Fall 2010 - Mission magazine | UT Health Science Center San Antonio

Irene Chapa, Ph.D. (center, standing), co-director of the Voelcker Biomedical Research Academy, assists first-year Voelcker Academy students in the cardiovascular lab. Student are (L-R); Angelina Iyinbor from Health Careers High School; Ian A. Hardy from Claudia Taylor Johnson High School; Zachary Lindsey from Atonement Academy; Peter Gonzalez from Central Catholic High School; and Briana Bishop from Health Careers High School. After listening to lectures about the cardiovascular system, the students learned how to appropriately insert and intravenous line.

Building bioscientists for tomorrow

The CTRC A-Team

The CTRC A-Team

Proof’s in the pepper

Proof's in the pepper

President William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP

A Message from the President

Strength in neighbors

Strength in neighbors

Voelcker Fund establishes new teacher biosciences academy

Voelcker Fund establishes new teacher biosciences academy

Ebany Espinoza, a Girl Scout and eighth grader at Tafolla Middle School in the San Antonio Independent School District, proudly displays her “Photovoice” project, which is contributing to research undertaken by the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio.

Pictures of health

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Building bridges at home and abroad

Pink breast cancer awareness bracelets

Ravdin ready to raise the bar

CTRC

CTRC Breast Health Clinic: Anatomy of comprehensive care

The CTRC A-Team

The CTRC A-Team members

From vision to virtual reality: UHS collaborates with School of Nursing on ‘virtual hospital’

From vision to virtual reality: UHS collaborates with School of Nursing on 'virtual hospital'

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EDA, community partners help fund virtual hospital

Transforming a doctor’s office into a ‘medical home’

Home, sweet medical home

(Left to right) Ian M. Thompson Jr., executive director of the UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Bonnie and Jon Korbell.

$500,000 gift establishes first Bowers Chair in Texas

Cancer Center Council (CCC)

Cancer Center Council makes historic $1 million pledge to CTRC

CTRC

CTRC Cabinet welcomes new members

Alonso N. Gutiérrez, Ph.D., a medical physicist and professor of radiation oncology at the CTRC at the UT Health Science Center, prepares a patient for treatment with the Novalis Tx™.

Targeted Radiation Clinic benefits from CTRC Cabinet gifts

Cynthia Banker, D.D.S., M.A., (left) and Birgit Junfen Glass, D.D.S., M.S., were the first females to graduate from the Dental School in 1975.

Firsts in the field

Student lounge

SOM alumni lead Student Education Enhancement Fund

Michelle A. Thomas, assistant vice president of External Affairs for AT&T Service Inc., presents Wiliam L. Henrich, M.D., MACP, Health Science Center president, with the final installment of $5 million gift to the university.

HSC Champions

Gregory R. Mundy, M.D.

Endowment honors Mundy

Endowment named in Hincheys’ honor

Endowment named in Hincheys’ honor

Dolph Briscoe

Briscoe will be missed by Health Science Center family

Awards with stars

Appointments and awards

Gladys C. Cronfel Keene, M.D., M.P.H.

Keene appointed regional dean in Laredo

Francisco González-Scarano, M.D.

González-Scarano is new dean of the Long School of Medicine

Amelie G. Ramirez, Dr.P.H.

Amelie Ramirez named co-chair of Mayor’s Fitness Council

Surgery to implant a compact, lightweight ventricular assist device called HeartMate II®

Miniaturized device gives hope to more heart failure patients

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School of Nursing mentoring program is national model

Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, mice in lab

Barshop Institute featured in FORTUNE

Celebrating the Dental School’s 40th anniversaary are (couples L-R) Kenneth L. Kalkwarf, D.D.S., M.S., dean of the Dental School since 1988, and his wife, Sharon Kalkwarf, with William L. Henrich, M.D. MACP, president of the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, and his wife, Mary Henrich.

Dental School celebrates 40th anniversary