UTHealthNeurosciences

“Now I wake up every day and feel better. I’m Kiara again.” After years of painful symptoms, Kiara Bess found hope at #UTHealthHouston. With care from Swati Pradeep, DO, she received treatment for two rare neurological conditions while pregnant. Read more: go.uth.edu/KBess

Please join us for a presentation by University of Florida Chair of Neurosurgery Brian Hoh, MD, MBA, who will present an update on intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD) at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 25 at Hotel ZaZa Museum District. @jacquesmorcosmd @RocChenMD @UTHealthStroke

Sergeant Danny Beckworth and Frank Bennett Harvie Jr. achieved incredible fitness milestones after surviving strokes, from cycling and marathons to jujitsu and 10-mile races. Learn how #UTHealthHouston helps stroke survivors prevent recurrence at go.uth.edu/ASharrief.

UTHealth Houston pediatric neurosurgeons Manish Shah, MD, and Jeff Treiber, MD, completed the first ExcelsiusGPS™-assisted pediatric neurosurgery case in the Texas Medical Center. @uthealthhouston is super proud of you both and your team! @jacquesmorcosmd @memorialhermann

#MorcosChallenge In retrospect, perhaps the vertebral artery should have been wrapped with a soft telfa patty, to shield its wall from the rubber vessel loop used to mobilize it and maintain it in the transposed position @EvaWuMD @UTHNeuro @neurosurgatlas @cvsection @snisinfo

This position is still open for US board certified epileptologists who want to care for people (adult+peds) with genetic forms of epilepsy. Strong clinical genetic support and research environment provided.

🚀 From diagnosis to prognosis for 85 Neurodevelopmental Disorders & Genetic Epilepsies 👉 Explore genotype-phenotype associations for >100 symptoms, complete with age-adjusted risk curves that plug directly into natural-history models The NDD-Portal: lalresearchgroup.org

#GRICON2025 our team is looking forward to meet many families & scientist and other stakeholders to move things for that people with NMDA and AMPA receptor disorders for a better tomorrow 🤝

🧠 Peek inside @UTHealth_Neuro as Co-Director @azher_aidan shares what sets their residency apart. Great insight for #medstudents and #neuro hopefuls! Stay tuned for more program spotlights.

New paper on advanced missense variant classification from our team: Our para-SAME/DIFF extension pulls in paralogue evidence, expanding interpretable residues five-fold across all genetic disease. Great work by @BruengerTobias & team. Link to paper: link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Watch and share this special msg. from #GBM Survivor and @theABTA 2025 National Conference Keynote Speaker @Jas0nTharp ahead of #GBMAwarenessDay on July 16. #glioblastoma #glioblastomaawareness #ABTA2025NationalConference

Jennifer E.S. Beauchamp, PhD, RN, will lead a new study that aims to prevent depression among stroke patients thanks to a $6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. #UTHealthHouston uth.edu/news/story/new…

An eye exam to see why Verna Blackwell was having vision distortion issues led UTHealth Houston optometrist Arnoldo Treviño, DO, to send her to the ER, where a scan revealed a brain tumor. His recognition and fast action helped put her life back on track. go.uth.edu/Verna

UTHealth Houston doctors Ramesh Hariharan, Alejandro Vidal Margenat, and Sunil Krishnan worked together to develop a first-of-its-kind radiation ablation procedure for ventricular tachycardia, a procedure that already helped one Texas man. Full story: tinyurl.com/4fbed52z

2nd Annual UTH Neurosonology Boot Camp is in session! Fellows, Residents, and Faculty are receiving hands-on training in Transcranial Doppler (TCD) and Cartiod Ultrasound (CUS). #neuro #sonography #TCD #CUS #uthealth

Our neurosurgery department came together this weekend to celebrate this year's excellent residency and fellowship graduates. Congratulations to Drs. Abushehab, D’Amato, Ilyas, Lekka, McCormack, Treiber, Withrow, and Zeineddine! @jacquesmorcosmd @NeurosurgUTH @UTHealthHouston

Join us for the 2025 Stroke Transitions of Care and Post-Stroke Care Conference! Oct. 3-4, 2025 at Hotel Zaza- Museum District, Houston, Tx Connect with experts, explore innovations in recovery & rehab, and advance post-stroke care. Register: med.uth.edu/neurosciences/…

Great job by Laura Zima, PGY 6 in our neurosurgical residency program, who presented a poster -- S-Adenosyl Methionine Attenuates Depression Symptoms in Female Mice after Traumatic Brain Injury -- at the annual symposium of the National Neurotrauma Society this in Philadelphia.

Supporting our youngest stroke survivors every step of the way. At the Stroke Institute, we provide specialized care and resources to help children recover and thrive. 💙 #PediatricStrokeAwarenessMonth #StrokeRecovery #YoungWarriors #StrokeAwarenessMonth #Pediatrics

Join us in congratulating Jacques Morcos, MD, FRCS, FAANS, on being named president of the International Meningioma Society! Morcos began serving his two-year term in May. #McGovernMedSchool