Headline News: Three faculty members receive national recognition   
Posted: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Three UT Health Science Center San Antonio faculty members have received national recognition. Adelita Cantu, Ph.D., RN, will receive an award from the National Association of Hispanic Nurses; Jan Patterson, M.D., M.S., (pictured) was appointed to an American Board of Internal Medicine subspecialty board; and Deborah Parra-Medina, Ph.D., M.P.H., was elected to the Obesity Society’s Pediatric Obesity Section......more»

Headline News: Heart pump device bridges teenager to her second chance   
Posted: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Amber Munoz, 15, relishes the idea of playing her flute at football games this fall with the Taft High School Raider Band. Practice starts Aug. 1 but she still has a bit of recovery to do to get to the field. That’s because on April 4 surgeons transplanted a new heart to replace her enlarged one. She is one of the youngest in the world to have used a specialized heart assistive device before a transplant heart became available......more»

Headline News: Easter Island drug raises cognition throughout life span   
Posted: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Cognitive skills such as learning and memory diminish with age in everyone, and the drop-off is steepest in Alzheimer’s disease. Seeking a way to prevent this decline, Texas scientists, led by Veronica Galvan, Ph.D., of the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, have reported exciting results with a drug that has Polynesian roots......more»

Headline News: Dental School receives $4.5 million for five-state PBRN   
Posted: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The Dental School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has been awarded a seven-year, $4.5 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) to lead the Southwest Region of the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network (NDPBRN). Thomas W. Oates, D.M.D., Ph.D., is director of the NDPBRN Southwest Region......more»

Headline News: Graduation profile: Green Beret Roland Paquette   
Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Four years after he lost both legs above the knees to a roadside blast in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Special Forces Medic Roland Paquette walked on prosthetic legs to a classroom at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio. In May, he crossed the state to get his diploma in physician assistant studies as one of 741 graduates of the UT Health Science Center San Antonio. .....more»

Headline News: Nursing faculty, students remind elders to stay cool   
Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2012
As temperatures rise, so does the risk of heat exhaustion, especially for people who are older, chronically ill, disabled or homebound. School of Nursing faculty and students are trying to prevent heat-related illnesses by giving presentations and providing educational materials at areas senior centers. Shown are (left to right) Kelly Dunn, RN, Ph.D., PHCNS-BC, and Anthia Murray, M.P.H., M.S.N., RN. .....more»

Headline News: School of Nursing unveils new Simulation Center   
Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2012
More than 150 faculty members, dignitaries, donors and guests filled a School of Nursing lecture hall June 13 to celebrate the opening of the $3.9 million Simulation Center and Clinical Learning Lab. The facility was conceived and developed under the leadership of School of Nursing Dean Eileen T. Breslin, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, (pictured cutting the ribbon with Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., UT System executive vice chancellor for health affairs). .....more»

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»