TMC PULSE

November 2017

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t m c ยป p u l s e | n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 7 39 11 12 DO YOU HAVE TMC PHOTOS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH PULSE? SUBMIT HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES TO: NEWS@TMC.EDU 15 [ 11 ] PETER KIM, M.D., PH.D., Children's National Health System; WILLIAM ALTMAN, CEO, CorInnova; KEITH SVAGERKO, VP CorInnova; SHING YUE SHEUNG, NAVI Medical Technologies; and KOLALEH ESKANDANIAN, PH.D., Children's National, at the Pediatric Innovation Symposium. NAVi, which operates in the TMC INNOVATION INSTITUTE, and CorInnova, a resident company in the JLABS @ TMC space, were each awarded $50,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 12 ] EAMONN QUIGLEY, M.D., the David M. Underwood Chair of Medicine in Digestive Disorders at Weill Cornell Medical College at Houston Methodist, will be honored with the Berk/ Fise Clinical Achievement Award, at the upcoming World Congress of Gastroenterology meeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 13 ] ANNE YOUNG, EDD, RN, assistant pro- fessor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Baylor and researcher at Center of Innovations in Quality, Eectiveness and Safety received the Excellence in Research Faculty Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 14 ] WILLIAM T. BUTLER, M.D., who served as the second president of Baylor College of Medicine from 1979 to 1996, died on Sept. 22. Members of the Baylor community gathered for a memorial service on Oct. 3, where Butler was remembered as a humble and kind leader whose vision shaped the college into what it is today. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 15 ] CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HERMANN and MEMORIAL HERMANN LIFE FLIGHT unveiled a new look for one of the signature red Life Flight helicopters. The redesigned helicopter sports a bright green exterior and features the Children's Memorial Hermann logo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 16 ] KEVIN ERICKSON, M.D., assistant profes- sor at Baylor College of Medicine and researcher at Center of Innovations in Quality, Eectiveness and Safety, was awarded the 2017 Southeast Texas Young Investigator Research Grant by the National Kidney Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [17 ] CHARLES MACIAS, M.D., MPH, chief clinical systems integration ocer at Texas Children's Hospital and co-chair and co-founder of the national sepsis collaborative, accepted a 2017 Sepsis Hero award on behalf of the Children's Hospital Association and its membership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 18 ] Texas Children's President and CEO MARK A. WALLACE and his wife, Shannon, donated $80,000 to the TEXAS CHILDREN'S PAWSITIVE PLAY PROGRAM in memory of their beloved black Labrador, Cadence. 16 13 18 14 17

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