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35 t m c p u l s e | m a r c h 2 02 0 t m c p u l s e | m a r c h 2 02 0 9 | Pearl Hospitality unveiled the WESTIN HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER, a historic mid-century modern building that has been transformed into a 382,000 square-foot luxury wellness hotel with a curated art program and a pool terrace and rooftop bar overlooking Rice University and the Texas Medical Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 | KAITLYN EATON, an elite wheelchair basketball athlete who had several surgeries at Shriners Hospitals for Children – Houston and played on the TIRR Memorial Hermann Junior Hotwheels Team, is one of 12 athletes selected to the 2020 U.S. Paralympic Women's Wheelchair Basketball Team. Eaton and her teammates will compete in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo this summer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 | REKHA LAKSHMANAN, MHA, director of Advocacy and Policy for The Immunization Partnership, has been appointed a contribut- ing expert at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy-Center for Health and Biosciences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 | XIANG "SHAWN" ZHANG, PH.D., professor in the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine and a McNair Scholar, is one of two clinical inves- tigators to win Stand Up To Cancer's 2020 Laura Ziskin Prize in Translational Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 | TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL hosted a celebration that included a screech owl and a rabbit from the Houston Zoo. The special event for patients, families, hospital staff and invited guests launched the debut of San Diego Zoo Kids, a closed-circuit television adventure channel at Texas Children's Hospital and RONALD McDONALD HOUSE HOUSTON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 | VINCENT H. TAM, PHARM.D., profes- sor at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, was honored with the 2019 Literature Award for Sustained Contributions by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 | AMY McGUIRE, J.D., PH.D., the Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, has been elected as one of 12 new Hastings Center Fellows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 | MELODIE FRENCH, PH.D., a Rice University geologist and assistant profes- sor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, has earned a CAREER Award, a five- year National Science Foundation grant for $600,000 to support her investigation of the tectonic roots of earthquakes and tsunamis. Do you have TMC photos you would like to share with Pulse? Submit high-resolution images to: news@tmc.edu 11 14 9 13 15 12 10 16