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t m c ยป p u l s e | o c t o b e r 2 0 1 7 38 Field Notes 5 3 4 2 1 Credit: No. 3 Allen Kramer/Texas Children's Hospital; No. 6: Joseph Bravenec III; No. 9: Adolfo Chavez/MD Anderson; Nos. 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12: Courtesy photos 2 6 [ 1 ] PETER PISTERS, M.D., a sarcoma surgeon, was named the fifth president of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 2 ] OMKARA LASKHMI M. VEERANKI, DVM, PH.D., a second-year postdoctoral fellow in pathol- ogy at MD Anderson, received the Department of Defense's Horizon Award from the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program of the Oce of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs. The award provides $240,000 in funding for a two-year research project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 3 ] TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL sta members embrace after Tropical Storm Harvey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 4 ] THE TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE held a symposium, "Reducing the Cost of Health Care: Current Innovations and Future Possibilities," with health policy experts including GEORGE MASI, CEO of Harris Health System and STEPHEN LINDER, PH.D., director of the Institute for Health Policy at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health and associate director of the TMC Health Policy Institute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 5 ] Chef HUGO ORTEGA, center, and members of his restaurant sta at CARACOL delivered food to Texas Medical Center employees who worked through Tropical Storm Harvey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 6 ] A Vietnam veteran and dialysis patient from Beaumont, Texas, was airlifted to the MICHAEL E. DeBAKEY VA MEDICAL CENTER due to flooding from Hurricane Harvey.