A gift of $30,000 from an anonymous donor has established the Jerald Winakur, M.D. Endowment for Humanities & Ethics in honor of Jerald Winakur, M.D., who is a clinical professor of medicine in the Long School of Medicine and an associate faculty member in the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the Health Science […]
Anne Briscoe, M.S., RN, a 1987 graduate of the School of Nursing, and former employee in the UT Health Science Center’s Division of Cardiology, has established the Anne Fishburne Briscoe, M.S., RN, B.S.N., B.S., ADN, AA, CCRN/Anne Pickens Fishburne, RN, Endowed Scholarship in Nursing Education. The endowment will honor her and her grandmother’s service to […]
The UT Health Science Center, UT San Antonio (UTSA), UT Austin College of Pharmacy and UT School of Public Health (San Antonio Regional Campus), announced the establishment of a Ph.D. degree program in translational science. Michael Lichtenstein, M.D., M.Sc., said the program is propelled by a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). “The goal of […]
The Department of Physical Therapy has been reaccredited for 10 years – the maximum number of years possible – by the Commission on Accreditation of Physical Therapy Education. Reaccreditation reviewers noted strong community support for the department’s programs and the quality of its graduates, as well as a commitment by faculty and students to community […]
Physical therapists who are seeking a way to update their credentials to the nationally recommended Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree are able to earn the degree through the Health Science Center’s newly approved transitional DPT degree program. “In 2000, the American Physical Therapy Association published its Vision 2020 statement that set a new goal […]
More than 150 physicians of UT Health San Antonio are 2012-13 selections for Best Doctors in America®, a database of the nation’s top physicians. UT Medicine is the clinical practice of the Long School of Medicine. “Congratulations to each physician on this list for attaining excellence in academic clinical practice,” said Francisco González-Scarano, M.D., dean […]
The Dental School recently opened The Implant Clinic offering state-of-the-art affordable dental and implant therapies with an emphasis on the expeditious completion of patient care. The clinic, under the direction of Ilser Turkyilmaz, D.D.S., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry, augments dental implant services in the Dental School and provides additional dental […]
A computer program developed by child abuse experts Nancy Kellogg, M.D., chief of the Division of Child Abuse Pediatrics and medical director of the CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital Center for Miracles, and James Anderst, M.D., of Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., is bridging the gap between the professionals on the scene of […]
Researchers in the Long School of Medicine co-authored a new book on the imaging of nanoparticles – tiny particles that in the future may prove to be eminently useful for drug delivery in humans. “Although there has been a lot of hype about nanoparticle technology, and some things don’t work or are clearly impractical, I […]
More than 1,500 college and high school students from throughout South Texas learned how to intubate manikins, start an intravenous (IV) line, immobilize a patient as paramedics do, administer visual acuity and respiratory function tests and much more at the 2011 Health Professions Fair & Science Expo held this past fall on the UT Health […]