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39 T M C ยป P U L S E | J U N E 2 0 1 8 10 | PHILIP LUPO, PH.D., associate professor of pediatrics in hematology - oncology at Baylor is the 2018 recipient of the F. Clarke Fraser New Investigator Award from the Teratology Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 | EDWARD BUCHANAN, M.D., was named chief of plastic surgery at Texas Children's Hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 | SUMMER DAJANI, vice president of global health care services at Houston Methodist Hospital, received the 2018 International Services Leadership Award, given by the U.S. Cooperative for International Patient Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 | JAMES LUPSKI, M.D., PH.D., the Cullen Endowed Chair in Molecular Genetics at Baylor's department of molecular and human genetics, received the March of Dimes Colonel Harland Sanders Award for Lifetime Achievement in the field of birth defects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 | Texas Children's Ambassadors and the Astros Foundation hosted a Family Fun Day at Minute Maid Park to benefit the Child Life Program at TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 | MARC BOOM, M.D., president and CEO of Houston Methodist Hospital, speaks with former FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH during a celebration to launch the new Center for Health & Nature at the hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 | Baylor honored five faculty members with the 2018 Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., Excellence in Research Award: KARL-DIMITER BISSIG, M.D., PH.D., associ- ate professor of molecular and cellular biol- ogy in the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy; ATUL CHOPRA, M.D., PH.D., assistant professor of molecular and human genetics, molecular and cellular biology and a Caroline Wiess Law Scholar; EREZ LIEBERMAN AIDEN, PH.D., assistant professor of molecular and human genetics and a McNair Scholar; MENG WANG, PH.D., associate professor of molecular and human genet- ics in the Hungton Center on Aging and Robert C. Fyfe Endowed Chair on Aging; and SHAWN ZHANG, PH.D., associate professor in the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center and a McNair Scholar. Pictured left to right are Aiden; Bissig; Zhang; GEORGE NOON, M.D., professor of surgery, the Meyer-DeBakey Chair in Investigative Surgery and president of the DeBakey Medical Foundation; PAUL KLOTMAN, M.D., Baylor President, CEO and executive dean; and ADAM KUSPA, PH.D., senior vice president and dean of research at Baylor. 12 13 11 15 DO YOU HAVE TMC PHOTOS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH PULSE? SUBMIT HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES TO: news@tmc.edu 10 16 15 14