Debbie Montenegro
Debbie currently serves as the Deputy Director for the Network of the National Library of Medicine South Central Region (NNLM SCR), housed at UNT Health Science Center and funded by the NIH National Library of Medicine. The mission of NNLM is to advance the progress of medicine and improve public health through increased access to health information, training, and grants. She provides training on health resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and coordinates health information outreach throughout the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. She is a professional development trainer on grant writing and is a grant proposal reviewer. Her duties also include course development, classroom and virtual instruction, exhibit coordination, committee involvement, and speaking engagements at conferences. Debbie serves as the liaison in the areas of program planning, consumer health, health literacy, space and astronaut health, for target audiences including K-12 education, science educators, librarians, community organizations, and other health groups.
Debbie Montenegro holds a Master of Science in Information Science with a Health Informatics Specialization from UNT and a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from SMU. While at SMU, Debbie completed an internship where she worked in the lab with a research team of chemists and biologists. Debbie also completed a teacher certification program and taught both Chemistry and Environmental Science at the senior high school level. While obtaining her master’s degree, she worked at a local public library. After obtaining her graduate degree, she worked as the Learning Resource Center Manager at a nursing school, where she assisted nursing students and faculty. Debbie then worked as a Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Analyst for Baylor Scott & White Health, where she worked on NIH, NHLBI, and industry funded studies. She has been published in the Journal of American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging, also in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (an American Heart Association journal), and as a co-author on an abstract presented at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 53rd Annual Meeting.
Sessions in which Debbie Montenegro participates
- Grant Writing Express
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 3
- 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Increase your skills at writing grant proposals! Learn the components needed for a successful proposal, directly from a grant reviewer/funder. Lear...
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Sessions in which Debbie Montenegro attends
- Keynote Session- Thursday
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Mike Kincaid oversees strategic direction and leadership of NASA’s STEM engagement function,...
- Keynote
- The Emerging Commercial Space Industry
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Discovery
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- 50 words: Did you know that CubeSats are becoming more important in the commercial space business? One cube-shaped unit i...
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- Hot-Off-The-Press ISS Research Results
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Mission Briefing Center
- 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Did you know that the International Space Station is a National Laboratory? Get an update on the latest results from science in space to benefit...
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- Quick Lunch- Lunch 2
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery- Lunch 2
- 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | 15 minutes
- This option is for those who would like to grab a quick lunch and then go to a session. We need to make sure we have a good count for food for the ...
- Lunch
- Beyond Surveys: Inventive Evaluation For Informal Educators
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Saturn Club
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Without the structure of a school setting, informal educators must develop creative ways to measure the learning and grow...
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- The Effects of Radiation in Human Spaceflight
- Signup required Gilruth Center - Off-Site Location (take bus) - Mars
- 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Learn about the effect of radiation on cardivascular systems during human spaceflight.
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- Neutral Buoyancy Lab— Visitors’ Gallery (Tour)
- Signup required Tours Off-Site locations (take bus) - NBL BUS
- 3:40 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 35 minutes
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- Networking Reception
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronuat Gallery
- 5:16 PM - 7:00 PM | 1 hour 44 minutes
- Join the ISS National Lab for an evening of networking and learning we will be hosting a free reception to showcase our partners in the...
- Reception
- Thought Leader Series - Challenges of Building the Station Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour
- There will be a special Thought Leaders Series presented at 7:00pm. This year marks 20 years of humans continuously living and working off planet. ...
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- Keynote- Friday
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | 1 hour
- Lara KearneyDeputy Program Manager, Gateway Program Kearney serves as Gateway Deputy Progra...
- Keynote
- Quick Lunch- Lunch 1
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery - Lunch 1
- 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | 15 minutes
- This option is for those who would like to grab a quick lunch and then go to a session. We need to make sure we have a good count for food for the ...
- Lunch
- Biofilms on Station and in You
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- ERC
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Learn how students can participate in an ISSBiology experiment designed to characterize biofilm mass, ...
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- Arctic Astronauts
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Silvermoon
- 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Arctic Astronauts "I'm a Scientist!" Students love learning science with the scientists from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, JPL and Goddar...
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- SEEC Banquet
- Signup required
- 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 4 hours
- Poster/Networking session Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronuat Gallery
- 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Meet the SEEC regional crew member and learn about further STEM resources and opportunity.In addition, we know that many of yo...
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- Saturn V and Rocket Park Tour
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Main Plaza
- 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM | 45 minutes
- Travel by tram and take a look at our Mercury-Redstone and Little Joe II rockets. Explore the mighty Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the...
- Tour
- Explore the History of Manned Space Flight
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Destiny Theater
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Your journey into space begins with a guided tour of Space Center Houston’s Starship Gallery and Space Shuttle Mock-Up. Trace the progression of...
- Tour
- Lunch 1 Saturday
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Astronaut Gallery - Lunch 1
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- Citizen Science-Led Open Data Innovation Through NASA Programs
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Learning Innovation Center- Lab 4
- 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM | 45 minutes
- Learn about NASA Open Innovation programs, where the goal is to make an open collaboration ecosystem for citizen scientis...
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- Keynote- Saturday
- Signup required Space Center Houston (Hosting of all events take place on-line-virtually) - Space Center Theater
- 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | 1 hour
- Holly Ridings She is a mechanical engineer and the first woman to be chief flight director. She leads the elite gro...
- Keynote