When the Hess Corp. donated its 2016 Hess Toy Truck and Dragster to Baylor College of Medicine it was a chance to share the gift of giving with affiliated hospitals and partnered Houston Independent School District schools.
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.
Baylor president, CEO and executive dean Dr. Paul Klotman recently told an assembly of more than 200 people that he fully expected one of them to have his job in the future. He wasn’t speaking to faculty members or even medical students but rather the inaugural graduates of the Baylor College of Medicine Academy at Ryan.
Baylor College of Medicine doctors train for a variety of patients and ailments, but one patient this past summer was something they never expected. The Houston Zoo, just a block away from the Baylor campus, sought advice and treatment concerning its 42-year-old orangutan, Cheyenne.
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