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34 t m c ยป p u l s e | a p r i l 2 0 1 9 Credit: Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 14, 15 courtesy photos; No. 9, John R Lewis Photography; No. 13, Dwight C. Andrews, UTHealth 6 5 7 Field Notes 1 | Deborah Martinez reacts to her results on Match Day. On March 15, students from UTHEALTH'S McGOVERN MEDICAL SCHOOL, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE and THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON found out where they would train for their residencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 | CHUCK STOKES, the president and CEO of Memorial Hermann Health System, announced in March that he will retire at the end of 2019. He began his career more than 40 years ago as an orderly in a Mississippi hospital. Soon after, he became a registered nurse. The Memorial Hermann Health System Board will conduct a national search for Stokes' replacement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 | HSIAO-TUAN CHAO, M.D., PH.D., assis- tant professor of pediatrics and molecular and human genetics, faculty at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, and associate program director of the basic neuroscience pathway in pediatric neurol- ogy at Baylor College of Medicine, has been named the newest McNair Scholar at Baylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 | EMILY SEDGWICK, M.D., who recently became the chief medical officer at HCA Houston Healthcare West, was honored with the Press Ganey Physician of the Year Award in her former role as an associate professor of radiology at Baylor College of Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 | MAURO FERRARI, PH.D., has joined the administration at the University of St. Thomas part time as Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Community Partnerships. Ferrari was previously Chief Commercialization Officer and Executive Vice President of Houston Methodist Research Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 | FELICIA SKELTON-DUDLEY, M.D., assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine and investigator at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, is one of Baylor's 2019 Women of Excellence Award recipients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 | Mayor Turner declared March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in Houston at a news conference at the JOHN P. McGOVERN TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER COMMONS, where attendees were encour- aged to walk through a 20-foot long inflatable colon. The American Cancer Society recom- mends screening for colon and rectal cancer begin at age 45. 1 2 3 4