Did you miss our first annual Schoeni TRENDS Lecture featuring @marasheftel.bsky.social and Neil Mehta of @utmbspph.bsky.social? You can view it now on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL5c... or on our website at micda.isr.umich.edu/programs/the...
Dr. Vibhuti Gupta received the UT System Rising STARs award, funding his new DIVA-AI Laboratory at UTMB. The lab is building multimodal AI models to unify patient data across imaging, genomics, wearables, and clinical records. utmb.us/g0z
Get to Know Us begins a new faculty feature with Meredith Masel, PhD, whose work centers patient safety, communication, and self-management. In this video, she shares what newer population health departments can learn from established peers. Watch utmb.us/g0x
SPPH administrative team members held their first staff development activity yesterday with an afternoon of bowling. Thank you to our admins for the work you do every day!
Recent UTMB MD/MPH graduate Helen-Margaret Onuorah used federal data to compare rural and urban nursing home ratings across Texas. Her Daily Yonder article grew out of her practicum, with mentorship from Dr. Brian Downer.
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Congratulations to our MD/MPH graduates, who celebrated commencement with the JSSOM Class of 2026 on May 30!
A special congratulations to Shilpa Rajagopal, MD, MPH, class speaker and recipient of the Gold-Headed Cane Award, UTMB’s highest recognition for a medical student.
A nineteenth-century medical manual had a section on what to do at the birth of "monsters." That passage launched a decade of research. Dr. Miriam Rich's first book, Monstrous Conceptions, traces that history. Columbia University Press, July 2026. utmb.us/g0n
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Dr. Muhammad Amith won the Analytics Track Best Paper Award at IEEE ICHI 2026 in Minneapolis this week. His paper on Ontokeeper-Desktop, a biomedical ontology evaluation tool, was co-authored with researchers at UT Health and Mayo Clinic. zhang-informatics.github.io/ICHI2026/awa...
Utpol Das, MPH (Epidemiology) and 2026 SPPH Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award recipient, came to UTMB SPPH from Bangladesh with eight years of field experience. He talks about finding his niche in aging research and the support he found!
Monserrat Hinojosa, MPH (Epidemiology) with a Certificate in Global Health, spent four weeks in Lima, Peru, working with the Peruvian CDC on dengue and tuberculosis research. She talks about how that experience deepened her interest in global health!
The Schoeni TRENDS lecture is an annual lecture on late-life health trends in memory of Robert F. Schoeni, who founded and organized MiCDA’s TRENDS network for nearly two decades. The TRENDS lecture…
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