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38 t m c ยป p u l s e | s e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 9 Field Notes Credit: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, courtesy photos; No. 5, Jeff Fitlow, Rice University; No. 8, Allen Kramer, Texas Children's Hospital 3 2 5 1 1 | Researchers and physicians at Baylor College of Medicine and Baylor St Luke's Health who have teamed up with InformAI to investigate the use of artificial intelligence to match donated organs with patients, include ABBAS RANA, M.D., assistant professor of surgery in Baylor's department of surgery, division of abdominal trans- plantation; JIM HAVELKA, InformAI CEO; JOHN MOORE VIERLING, M.D., professor of medicine and surgery in Baylor's division of abdominal transplantation, chief of hepa- tology and director of Baylor Liver Health; STUART CORR, PH.D., assistant professor and director of Baylor's Interdisciplinary Surgical Technology and Innovation Center (INSTINCT); and ROWLAND PETTIT, an M.D. and Ph.D. student at Baylor College of Medicine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 | TRACEY L. SMITH, PH.D., associate professor at Baylor College of Medicine in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and investigator for the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt) at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, received a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 | ARMANDO E. COLOMBO was named president and CEO of The Menninger Clinic. Colombo, who was executive vice president and CEO of Sheppard Pratt Health System in Maryland, joins Menninger's executive team on September 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 | TRICIA ZUCKER, PH.D., Harriet and Joe Foster Distinguished Professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and associate direc- tor of the Children's Learning Institute at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to early career researchers who show excep- tional promise for leadership in science and technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 | RICE UNIVERSITY welcomed more than 950 new students to a weeklong orienta- tion program in August. Each year, fresh- men make the ceremonial march through the Sallyport (a stone entryway) into the Academic Quad as fireworks fill the sky. 4