Author: Amanda Garza
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Three abstracts co-authored by Dr. Kamlesh Yadav, instructional associate professor at the Intercollegiate School of Engineering Medicine, were recently featured at the 2021 annual meeting for the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). The ASHG’s annual meeting is the largest human genetics and genomics meeting and exposition in the world. Held Oct. 18-22, the meeting […]
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Women in Medicine Month was created by the American Medical Association to recognize the contributions and accomplishments of a growing number of women in the profession. At EnMed, women in the class of 2023 also represent the school’s first group of women physicianeers. They discuss what it means to not only be a woman in […]
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Engineering Medicine (EnMed) recently welcomed its third and largest class of future physicianeers. The class of 2025 consists of 49 students — 40% are female, 32% are from out of state, the average MCAT is 513.5 and the average GPA is 3.75. Their undergraduate degrees represent almost every engineering discipline, as well as computer science, […]
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Second-year Engineering Medicine (EnMed) student Sandra Zhi’s passion for capturing memories through photography started long before her medical school journey. However, when the opportunity arose to run for class historian, she saw the position as the perfect chance to use her hobby to help ensure that the class of 2024’s time at EnMed was […]
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Engineering Medicine (EnMed) recently held its first Discovery Gala in the new facility overlooking the Texas Medical Center. The formal event is a new tradition for EnMed, coordinated by medical students to celebrate the end of their first year of medical school and to honor second-year students for completing pre-clerkship. This year’s gala was organized […]
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EnMed leads the world in training “physicianeers” as medical inventors by offering medical doctorates and master’s degrees in engineering simultaneously Texas A&M University President M. Katherine Banks has announced approval to establish the Intercollegiate School of Engineering Medicine effective Sept. 1, 2021. The new school will be the organizational home of the EnMed initiative, which […]
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Introduction to Engineering Innovation in Medicine is a required summer course for all incoming Engineering Medicine (EnMed) students. The course is designed to prepare the students to be successful in the program. It offers a survey of the unique program curriculum, networking opportunities through expert panel sessions and seminars with collaborative professionals located within the […]
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Engineering Medicine (EnMed) held its first White Coat Ceremony for the class of 2025 in its new facility at Innovation Plaza on Monday, July 19. The ceremony took place on the building’s 17th floor, offering panoramic views of the Texas Medical Center and beyond from more than 200 feet in the air. “Today, I’m […]
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During the EnMed Student Innovation Symposium on June 28, Dr. Alessandro Grattoni, the Frank J. and Jean Raymond Centennial Chair Professor of Nanomedicine at Houston Methodist Hospital, announced the first recipients of the Craig Brown and Suzanne Smith & Frank and Jean Raymond Engineering Medicine Capstone Innovator Awards. Recipients of the capstone awards will work […]
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Study finds substantially different biological characteristics in the tumors of African American men, pointing to possible contribution to higher prostate cancer death rates It’s been well documented that African-American men are more likely to be diagnosed and ultimately die from prostate cancer. While the cause of this disparity is often attributed to cultural and socioeconomic […]
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Engineering Medicine’s (EnMed) leadership and two current first-year students, Ramya Varadarajan and Robby Loving, recently met with more than 100 high-achieving students from Houston Independent School District (HISD) in an exclusive informational town hall to learn more about EnMed and potential scholarship opportunities through the Craig and Galen Brown Foundation. “EnMed represents one of the […]
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While students in Engineering Medicine’s (EnMed) class of 2024 started their medical school journey amidst a pandemic that often prevented them from gathering together, that did not stop social chairs Madeline Franke and Kevin Birdsall from facilitating connections with their other classmates while maintaining a distance that kept everyone safe. As restrictions begin to […]