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  • Our People
| January 10, 2019

Dr. Robert Richard earns TCOM’s first outstanding preceptor award

By Alex Branch   Robert Richard, DO, told UNT Health Science Center medical student Sarah Hmaidan exactly what she should expect from him as her preceptor. “He told me if he wasn’t inspiring me to be the best doctor I...

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  • Community
| January 8, 2019

Generous gift boosts UNTHSC’s dementia research

By Alex Branch A generous estate gift from a longtime community volunteer whose family was impacted by dementia will establish a $3 million endowed chair to support groundbreaking research into Alzheimer’s...

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  • Education
| January 7, 2019

UNTHSC appoints new dean of School of Health Professions

By Alex Branch J. Glenn Forister, PhD, PA-C, believes in the value of high-performing teams, and that’s what he sees at UNT Health Science Center. The institution’s One University concept, values-based culture and focus on extraordinary teamwork are concepts that...

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  • Community
| January 4, 2019

Patients’ understanding of health information critical in saving lives of new moms

By Sally Crocker Every day, about 830 women around the world die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications. The number of maternal deaths in the U.S. has more than doubled in the last 30 years, and Texas data is especially concerning,...

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  • Education
| January 2, 2019

Lessons learned at early age connect with public health career

By Sally Crocker Growing up, Dr. Jaime González thought he might one day become a priest. Life, however, had other plans, taking him on a different path of serving others, through public health...

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  • Research
| December 19, 2018

A possible hidden reason for ventilator-associated pneumonia

By: Jan Jarvis Surgical patients who need ventilators to breathe face heightened risks for pneumonia, but detecting the bacteria that might be causing the infection can be complicated. One reason for the confusion is that bacteria that appear on cultures...

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  • Patient Care
| December 18, 2018

SaferCare Texas making health care safer for patients

By Jan Jarvis Complicated medical literature, stacks of discharge orders and convoluted prescriptions can frustrate patients and lead to costly hospitalizations or even death. SaferCare Texas, a team of interprofessional patient safety experts, wants to change that landscape by giving...

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  • Education
| December 12, 2018

TCOM is again Texas’ top source for family medicine physicians

By Alex Branch The UNT Health Science Center’s osteopathic medical school was the only medical school in Texas to place at least 25 percent of 2018 graduates in family...

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  • Patient Care
| December 12, 2018

For pharmacy class, a lesson in living with HIV

By Jan Jarvis   Shelia Neal can’t recall much of what happened on the day she learned she was HIV positive because of the sheer shock of it all. But one thing stands out. “Until then, I had never had...

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  • Education
| December 11, 2018

A new dean for Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

By Jan Jarvis Michael Mathis, PhD, sees plenty of similarities between his current job at Louisiana State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine, and his future one as dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UNT Health Science Center....