mentorship (on being a good mentee and an effective mentor)
• Resilience and work-life integration
• Panel discussion with recently-promoted Associate Professors

Register today!
The Faculty Leadership Collaborative (FLC): Early-Career Bootcamp
Jan. 14 to 16, 2025 - 2 to 5 p.m. each day via Zoom

Registration payments can be made by:

• Department procard
• Personal credit card

Moment of Hope: Each week the Pastoral Care Department brings you a Moment of Hope and a Weekly Anchor to encourage you. Additionally, Click here to listen to today's Moment of Hope featuring one of our UTMB Chaplains.

Today’s Anchor comes from the Nursing School of Success. May it encourage you today. 

The new year is full of new possibilities, opportunities, challenges, and triumphs. In the wise words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations

We pray that you follow your dream of becoming the best you can be, that you never stop growing, and that you go to bed every night knowing that you made the world a little bit brighter.

There is still time to apply!

The IDEA grants program is directed at funding discovery and translational research, guided by the novelty of each project, its stage of development, and the institution's overall priorities. We are particularly interested in proposals focused on developing innovative therapeutics (small-molecule or antibody-based) and devices.

• Two mechanisms are available – up to $50k for Discovery & Innovation Grants - up to $150k for Technology Commercialization Program Grants.
• Approximately $1M is avaialble to support projects that have a high potential for external funding via grants or technology commercialization.
• Projects are funded for up to 1 year
• Simple, 2-page pre-proposal concept document is due by 5PM CT on December 31st, 2024.
• Only 1 proposal allowed per applicant.
• All UTMB employees are encouraged to apply.
• For more information, visit https://www.utmb.edu/sidd/news.

Innovation, Discovery & Technology Commercialization (IDEA) grants are offered jointly by UTMB's Moody Brain Health Institute, Sealy Institute for Drug Discovery (SIDD), Department of Internal Medicine, GNL, Development Office, & The Office of Innovation.

The Human Pathophysiology and Translational Medicine

Graduate Program presents:

Translational Research Seminar Series

"Amniotic Fluid Reduces Liver Fibrosis By Attenuating Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation"

Chase Bowen

Scholarly Concentration in Translational Research MD Student

Mentor: Dr. William (Sam) Fagg, PhD

Tuesday, January 7th, 2025

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Health Education Center 2.220

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The State of HIV in Texas hybrid webinar on Thursday, January 9, 2025, from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. (CST). This event will be hybrid (in-person and virtual) and free to anyone who wants to participate. 1.0 CE has been approved for physicians, physician assistants, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, and other healthcare professionals.
 
**Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.**
 
Speaker

Pedro Coronado, CHW 

 VP of Access and Continuity of Care

 South Central AETC LPS Director

Registration Link:https://scaetc.unm.edu/scaetc/event/?ER_ID=9618

 University of Texas Medical Branch
William C. Levin Hall Dining Room
1006 Market St, Galveston, TX 77550


Parking will be validated for Parking in Garage 4.

UTMB AETC Facebook Page: UTMB AIDS Education Training Center | Facebook
 
We hope to see you there!

OLLI’S SPRING SEMESTER CATALOG IS NOW AVAILABLE!

Visit www.utmb.edu/olli to view the exciting list of classes or stop by OLLI to pick-up a catalog.

  Spring semester registration opens January 6, 2025 at 9:00 a.m.

Register online or visit us at OLLI.