- Laura Sisk, DNP, RN, clinical assistant professor at the School of Nursing, and Julie Ball, a mother and panel member at the 9th Annual Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Symposium hosted by the School of Nursing and the state Health and Human Services Commission, were featured in this news segment. Watch Now
- Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and director of its long COVID clinic, was interviewed for the Marketplace radio program. Listen Now
- UT Health San Antonio is featured in the San Antonio Business Journal regarding future plans and construction of a new tower that will soon be built in the Medical Center. Read More (subscription required)
- The Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Fund recently awarded $800,000 to UT Health San Antonio to support research projects from early career investigators. Voelcker Fund Young Investigator Awards The Voelcker Fund Young Investigator Awards provide each recipient with a total of $350,000 in funding allocated over three years to support emerging researchers conducting biomedical research. […]
- The bioanalytics and single-cell core (BASiC) facility at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has a new, first-in-Texas Nanowizard V atomic force microscope. Pawel Osmulski, PhD, department of molecular medicine, took the lead in applying for a National Institutes of Health grant (S10 funding) for the specialized equipment. Nameer Kirma, […]
- The simple act of holding a breath during a radiation cancer treatment called deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) could mean the difference between irradiating healthy tissue and sparing it, according to Neil Newman, MD, a radiation oncologist for Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center.
- “The body is the car the brain gets to drive around in. To maintain your vehicle, you’ve got to check the tires, change the oil and fix what’s broken before it gets worse.” Alexander Shepherd, MD, a board-certified clinical pharmacologist and internist. He's been caring for male patients for more than 40 years and says it didn't take long for him to notice a pattern. “When men are young, they are more active. They are stronger and less stressed. But, once they get married and have children, they begin focusing on caring for their family - and less for themselves.”
- Three UT Health San Antonio faculty were awarded funds from The University of Texas System’s Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention program.
- Tracey E. Barnett, PhD, founding chair of the Department of Quantitative and Qualitative Health Sciences at the new UT School of Public Health San Antonio at UT Health San Antonio, in collaboration with UTSA, received a $250,000 UT System Faculty STARs (Science and Technology Acquisition and Retention) award to allow the new school of public […]
- Maria Escobar-Vasco, MD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, was interviewed for this news segment. Read More
