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  • Community
| August 27, 2019

Library introduces ‘next generation’ in health information sharing

By Alex Branch As UNT Health Science Center librarians, Lorraine Sheldon and Brandy Klug understand the difficulty local health organizations have coordinating the services they provide people. As cancer survivors, they also know the difficulty people face finding reliable health...

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  • Community
| August 22, 2019

CHI helps eliminate sexual assault evidence backlog

By Jan Jarvis By the time Lavinia Masters’ rape kit was tested, more than 20 years had passed since she was assaulted. By then, the statute of limitations for the crime had expired. Through the work of the UNT Center...

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  • Education
| August 21, 2019

Dr. Paul Saenz to receive Mary E. Luibel Distinguished Service Award

By Alex Branch Paul S. Saenz, DO, a graduate of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and Team Physician for the San Antonio Spurs, has been named the 2019 recipient of the...

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  • Education
| August 20, 2019

College of Pharmacy awarded four-year accreditation

By Jan Jarvis The UNT System College of Pharmacy at UNT Health Science has reached another milestone just eight years after it was founded in 2011. The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education has granted the college a four-year accreditation term,...

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  • Research
| August 19, 2019

The dancers and their doctors

By Jan Jarvis About halfway through a ballet season filled with graceful leaps and pounding landings, dancer Celesta Gaiera had not suffered a single injury. Physical therapy, massage and compression boots helped keep the Texas Ballet Theatre dancer on her...

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  • Patient Care
| August 15, 2019

WE HAIL receives grant to improve care for older adults

By Jan Jarvis UNT Health Science Center and its community partners are expanding their efforts to improve health care for older adults with the support of a $3.75 million federal grant. The Health Resources and Services Administration funding will address...

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  • Our People
| August 13, 2019

Public Health grad pays it forward to inspire others

By Sally Crocker As Beatle Ringo Starr once wrote, “You know, it don’t come easy.” For Dr. Carolyn Bradley-Guidry (DrPH ’19), the turning point came midway through her UNT Health Science Center public health doctoral degree program. The first in...

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  • Our People
| August 12, 2019

TCOM graduate starts unique pediatric fellowship

By Steven Bartolotta   Nationwide, interest in the study of pediatric nephrology, which focuses on kidney disease in children, is declining. In 2017, 40 percent of the available fellowships in the specialty went unfilled. That didn’t faze Dr. Kim Piburn,...

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  • Patient Care
| August 7, 2019

Coming home to change health care

By Alex Branch Jeff Beeson, DO, grew up with UNT Health Science Center. As a kid, he watched Fourth of July fireworks with his father Don, the school’s long-time police chief, from a rooftop when it was just a medical...

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  • Our People
| August 5, 2019

The Migala Chronicles

By Alex Branch Imagine...