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Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine is The Top Ranked Medical School in Texas

Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine is The Top Ranked Medical School in Texas U.S. News & World Report released its annual list of the top ranked medical school for primary care on Thursday/ A the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth surged to the…
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HSC’s Dr. Jeff Beeson serves during disasters

Dr. Jeff Beeson hadn’t slept in nearly two days. As he surveyed the rubble of crumbled plywood, brick and mangled vehicles that dotted the Matador, Texas landscape, a fellow rescue worker came by to give him a sandwich for lunch. The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s vice president of clinical…
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College of Pharmacy pinning ceremony marks students’ transition to practice

HSC College of Pharmacy hosted the inaugural P3 Pinning Ceremony last month for the Class of 2024. The event celebrated the culmination of the student’s academic achievements in their first three years of pharmacy school and the beginning of their Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience rotations. In their fourth and final year, pharmacy students complete required…
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HSC’s Adebola ‘Serah’ Sulaiman named student regent

Adebola “Serah” Sulaiman, a graduate student at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, was recently appointed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to serve as the student regent on the UNT System Board of Regents. The second-year physician assistant graduate student in HSC’s School of Health Professions will serve a one-year…
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HSC to host free Latinos en Medicina Camp

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is hosting a free, weeklong Latinos en Medicina Camp for Fort Worth and Tarrant County children. The camp, which starts Monday and ends June 9, is for children ages 10-13 and aims to raise awareness about careers in health care in the Latino community.…
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  • Our People
| April 13, 2020

50 Heroes: Dr. Beverly Waddleton

Growing up in the East Texas town of Quitman, Beverly Waddleton might have let her small-town surroundings define her personal dreams. Instead, as the first African American female graduate of TCOM, Dr....

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  • COVID-19
| April 8, 2020

Empathy, communications most important for businesses now

By Sally Crocker Through innovative thinking in the wake of COVID-19, a Dallas-Fort Worth restaurant supplier set out on a new course, delivering fresh-baked bread products directly to consumers’ doorsteps. The hotel...

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  • COVID-19
| April 8, 2020

HSC Community Garden continues to provide organic fresh produce to food banks

By Oreoluwa Obayan The HSC Fort Worth Community Garden continues to grow fresh organic produce for those experiencing food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic -- while following guidelines for physical distancing and sanitizing. The garden last year donated 150 pounds...

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  • Education
| April 8, 2020

Dual doctorate student defends dissertation virtually

By Steven Bartolotta The outbreak of COVID-19 has impacted the educational plans of millions, but Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine student Grace Pham wasn’t about to allow it to get in the way of hers. Pham, who is pursuing the...

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  • COVID-19
| April 7, 2020

‘We are not helpless’: HSC, Tex-Air Filters partner to make 100s of masks to fight COVID-19

By Diane Smith Fort Worth businessman Jim Rosenthal is attacking COVID-19 as it charts a ruthless path across the United States with an army of crafty volunteers. The mysterious...

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  • COVID-19
| April 6, 2020

History teaches us that quarantines work

By Sally Crocker The notion of COVID-19 social distancing may seem strange to many of us, but quarantines for the good of public health have been around since the Middle Ages and perhaps even earlier. The practice of separating the...

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  • COVID-19
| April 6, 2020

Pandemic could lead to spike in alcohol and drug addiction

By Jan Jarvis A terrible triad – trauma, isolation and lack of structure – is driving more people to drink alcohol and use drugs. Unemployment, lack of health insurance and fear of the unknown are just of few of the...

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  • COVID-19
| April 6, 2020

COVID-19 will leave a permanent mark on health care

By Alex Branch The COVID-19 pandemic could cause lasting fundamental changes to the U.S. health care system, including how and where patients receive care, said an HSC Fort Worth expert in Health Behavior and Health Systems. “Unlike some countries, we...

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  • Our People
| April 6, 2020

50 Heroes: Dr. Thomas Yorio

For more than 40 years, Thomas Yorio, PhD, has transformed the Health Science Center. An internationally known glaucoma researcher and Provost Emeritus, Dr. Yorio was instrumental in growing HSC from a medical college into a graduate university with multiple schools....

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  • Community
| April 3, 2020

The month medical education changed…possibly forever

By Steven Bartolotta It was late February, and COVID-19 was spreading globally. But the concern about the wide-reaching impacts it could...