From the start of the Fall 2022 semester to the end of the holiday season, EnMed students have ignited a spark in their greater local community by inspiring multiple service projects and events. On World Homeless Day, observed on Oct. 10, EnMed students showed up to support countless members of the Houston community, finding ways to […]
Students Place in Innovation Summit Competition
On Dec. 3, The Biomedical Entrepreneurial Network (BEN) at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School hosted its annual Healthcare Innovation Summit, and one group from our EnMed program was chosen to participate in the pitch competition. BEN welcomes high-performing students from across the country to engage in innovative learning to develop and advance health care […]
Winners Announced for Fourth-Annual Innovy Awards
Winners of the fourth-annual Innovy Awards, a program made to celebrate the integration of engineering and medicine among our first-year students, were announced. The top three groups from POM 1 EnMed were selected to present their proposals, and the winners are as follows: First Place ABD – Normalization of Physical Abdominal Exams Team Members: Sarah […]
EnMed Fourth-year Student, Roth, Publishes Case
EnMed fourth-year student Abigail Roth’s work in an elective pathology course has led to a published journal article and presentation of her findings on a rarely seen case. The opportunity emerged out of an EnMed course Roth completed while working with pathologists at renowned Houston Methodist Hospital. Roth’s colleagues and mentors in the Department of […]
Pettigrew Inspires Development of a Powerful New MRI
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 […]