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39 t m c » p u l s e | s e p t e m b e r 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 11 10 6 | HARDEEP SINGH, M.D., MPH, professor at Baylor College of Medicine and chief of the Health Policy Quality & Informatics Program at the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness & Safety (IQuESt), was selected by Expertscape as one of the top 0.1 percent of scholars writing about safety over the past 10 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 | ELLEN M. FRIEDMAN, M.D., professor of otolaryngology and director of the Center for Professionalism at Baylor College of Medicine, was elected to the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care Board of Directors as an at-large member. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 | TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL hosted HIS EMINENCE THE 7TH LING RINPOCHE, the reincarnation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's senior tutor, along with members of the Drepung Loseling Institute of Texas in late July. His Eminence spoke to hospital staff about practicing compassion in their roles, led them through a guided meditation and then offered blessings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 | Earlier this year, Holiday Bowl CEO MARK NEVILLE donated a kidney to TASHA HERRERA, who was his family's babysitter in San Diego, California for more than a decade. Herrera, who now lives in Houston, posted a call for donors on Facebook. After detailed tests confirming that Neville was a match, the TRANSPLANT CENTER AT MEMORIAL HERMANN-TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER performed the transplant. Read the story at tmcnews.link/bowl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 | TODD K. ROSENGART, M.D., professor and DeBakey-Bard Chair of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, was elected to the board of directors of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 | RIKHIA CHAKRABORTY, PH.D., assistant professor of pediatrics – oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, has received a Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program Career Development Award, part of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs that foster novel approaches to biomedical research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 | TMCx, the TMC Innovation Institute's accelerator program, welcomed its ninth cohort of companies in August. This medical device cohort consists of 17 companies— 10 international and seven in the United States, four of which are Houston-based. 7 8 9 12