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35 t m c » p u l s e | m a r c h 2 0 1 9 Do you have TMC photos you would like to share with Pulse? Submit high-resolution images to: news@tmc.edu 6 | ANNA MESSNER, M.D., has been named chief of otolaryngology at Texas Children's Hospital. Previously at Stanford University Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Messner is president-elect of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 | PATRICK BROWNING, J.D., a department administrator for The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center department of neu- rosurgery, was recently named a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 | Astros second baseman TONY KEMP speaks with patient Gracie about her reha- bilitation at SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN – HOUSTON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 | Baby Micyah Jimenez, a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSPITAL patient, received a red hat made by one of the many volunteers for the American Heart Association who celebrated American Heart Month by knitting and crocheting red hats for babies born in February. Children's Memorial Herman participated in the Little Hats, Big Hearts program, which raises awareness of heart disease, the number one killer of Americans, and congenital heart defects, the most common type of birth defect in the country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 | TODD ROSENGART, M.D., chair and professor of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor, was named the 2018 president of the Society of Surgical Chairs, a managed program of the American College of Surgeons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 | KJERSTI AAGAARD, M.D., PH.D., the Henry and Emma Meyer Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor, has been honored with a 2018 Nature Award for Mentoring in Science. With the prize money, she will estab- lish the Aagaard Research Mentorship Award in Pregnancy and Women's Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 | THE TMC INNOVATION INSTITUTE welcomed 21 digital health companies into its eighth accelerator cohort on February 11. The companies were selected from more than 150 digital health applications. 6 7 11 9 12 8 10