Holiday Hours At UTMB - Daily News - Galveston County

Special to The Daily News

Published 22nd December 2010

As the University of Texas Medical Branch is planning community to celebrate the holidays, an amended schedule was set up a clinic. Most hospitals medical branch closed on Christmas Eve, Monday December 31 and be.

However, several hospitals on both the island and the mainland, the patients in this period.

Opt for a complete list utmbhealth.com. The emergency room, 901 Harborside Drive, Galveston, is open day and night.

All of the medical branch of clinical health facilities will return to their regular schedule on January 3.

Pastoral on the Web

Pastoral ministry to the medical industry has a presence on the Web http://blog.utmb.edu/pastoralcare.

Extension, the site offers a multi-faith calendar and background on a variety of religions and beliefs.

The department is the first floor of John Sealy Hospital at the newly renovated chapel.

Galveston Global Health Consortium

The Global Health Consortium Galveston has launched a website at www. Utmb.edu / GHC life.

The consortium was founded in 2008 and serves as an umbrella organization linking education, research and training in global health to the medical industry.

The consortium includes professors from four schools medical branch, and the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Center for the elimination of health inequalities, WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases and PAHO / WHO Collaborating Centre on Aging and student groups related to global health.

Nursing Ethics Seminar

Jamie Heffernan, chief nurse of the Burn Unit at UTMB Blocker, presented "The burden of heroic deeds and acute care in burn patients, a one-hour seminar on challenges for burns and providers who treat them.

Presentations

Allan Brasier, director of the Translational Science Institute and Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, presented "Application of biomarkers in translational research."

Bill Amerides, associate professor of medicine with special expertise in environmental toxicology, gave a lecture on understanding the "mechanisms of airway inflammation of the environment."

New Appointment

Lexi Nolen was the training program for acting director of the medical branch of global health, is also director of the medical branch to eliminate health disparities.

He also serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Consortium for Health and Galveston as Assistant Professor in the Departments of General Practice and Preventive Medicine and Public Health.

New Faculty

New sections on the pathology Patricia Aguilar, Alexander Bukreyev, Naomi Forrester, Alex Freiberg, Nikos Vasilakis and Dr. Bin Gong.