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t m c ยป p u l s e | f e b r u a r y 2 0 1 8 39 8 11 DO YOU HAVE TMC PHOTOS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH PULSE? SUBMIT HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES TO: NEWS@TMC.EDU [ 8 ] JOHN COVERDALE, M.D., M.ED., professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, received the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award at the Association of American Medical Colleges annual meeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 9 ] SHELA E. ECOBIZA, BSN, RN-BC, nurse for the Cardiac Intermediate Unit at Ben Taub Hospital, was named one of the 20 Outstanding Nurses in Houston for 2017 by the Texas Nurses Association, District 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 10 ] ARTHUR "TIM" GARSON JR., M.D., MPH, who leads the TMC's Health Policy Institute, hosted "True or False? A discussion challenging everything you think you know about health care." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 11 ] Researchers VANJA KRNETA-STANKIC, PH.D., and RACHEL MILLER, PH.D., of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth and MD Anderson Cancer Center, were among the winners of the annual Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology's BioArt Competition, which shares the beauty of biological research by celebrating the art of science. Their winning image shows skin cells from a frog embryo that has motile cilia (yellow threads). Krneta-Stankic and Miller are using this frog model to study the role of ciliogenesis in kidney development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 12 ] Thousands of people from the Houston area participated in the 2017 HOUSTON HEART WALK, which raises money for the American Heart Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 13 ] CATHERINE L. TROISI, PH.D., associate professor of management, policy and community health, and epidemiology at UTHealth School of Public Health, has been elected to the American Public Health Association executive board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 14 ] BIN S. TEH, M.D., professor and vice chair of the department of radiation oncology at Houston Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College, has been named Fellow of The American Society for Radiation Oncology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 15 ] ELIZABETH L. TRAVIS, PH.D., associate vice president, Women and Minority Faculty Inclusion at MD Anderson Cancer Center, has been named to the board of directors for the Association of American Medical Colleges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ 16 ] LOURIE MOORE, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, director of nursing knowledge management for Harris Health System, was named one of the 20 Outstanding Nurses in Houston for 2017 by the Texas Nurses Association, District 9. 13 16 10 9 15 14 12