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HealthLeader brings you the latest, most reliable news and information to help you make better decisions about your personal health.
Our feature stories deliver solid, timely data in a lively style and are written by recognized medical/scientific journalists.
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The UT Health Science Center at Houston boasts more than 1,000 “health leaders” as its sources—clinicians and faculty members who are experts in medicine, nursing, dentistry, public health, human genetics and biomedical science.
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Karen O. Krakower, editor of HealthLeader, brings with her 25 years of experience as both a medical writer and editor. Karen’s work has appeared in over 50 journals, magazines, newspapers and anthologies. Her additional work with AIDS organizations, organ transplant and hospice provides a necessary depth to her understanding of current health information needs.
Under her management, HealthLeader has received seven awards for outstanding writing and web design and content. Karen also leads seminars at UT Health Science Center at Houston in scientific writing, lectures on health and its impact on media, and speaks frequently in the community on various health-related topics.
Synonymous with the mission of HealthLeader, Karen strives to inform, engage and inspire readers through her work using the wealth of expertise at The UT Health Science Center at Houston.
Please feel free to email Karen at HealthLeader with suggestions, comments on stories or to request additional information on health issues.
Web designer Sophia Solis came to the Department of Institutional Advancement in 2001 with seven years experience at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She is responsible for HealthLeader’s eye-catching graphics, layout and design and content management. Under her watch, HealthLeader received the national “e-Healthcare Award” for overall excellence and The Web Marketing Association's Web award for outstanding achievement in Web site development.
Sophia is also the designer behind the sleek “look” of several other websites and publications for the UT Health Science Center at Houston. She also maintains both the content and design of several hundred of our institution’s Web pages.
Richard D. Bebermeyer, D.D.S., M.B.A.
Dr. Richard Bebermeyer teaches clinical general dentistry to advanced students at the UT Dental Branch at Houston. As professor and vice-chair of the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials at the Dental Branch, Dr. Bebermeyer's teaching and research interests include prevention and health promotion, evidence-based dentistry and practice management.
Dr. Bebermeyer earned his dental degree at Washington University in St. Louis. He also earned his Master's in Business Administration, specializing in health care administration, from Southern Illinois University. While Dr. Bebermeyer has participated in a number of national and international dental organizations, his most recent interest is teaching evidence-based dentistry to colleagues in developing nations.
Evelyn C.Y. Chan, M.D., M.S.
Dr. Evelyn Chan is a practicing internist and biomedical ethicist. As an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and as director of bioethics for the Department of Medicine at the UT-Houston Medical School, Dr. Chan balances a clinical practice with teaching and research concerning primary care and ethical issues.
Her research interests include physician-patient communication, informed consent, new media and preventive health care. Dr. Chan helps patients and health-care providers sort through the choices available to them through her service on the Hermann Hospital Ethics Committee, the UT-Committee for the Protection for Human Subjects and the Texas State Prostate Cancer Advisory Committee.
On the national level, Dr. Chan serves as a member of Project JOLT (Joining Organizations with Leading Technologies), an initiative led by the National Cancer Institute to link grass-roots patient organizations and leading technology companies with federal efforts using the new media to improve health-care promotion and communication.
Carlos A. Moreno, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Family medicine is Dr. Carlos A. Moreno's passion. As professor and chairman of the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine at UT-Houston Medical School, Dr. Moreno cares for patients while sharing his knowledge with medical students and residents.
Dr. Moreno earned his medical degree at Harvard. He also has a Master of Science in Public Health degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. One of many leadership roles he holds is as a member of the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Training Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry. As Vice President of Community Programs and Education Outreach at UT-Houston, he leads the university's efforts to promote diversity on campus. Dr. Moreno is chief of family practice at Memorial Hermann Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital in Houston.
Jon R. Wiener, PhD
Jon R. Wiener, PhD has been the assistant dean for academic affairs at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) since 1999 and assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Therapeutics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center since 1994.
He received a BS and MS in microbiology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a PhD in microbiology from the University of Virginia. After a post-doctoral fellowship in microbiology at Duke University, in 1988 he joined the faculty of Duke University in the Department of Surgery.
His research focuses on aberrant tyrosine kinase signaling and protease secretion in human ovarian cancer, with other interests being infectious virology, and the education and training of biomedical scientists.
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Make an appointment
with your stress—
and keep it!
Set aside a specified time of day, say 3:00 to 3:20 P.M. Keep this appointment with yourself—make it as important as a client or a child’s reading time.
Now, let the stress pour out of you, all the worry, guilt, what-ifs, if-onlys. Hold nothing back. Imagine every possible scenario that intrudes on you, day and night. Funnel it into that 20-minute period.
When the bell goes off, you are done, finished, until your next appointment with yourself.
When you’re tempted to let stressful thoughts crawl across your mind, remind yourself that you have 20 minutes to address them—tomorrow.
