Thursday, February 8, 2024 12-1 p.m. (CDT) AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center 1900 University Avenue Austin, TX Lunch will be provided for in person attendees. Please note any dietary restrictions when registering. Dessert reception with Professor Duff will follow the in-person event. The Oskar Fischer Lecture Series features invited… read more
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Innovation Minds: Pediatric Research in Epilepsy Surgery, February 16-18 2024
Save the date for the Paediatric Research in Epilepsy Surgery, February 16-18 2024. More information here
Dave F. Clarke, MD Receives Penry Award from the American Epilepsy Society
Dave F. Clarke, MD, professor of neurology and pediatrics at The University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School and holder of the Kozmetsky Family Endowed Chair in Pediatric Epilepsy, received the J. Kiffin Penry Award for Excellence in Epilepsy Care by the American Epilepsy Society (AES) at its recent… read more
Visionaries: Right people. Right place. Right time.
It’s hard to overstate the significance of this moment for patients and families in Central Texas: 140 years of expertise at a Tier 1 research university is converging with some of the brightest minds in health care and medical education to build The University of Texas Medical Center. Meet the… read more
Delan Lui wins Dr. Ayyez & Shelena Lalji’s Family student scholar award
We are proud to share that Delan Lui won the Dr. Ayyez and Shelena Lalji & Family student scholar award for repair and regenerative mechanism in ALS for “Project integrating artificial intelligence (AI) modules (language models and reinforcement learning) in Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) to restore efficient communications for ALS patients”
Senior Scientist Seminar Series: Dean Claudia Lucchinetti
This installment of the Health Transformation Research Institute’s Senior Scientist Seminar Series features Claudia F. Lucchinetti, M.D. Lucchinetti is the dean of Dell Medical School. She is the senior vice president for medical affairs for The University of Texas at Austin and holds the Frank and Charmaine Denius Distinguished Dean’s… read more
New Grants awarded
A $3.5 million Department of Defense Clinical Trial Award is funding a study on trauma-informed parent-child functioning intervention for military veterans. Suzannah Creech is the primary investigator with Justin Benzer and Paul Rathouz as co-investigators. The Central Texas Veterans Health Care System is partnering with Dell Med on the study.… read more
Benjamin Umlauf: Putting Lifesaving Medicine in the Right Package
For many, the prospect of a coming delivery is exciting. But for Benjamin Umlauf, Ph.D., it’s not what’s in the package that holds his interest; it’s the how — the delivery method itself. And patients with brain conditions may soon benefit from his perspective. Umlauf, an assistant professor in Dell… read more