Volume 8, Issue 12
July 19, 2018

Fall 2018 Course Registration Now Open

SBMI Students:

Remember that regular registration for fall 2018 courses opened on July 16 and will run through August 26 in myUTH. If you have questions regarding registration, email the Office of Academic Affairs at SBMIAcademics@uth.tmc.edu

SBMI Bragging Points

Members of the SBMI Community have recently achieved noteworthy accomplishments. We want to acknowledge and congratulate them.

• Assistant Professor Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD now serves on the e-Health Advisory Committee as an expert in telemedicine. She was appointed by the Executive Commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). The e-Health Advisory Committee advises the HHS System agencies on strategic planning, policy, rules and services related to the use of health information technology, health information exchanges systems, telemedicine, telehealth, and home telemonitoring services.
  
• SBMI Alumnus Ashish Joshi, PhD, MPH was recently named Senior Associate Dean of Students and Academic Affairs for the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Joshi earned his PhD from SBMI in 2011.
• Professor Dean Sittig, PhD, co-authored a recently published empirical research article with his research group titled “Methods for Patient-Centered Interface Design of test Result Display in Online Portals.”

If any SBMI alumni or current students want to announce a recent professional accomplishment in a future Academic Update, please share the details with Chelsea Overstreet via email at Chelsea.E.Overstreet@uth.tmc.edu. 

Upcoming SBMI Recruiting Events

Several SBMI faculty and staff members will be traveling in the coming months to attend conferences to promote our degree programs. We invite any prospective students or alumni in the area to visit us during these events.

• Aug. 21 & 22 – Public health Informatics Conference in Atlanta, GA
• Sept. 23-25 – AHIMA Convention and Exhibit in Miami, FL
• Nov. 4-7 – AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium in San Francisco, CA
• Nov. 15-17 – ABRCMS 2018 (Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students) in Indianapolis, IN

• TMC News published a spotlight on Professor Lex Frieden. MA and his impactful work as a disability rights activist.
• Professor James Langabeer, Ph.D., was featured in a segment on Houston Matters, the noontime talk show of Houston Public Media's KUHF Radio. Langabeer was in the first segment on a proposed increase in ambulance fees..

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