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38 t m c ยป p u l s e | a u g u s t 2 0 1 9 Credit: Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 courtesy photos; No. 2, Michael Hart, No. 15, Dwight C. Andrews/McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Office of Communications Field Notes 2 3 1 7 5 4 1 | SHARON PLON, M.D., PH.D., professor of pediatrics-oncology and of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children's Cancer Center's Cancer Genetics and Genomics Program, has been appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research until 2020. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 | MIKE BENNETT has been named chief nursing officer at The Menninger Clinic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 | KENNETH McCLAIN, M.D., PH.D., profes- sor of pediatrics-oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, has received the 2019 George R. Buchanan Lectureship Award from the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 | HUDA ZOGHBI, M.D., founding director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital and the Ralph D. Feigin Professor in the departments of pediatrics, molecular and human genetics, neurology and neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, has joined The Menninger Clinic's Clinic Board of Directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 | TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL tied for third overall in the U.S. News & World Report's 13th annual rankings of the best children's hospitals. Texas Children's was also named the best place in the country for children in need of pediatric cardiology and heart sur- gery, as well as pulmonary care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 | THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON hosted the nation's first Women's World Wheelchair Rugby Invitational Clinic, a four-day training camp featuring athletes from the United States, Canada and France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 | Marc Boom, M.D., center, CEO and president of Houston Methodist, led a celebration welcoming one of the world's most powerful MRI machines to the HOUSTON METHODIST TRANSLATIONAL IMAGING CENTER. The Siemens 7 Tesla (7T) MAGNETOM Terra was procured through a Siemens Healthineers and Houston Methodist multi-year consortium agreement. This is the first 7T MRI of its kind in Texas and the first 7T MRI scanner approved for clinical use in the U.S. The MAGNETOM Terra is scheduled to be operational in the second half of 2019. 6