Rajam Ramamurthy, M.D., may have been born and raised in India, but she’s grown fond of a particular American idiom. “I believe you should put your money where your mouth is,” she says flatly. Dr. Ramamurthy, professor emeritus in pediatrics, has a long history of giving back financially to the Health Science Center, where she […]
San Antonio area high school students will have the opportunity to participate in a unique, intensive, three-year biomedical research program at the Health Science Center, thanks to a $675,000 grant from The Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund. Voelcker fund trustees helped establish the Voelcker Biomedical Research Academy at the Health Science Center in 2009 […]
A $600,000 three-year grant from the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation is supporting a new nurse-led clinic for children who attend the AVANCE-San Antonio Head Start program at the Fenley Center, a child-development campus in the Harlandale Independent School District. The clinic offers preventative screenings and primary health care through an agreement between the UT […]
Annual gala honors Frost family legacy The link between Patricia and Tom Frost and the Health Science Center was forged in 1959, when the Texas Legislature signed House Bill 9 to create the Long School of Medicine that now sits in the heart of the San Antonio Medical Center. But the Frosts never imagined it […]
The Cancer Therapy & Research Center received $1 million from the Klesse Foundation and an additional $1 million from the Valero Energy Foundation in support of the recruitment of a nationally recognized scientist to lead the CTRC’s Cancer Prevention Program. The two gifts helped the CTRC exceed its $10 million annual fundraising goal, bringing the year’s […]
Like a seed that becomes a tree, pilot grants can help a scientist through the mundane but pricey steps needed to prove an idea has real potential—thus securing the bigger grants to finance the years of work it takes to create the next effective drug. When Roger and Dot Hemminghaus heard about the pilot research […]
John H. Doran, M.D. ’73, an internist in Odessa, Texas, has given $500,000 to the Health Science Center to establish the John H. Doran, M.D., FACP, Endowed Chair in Peripheral Neuropathy. Dr. Doran has been practicing in his native Odessa since graduating from the Long School of Medicine. He said he has long had […]
Julie Barnett, D.P.T., M.T.C., PT, respected the work of her father, a general surgeon, so much that she decided to follow his path to medicine. It seemed natural for the two of them to create another connection years later. Dr. Barnett and her father, Duane Barnett, M.D., now retired, have established the Barnett Endowed […]
The Houston-based JLH Foundation has made a pledge of $356,415 to the University Transplant Center, a partnership of the Health Science Center and the University Health System. Foundation funds will be used to support the personal needs of transplant recipients and their families, foundation officials said. The foundation was created to honor the memory of […]
First McFee Scholars begin their journey to become physicians Fifty years ago, Arthur McFee, M.D., like all Harvard medical students at the time, was a resident of Vanderbilt Hall. For four years they ate together, studied together, worried together. They mentored each other and supported each other through the rigors of medical school. “We had […]