This October, three students in the Orthotics and Prosthetics Program at Baylor College of Medicine traveled to Guatemala with the Range of Motion Project (ROMP). The nonprofit organization is dedicated to providing prosthetic and orthotic care to those without access to these services.
Since 2005, the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Baylor and the Department of Pathology at Texas Children’s Hospital have played an important role in global health initiatives, first in Africa and later extending their outreach to Southeast Asia.
Meeting the medical needs of Houston’s homeless veterans was the focus of the annual Houston Homeless Stand Down in October, but the community outreach project also served to provide training to healthcare professionals, including Baylor residents, on treating this unique patient population.
President Barack Obama hosted the White House Frontiers Conference last month at University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University and among the featured exhibits was one that included work by the lab of Dr. Andreas Tolias, associate professor of neuroscience at Baylor.
The You FIRST program at Baylor has launched a new program to recognize faculty and staff for the outstanding work that they do, built around the College values of Respect, Innovation, Integrity, Teamwork and Excellence.
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