A $2.5 million, five-year federal grant obtained by the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry will support faculty development and training in the Dental School. The project will provide career development training, including fellowships and workshops for dental students, residents and faculty. Investigators on the grant are Jeffrey L. Hicks, D.D.S., professor, and M. Norma Partida, D.D.S., […]
A transformational gift totaling $1 million from the Kolitz family – Sandi, Bob and Aaron Kolitz, and Karee, Loren and Millie Jones – will support the research of Andrew Brenner, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Brenner is a neuro-oncologist at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) and an assistant professor of medicine at the UT Health Science […]
The Department of Occupational Therapy received a $1,077,765 grant from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services of the U.S. Department of Education. The five-year grant, “Project Reaching More: Increasing Highly Qualified Occupational Therapists to Serve Children, Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities,” addresses the documented shortage of qualified occupational therapists needed to provide services for […]
Two newly funded grants totaling $1.2 million will support studies of Alzheimer’s disease at the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. One grant, $960,000 over four years from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, is furthering studies of environmental toxins and their role in Alzheimer’s risk. Qitao Ran, Ph.D., and his […]
Reto Asmis, Ph.D., biochemistry professor and associate dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, was awarded a four-year, $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to look at underlying causes of cardiovascular disease at the cellular level. The NIH grant may allow these scientists to develop new drug treatments that could […]
The Department of Physician Assistant Studies received a five-year, almost $1 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to provide better primary care to more patients. The funding period began Aug. 1 and runs through July 31, 2017. “We expect this project […]
To improve Latinas’ health, a new five-year, $3.48 million National Institutes of Health study will use promotoras – trained community health workers – to lead culturally appropriate group education and exercise sessions for Latinas in a program called Enlace (a Spanish term that means to “connect” or “join”) in community centers in South Texas’ Lower Rio […]
Nearly half of adults in the Texas border region are obese and 30 percent have diabetes. A new University of Texas System initiative – the South Texas Border Community Obesity and Diabetes Program – aims to address these major health issues through research, education and community engagement. The Regional Campus, along with Health Science Center […]
The emergency medicine residency program – the first of its kind for South Texas – has been approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. University Hospital, San Antonio’s largest emergency center and the leading civilian Level I trauma center for the 22-county region of South/Central Texas, will be the chief training site for […]
MinuteClinic, the retail health care division of CVS Caremark, and UT Health Physicians, the academic medical practice of the Long School of Medicine, have entered into a clinical affiliation to enhance access to high-quality, affordable health care services in the region. MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics are open seven days a week inside select CVS/pharmacy stores. […]