UT’s Lex Frieden and City Hall recognize long-time supporter of disability rights
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston disability rights champion Lex Frieden and Houston City Council Member Anne Clutterbuck of District C arranged for a mayoral proclamation honoring former Houston Mayor Bob Lanier for his support of people with disabilities.
The proclamation, read at a Sept. 23 city council meeting in conjunction with the 18th anniversary of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), recognized Lanier for improving the lives of Houstonians with disabilities both as Houston's mayor between 1991 and 1997 and as chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Houston (METRO) before that.
UT faculty members win American Heart Association awards for advancing research
Faculty members at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-Houston) were honored for their work in the fight against heart disease at the 2008 American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions in New Orleans. Heart disease is the nation's No. 1 killer.
UT faculty members recognized were: Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., director emeritus of The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases (IMM), a part of the UTHSC-Houston; John Holcomb, M.D., director of the Center for Translational Injury Research at the UTHSC-Houston; and Raffaella Lombardi, M.D., Ph.D., IMM postdoctoral fellow. The AHA scientific sessions were Nov. 8 -12.
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- Feldman named ophthalmology chair at UT Medical School at Houston
Robert M. Feldman, M.D., an expert in the treatment of glaucoma and other degenerative eye disorders, has been named chairman of the Richard S. Ruiz, M.D. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
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