Media Spotlight

During September 2005, 116 media placements about The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston reached a potential audience of more than 40 million people. The following is a sample of those media placements.

Dr. Camille Lloyd says that depression, anger and anxiety are likely to linger with victims of Hurricane Katrina, but practical support can help, KTRK-TV, Sept. 1.

As the City of Houston opens a UT Health Science Center medical clinic adjacent to the Hurricane Katrina Relief shelter at the George R. Brown (GRB) Convention Center, Dr. Mike McKinney says, “We’ve set up enough to keep them alive before they go to the hospital,” KPRC-TV, Sept. 2.

At the GRB Convention Center, clinic medical director Dr. Mike McKinney says, “This is a good MASH clinic here, offering primary care and other specialties,” KHOU-TV, Sept. 3.

UT Medical School physician Dr. Richard Bradley does search-and-rescue with the elite Texas Task Force One in parts of Louisiana flooded during the hurricane, KTRK-TV, Sept. 6.

In an exclusive report on the UT Health Science Center clinic at the GRB, Christi Myers enthusiastically reports that Hurricane Katrina evacuees “are getting X-Rays and even dental care right now. They have a pharmacy and everything is like a hospital – and it is calm and smooth and nice – the people are happy that they are getting treatment that they need. It is a wonderful program!” KTRK-TV news at 4, 5 and 6 p.m., Sept. 6.

In the UT Health Science Center clinic at the GRB, Dr. Andrew Harper talks about the psychological trauma of separated children missing their parents, KTRK-TV, Sept. 7.

Dr. Robert Emery and Dean Stanley Schultz demonstrate how UT Medical School improvements made after Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 have included berms and new “submarine” doors for hurricane preparedness, KTRK-TV news at 4 and 6 p.m., Sept. 23.

Drs. James H. “Red” Duke and Brent King, with program manager Doug Tindall, provide an exclusive look at how deployed DREAMS Project “super ambulances” are using their special EMS digital technology to help out after Hurricane Rita in Liberty County, KTRK-TV news at 5 and 6 p.m., Sept. 30.