Headline News: Skype at night connects S.A. researcher to Chinese laboratory   
Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2012
What does a U.S. academic health center receive in exchange for allowing one of its top professors to spend a few weeks in China each year? More than just travel tips. Feng Liu, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, will also serve as founding director of a Metabolic Syndrome Research Center begun this spring by Second Xiangya Hospital, a teaching hospital in Changsha, China. .....more»

Headline News: 250 leaders commemorate RAHC’s 10th anniversary   
Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2012
An estimated 250 community and academic leaders gathered June 14 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC), part of the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio. The school operates the Harlingen and Edinburg campuses of the RAHC......more»

Headline News: Students grateful for having learned from human bodies    
Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
A medical helicopter flyby and a rendition of “Shall We Gather at the River” began the moving ceremony honoring those who donated their bodies to the UT Health Science Center San Antonio for educational purposes. During the ceremony, held May 1, faculty members and students expressed their appreciation to family members of the deceased for the opportunity to teach and learn using the human body. .....more»

Headline News: Women’s Faculty Association presents leadership awards    
Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
The Women’s Faculty Association (WFA) hosted its annual awards ceremony on May 15. The WFA honored an outstanding female student from each of the five schools at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, presented awards to six young scientists for their outstanding science projects and named the winner of the Dr. Margaret (Sue) Keir Hoppe Research Ethics Award. .....more»

Headline News: Five faculty inducted into the Academy of Master Teachers   
Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Five UT Health Science Center faculty members were recently inducted into the Academy of Master Teachers. The academy is the Health Science Center’s professional society organized to demonstrate ongoing recognition of the commitment to teaching and learning excellence......more»

Headline News: Marsha Griffin, M.D., to receive national AAP award    
Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Marsha Griffin, M.D., adjunct assistant professor at the Regional Academic Health Center and chief of pediatrics at Brownsville Community Health Center, has been selected for the 2012 American Academy of Pediatrics Local Heroes Award. The award recognizes pediatricians who are leaders through community action and advocacy for children. .....more»

Headline News: Insomnia? How better sleep may help cancer patients   
Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Everyone needs a good night’s sleep, but cancer patients often have extra hurdles between them and healing slumber. Three experts will address sleep issues of cancer patients and how to overcome them on Thursday, June 14, at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center of The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio......more»

Headline News: Radical change for routine prostate cancer treatment    
Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
A new study has just upended a decades-old prostate cancer therapy approach. The international study involving the Cancer Therapy & Research Center at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio shows that men with less advanced metastatic prostate cancer who were prescribed intermittent hormone therapy died an average of two years sooner than those on continuous therapy. Ian Thompson, M.D., was senior author on the study. .....more»

Headline News: Ribbon-cutting Wednesday for nursing simulation center   
Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Leaders of the UT Health Science Center San Antonio and The University of Texas System will cut the ribbon Wednesday, June 13, on the $3.8 million School of Nursing Simulation Center & Clinical Learning Lab. This instructional mini-hospital and home health setting will inculcate into students the ability to appraise and respond to unique clinical situations and reflect on whether they did the right thing at the right time......more»

Headline News: Voelcker grant goes to CTRC researcher Dr. Jennifer Carew   
Posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Jennifer Carew, Ph.D., is working to find new treatments to improve the survivorship of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The assistant professor in the School of Medicine recently received a $450,000 grant from the Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund to help her continue research on a new drug. .....more»