Alter egos aren’t only for superheroes and superstars. In this compilation, learn what inspires some of your UT Health San Antonio colleagues to make lives better, both on and off campus.

Essential work is happening inside the School of Nursing’s Center for Simulation Innovation, where some of the most sophisticated medical simulators are helping prepare practice-ready nurses.

Patricia Abrego’s journey to a clinical study using radiation therapy to relieve osteoarthritis joint pain began when she was 10 years old.

After a childhood of physical and emotional abuse and years of medications and therapies that did not work, one patient’s agony was finally alleviated after undergoing electroconvulsive therapy.

On any given day, at least half a dozen people congregated across from the Dental Hygiene office to admire two black vulture chicks hatched to a family nesting on campus the past four years.

The surge of growth and reproductive hormones that accompany certain life stages increase the flow of blood to multiple body sites. This increase of blood, estrogen and progesterone alters the response of gum tissue to bacteria that accumulate around teeth and under the gumline.