The biennial Joe Thorne Gilbert Lecture Series brings outstanding, community-focused individuals in the field of medicine to discuss great ideas and vital issues current in the health professions. This distinguished event honors the legacy of Dr. Gilbert, a physician whose kindness and expertise healed many people in the Austin community. This year The Health Professions Office presents Dr. Paul Farmer - Global Humanitarian.
The University of Texas at Austin-American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists' (UT-APhA-ASP) will host an interdisciplinary autism panel. This panel is a discussion between healthcare providers about autism spectrum disorders. It is aimed towards current and future healthcare professionals.
CARE Research Day is an annual rehabilitation research symposium dedicated towards interdisciplinary interaction and advancing the state-of-the-art in patient care. The event boasts student posters of rehabilitation research around UT and beyond and an influential keynote speaker.
Dr. Camara P. Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. She seeks to broaden the national health debate to include not only universal access to high quality health care, but also attention to the social determinants of health (including poverty) and the social determinants of equity (including racism).
The Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) is a unique, interactive experience designed to help participants appreciate what it may be like to live in poverty. Participants will explore the realities of living with a small budget, limited time, and high stress by role-playing as familial units challenged by a specific set of circumstances.
The LaVerne Gallman Distinguished Lectureship in Nursing presents "Talkin' Bout a Revolution: Advancing Health Systems in Kenya and Austin by Building and Leveraging Academic Research."
Primary Care Progress at UT invites you to sharpen your communication skills with STEMprov!
Dr. Jewel Mullen, Associate Dean for Health Equity and Associate Professor in the departments of Population Health and Internal Medicine at Dell Medical School, will be delivering the November Health and Humanities Research Seminar presentation titled, "You Can't Fill a Vessel at an Empty Well: Cultivating Empathy to Achieve Health Equity."
Healthier Texas is a first-of-its-kind, joint initiative designed to rapidly reduce the burden of preventable chronic disease in the Lone Star State. In partnership with Texas’ leading institutions, agencies, organizations, and corporations, the Healthier Texas collaboration empowers Texans to lead healthier lives and build healthier communities.
This conference’s goal is to improve the quality of care delivered to people with mental health problems by providing timely and clinically useful information for the practicing clinician.