EnMed will host its next Student Innovation Symposium from 1 to 6 p.m. on Monday, June 28. The event will celebrate the current research and innovation accomplishments of its medical students. “From the first day students join EnMed, they are tasked with identifying current challenges in health care and offering solutions to address those problems,” […]
New equipment brings life to respiratory physiology block
EnMed faculty recently acquired new equipment to help enhance the respiratory physiology class for first-year students. The new devices include a plethysmograph, chest drainage systems, spirometers, lung simulators and ventilators. Two of the ventilators received were provided by JamVent, a company that markets a low-cost emergency ventilator developed by researchers at Imperial College of London […]
Innovation Director Receives Grant Funding for Heart Project
EnMed’s director of innovation, Dr. Michael R. Moreno, recently received a Presidential Clinical Research Partnership (PCRP) Grant for his work to improve device-based therapies for patients in end-stage heart failure. The grant provides funding of up to $200,000 over a two-year period to stimulate new collaborations between Texas A&M University researchers and clinical partners. Moreno, […]
EnMed students present eye-tracking research at medical conference
Histology, the study of the microscopic structure of biological tissues, is often a difficult subject for medical students because of its visual nature. This challenge led EnMed associate professor, Dr. Ian Murray, to study the use of eye-tracking as an aid for the class. More than 10 EnMed students also participated in the pilot study […]
Texas A&M EnMed Students Pay it Forward with Mentoring
While it has only been two years since Texas A&M University’s Engineering Medicine (EnMed) accepted its first class of medical students in Houston, EnMed’s students have already started giving back to their local community through a fully student-run mentorship program. More than 30 EnMed students currently serve as mentors to over 60 mentees in high […]