Suresh K. Bhavnani, PhD, and Co-PI Elizabeth Lyons, PhD, MPH, have received a Faculty Development Educational Innovations Grant from UTMB’s Academy of Master Teachers. Their project, titled "Teaching Dietetic Interns How to Transform the Weight-Management Mental Models of Patients,” will use a visual analytical method to solicit and transform the misconceptions of patients related to health behaviors such as weight management.

This month’s Science and Communities Interact (SCI) Café, a community discussion that allows community members to meet with scientists to engage in casual dialogs about research-related topics, featured David Wilde, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Wilde is a Program Officer at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), which is part of the National Institutes of Health.

Roberto P. Garofalo, M.D., who holds numerous UTMB titles, including Sealy and Smith Professor of Pediatrics and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics, and who is the PI of the Bronchiolitis Multidisciplinary Translational Team, received an award of $8,786,017 for a competitive renewal of a program project grant P01 AI062885 entitled “Epithelial Innate Signaling in Airway Inflammation and Remodeling.”

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