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About EnMed

The EnMed program, founded in 2019, is a collaboration between Texas A&M’s School of Engineering Medicine and the state’s top-ranked Houston Methodist Hospital established to transform health care through the development and training of physicianeers, the creation of medical technologies, and translational research.

The EnMed physicianeer is an innovative problem-solving doctor uniquely qualified to address some of health care’s greatest challenges. These graduates receive a Medical Doctorate and Master of Engineering degree focused on the design and implementation of impactful medical technologies in the same four years through a revolutionary curriculum. 

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EnMed News and Events

M2 Students

EnMed Students Excelled with Prestigious Podium Presentations at National and International Conferences

Congratulations to M2 students Aamuktha Porika and Koyal Ansingkar for their remarkable achievements at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2024 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado and the International Society of Computational Biology (ISMB) 2024 Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Their posters were accepted at both conferences!  In Denver, Ansingkar’s original research, “Computational […]

Pettigrew Aspires to Bold Initiatives in A&M System

Pettigrew Aspires to Bold Initiatives in A&M System

Six years ago, Dr. Roderic Pettigrew came to Texas A&M University to start and lead a one-of-a-kind School of Engineering Medicine (ENMED). Today there is nowhere else in the world where students earn a medical degree and an engineering master’s degree in the same four years […]

Regents Approve $15 Million for ENMED Buildout in Houston

Regents Approve $15 Million for ENMED Buildout in Houston

Regents of The Texas A&M University System today approved spending $15 million to expand lab space on two levels of Texas A&M’s ENMED Tower adjacent to the Texas Medical Center in Houston. […]

First 'physicianeer' graduates from Texas A&M and Houston Methodist are hoping to change health care

First 'physicianeer' graduates from Texas A&M and Houston Methodist are hoping to change health care

If there’s one thing that everyone seems to hate about hospitals, it’s the gowns. The “physicianeers” from the EnMed program at Texas A&M University and Houston Methodist are hoping to change that. The gowns, which tie in the back and often leave patients feeling exposed, are designed so staff can put them on someone who is immobile or unconscious […]

Texas A&M Dean Roderic Pettigrew Inspires Development of a Powerful New MRI by Siemens Healthineers

Texas A&M Dean Roderic Pettigrew Inspires Development of a Powerful New MRI by Siemens Healthineers

Health care providers use MRI scanners to diagnose, stage, monitor, and research disease. But what if an MRI could also be used to detect threats early and help prevent severe consequences? A scanner that could see coronary or vascular diseases before they cause a heart attack or stroke, for example, or identify prostate cancer in its earliest stage before a biopsy is done could […]

EnMed Commencement Ceremony

Nobel Laureates & Inventor of the Internet Colloquy

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