Dec. 4, 2017
- WHAT: The McGovern Academy of Oslerian
Medicine, along with Texas Medical Association’s (TMA’s) University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston (UTMB Health) Student Chapter, will give 100 Galveston kids
a free bicycle helmet through TMA’s Hard Hats for Little Heads program. UTMB Health volunteers will
teach parents and children how wearing a properly fitted helmet can protect
them from most head injuries when riding.
TMA’s Hard Hats for Little Heads program
was created in 1994 to help prevent head injuries by encouraging helmet use for
all sports on wheels: bicycling, skateboarding, rollerblading, and riding a
scooter. TMA has given 280,000 helmets to Texas children since the program
began.
- WHEN:
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, from 5-7 pm
- WHERE: UTMB Health Galveston campus, in front of the Jamail
Student Center
- WHO: UTMB Health medical students and Galveston
children
- WHY: Texas physicians and medical students want Texas children
to be active — and safe. Wearing a bicycle helmet is an easy way to prevent
injury. Head injury is the most common cause of death and serious disability
from bike crashes.
Note: Free parking
available at Mechanic and 12th in the DA Lot.
Hard Hats for
Little Heads is made possible through a grant from TMA
Foundation, the
association’s philanthropic arm. The program is supported in 2017 by top donors
— Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, an anonymous physician and spouse, TMAF Make-A-Difference
donors, and the Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio — and
generous gifts from TMA and TMA Alliance members, and friends of medicine.
TMA is the largest state medical society in the nation,
representing more than 50,000 physician and medical student members. It is
located in Austin and has 110 component county medical societies around the
state. TMA’s key objective since 1853 is to improve the health of all Texans.
Contact: Brent Annear (512) 370-1381;
cell: (512) 656-7320; email: brent.annear[at]texmed[dot]org
Marcus
Cooper (512) 370-1382; cell: (512) 650-5336; email: marcus.cooper[at]texmed[dot]org
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Last Updated On
February 18, 2020
Originally Published On
December 04, 2017