UTMB Specialty Care Center at Victory Lakes

This is no April Fool’s Joke! Come network with other UTMB providers and learn more about each others practice. Please attend our first Physician Networking Breakfast. We are setting up an opportunity to discuss your specialty to increase your referral base.

Join us for a Physician Networking Breakfast
On Friday, April 1st 7:30-8:30
Guest Speaker: Dr. Tristi Muir
Medical Director of Pelvic Health and Continence Center

Specialty Care Center at Victory Lakes
In Conference room 2.205

RSVP to Shirley Hilton at sahilton@utmb.edu or by
calling (832) 505-1022.
To reserve your opportunity to share information on your services call (832) 505-1022.

UTMB Health is again co-sponsoring with the Galveston Chamber of Commerce “Celebrating Women: Mind, Body, Spirit,” the 2011 version of the annual Galveston women’s conference. Our featured keynote speaker is Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the New York Times bestseller Eat, Pray, Love. Also taking the podium will be UTMB Health physicians, Dr. Marc Shabot and Dr. Colleen Silva, Medical Director of the Breast Health and Imaging Center. In addition, participants will learn about body language from expert Jan Hargrave, human trafficking from regional authority Constance Rossiter and estate planning from attorneys Wendy Farner and Diane Perrin. Also speaking will be Laura Contreras-Rowe on inspiring Latina women and Pamela Rowe Smith, CEO of The Woman’s Foundation, on what the power of a single woman can accomplish.

Celebrating Women: Mind, Body Spirit will take place Thursday, March 31 from 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. at the Moody Gardens Convention Center. Click here to learn more or purchase an all day ticket. Make sure to stop by our booth for additional information on Victory Lakes.

The blood mobile will be in the Victory Lakes front parking lot (2440 Gulf Freeway South) from 10am to 4pm. Donors are required to have a photo I.D. to donate blood. Successful donors will receive T-shirts. Blood collected by UTMB gives the gift of life to patients at UTMB. Each unit of blood collected can save up to three lives.

To be a donor at UTMB, you must weigh 110 pounds or more and be at least 17 years old. Blood donors should eat before donating and inform the blood bank staff if they are taking medications. Still not sure if you can donate? Click here for additional Blood Donation Eligibility Requirements or for more information, call 281-534-8836.

The annual peer-to-peer survey identifies specialists who are considered by fellow physicians to be the most skilled in their fields and most qualified for reviewing and treating complex medical conditions.

Best Doctors Inc., founded in 1989, asked physicians, “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?” The results of the survey showed that UTMB Health physicians in various fields are considered among the best in the nation.

These Best Doctors include Victory Lakes physicians:

Kelly D. Carmichael, Orthopedic Surgery
Sandra S. Hatch, Radiation Oncology
Thomas D. Kimbrough, Surgical Oncology
Ruth Ellen Levine, Psychiatry
Ronald W. Lindsey, Orthopedic Surgery
Avi Markowitz, Medical Oncology and Hematology
Eduardo Orihuela, Urology
Linda G. Phillips, Plastic Surgery
Daneshvari R. Solanki, Anesthesiology/Pain Med
Sidney A. Worsham III, General Surgery
David Yngve, Orthopedic Surgery

 For more information about Best Doctors Inc., visit www.bestdoctors.com. To see the list of UTMB Health physicians, click here. To schedule an appointment with our Victory Lakes Physicians please contact us at 832-505-1000.