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t m c ยป p u l s e | j u ly 2 0 1 7 34 [ 1 ] Brigadier General Rick Noriega has been appointed CEO of RONALD McDONALD HOUSE HOUSTON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 2 ] Great Day Houston invited Shelly Simpson, LCSW, LCDI, from THE MENNINGER CLINIC community integration program and Heather Lambert, LPC, a lead counselor with the BRIDGEUP AT MENNINGER program, to discuss the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why and mental health issues that aect teenagers. From left, Great Day Houston host Deborah Duncan, Simpson, Lambert, Jill Ahrens Tucker, Linda De Sosa and Sahar Paz. * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 3 ] HULIN WU, PH.D., has been selected as the new chair of the Department of Biostatistics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 4 ] Sirj Goswami,Ph.D., founder and CEO of InsightRX, represented one of 21 digital startups that pitched their products as part of the TMC INNOVATION INSTITUTE'S Demo Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 5 ] YOHANNES T. GHEBRE, PH.D., assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, was awarded $1.98 million from the National Institutes of Health for his research involving idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 6 ] RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER HOUSTON/GALVESTON and the McDonald's Owner/Operators Association of Greater Houston awarded 85 high school seniors with scholarships for outstanding community involvement and academic performance. * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 7 ] MICHELLE PATRIQUIN, PH.D., has been promoted to director of clinical outcomes at The Menninger Clinic. * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 8 ] VICTOR E. REYES, PH.D., professor in the Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Pediatrics at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, was selected as a Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation. * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 9 ] AZIZ SHAIBANI, M.D., director of the Nerve & Muscle Center of Texas and clinical professor of medicine at Baylor, is president elect of Texas Neurological Society and a member of the international outreach committee of the American Neurological Association. * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 10 ] ALEXANDER BUKREYEV, PH.D., professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, has been named a member of the Vaccines Against Microbial Diseases Study Section, part of the National Institutes of Health, for a four-year term. * Field Notes 8 9 10 4 5 7 1 2 1 6 3 Credit: No. 1: Bill Clark/Roll Call/Getty Images, No. 2: Carbonara Group, * Courtesy photo