By UTMB COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT
"Creating Value in Health Care Through Big Data” will be the topic of the next Healthy Health Policy Lunch and Learn Lecture. Joachim Roski will present at noon Wednesday in the Levin Hall Dining Room on the UTMB Galveston campus.
Roski is an author and principal at Booz, Allen, Hamilton, a health consulting, services and research company. The series is sponsored by the Offices of the President and Health Policy and Legislative Affairs, and co-sponsored by the Center to Eliminate Health Disparities and the UTMB student chapters of the American Medical Association and the Texas Medical Association. For more information, contact Becky Trout at rltrout@utmb.edu or 409-747-2734.
Optical Children’s Boutique
UTMB Health Eye Center and the UTMB Optical Center recently opened its new “Children’s Boutique” within the optical center in the Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences building in Galveston at 700 University Blvd. The Children’s Boutique carries affordable kids’ eyewear with trendy and stylish eyeglasses from brands such as MiraFlex, RayBan, Kensie Girl, Thalia, Lilly Putlzer, Ninja Turtles, Cantera and K12. For questions, call 409-747-5823.
UTMB No. 1 Online Nursing Program
Graduate Programs announced its Fall 2014 Online Nursing Grad Rankings according to students, enumerating the best graduate programs in the country based solely on ratings and reviews from current or recent graduate students posted on graduateprograms.com.This year’s No. 1 online nursing graduate program is UTMB’s School of Nursing. Graduateprograms.com assigns 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings cover topics such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid and quality of network. Rankings were compiled using data gathered between Sept. 1, 2012 and Sept. 30, 2014, and encompassed reviews posted by more than 70,000 students in more than 1,600 graduate programs nationwide.
Aerospace Medicine
UTMB’s Aerospace Medicine Team — Jim Vanderploeg, Tarah Castleberry, Chuck Mathers and Becky Blue — were recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration for research on Human Spaceflight through the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation. Of the nine core universities and five affiliate members of the COE, the UTMB team was singled out for its research contributions.
Save the Date: Forum on Aging
The Sealy Center on Aging in conjunction with Research Services is having the 18th Annual Forum on Aging Poster Session on Dec. 2. The forum is to inform gerontology researchers and the UTMB community of the types of aging research going on at UTMB and of the resources available from the Sealy Center on Aging. The event will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Levin Hall Dining Room. The event is free and open to the public, and food and refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Tony DiNuzzo at 409-266-9658 or adinuzzo@utmb.edu, or visit the Forum on Aging website at www.utmb.edu/scoa.