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Inaugural Garth N. Graham Distinguished Lectureship Award spotlights trailblazers who are advancing health equity
By Diane Smith-Pinckney The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) is joining the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine (SHLI), and YouTube in celebrating the first recipient of the Garth N. Graham Distinguished Lectureship Award. The inaugural award honors Garth...
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Hispanic Heritage Month offers history lessons while celebrating diversity
By Diane Smith-Pinckney For Alex Fernandez, connecting with his Cuban-American roots is a lifelong lesson. “The more I learn, the more I appreciate where I came from,” said Fernandez, a Student Services Coordinator in the Office of Care and Civility at The...
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At HSC, saving lives means making suicide everyone’s business
By Diane Smith-Pinckney Every 11 minutes there is a death by suicide in the United States. In 2019, more than 47,500 people died of suicide and 1.4 million attempted suicide, according to statistics gathered by the U.S Centers for Disease Control...
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In their own words: TCOM family shares memories of 9-11 terrorist attacks
By Steven Bartolotta Everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing during the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. This Sept. 11 marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and the...
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TCOM’s longstanding partnership with Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth nears milestone
By Steven Bartolotta Nancy Eder, RN, and Darry Meyer, DO were doing yard work and having a simple conversation between neighbors when an idea to help children turned into the beginning of a community partnership. “Darry Meyer was my next-door neighbor at the time, and he was...
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Whole health: How pharmacists are working to bridge health disparities
By Krista Roberts Even as pharmacists help patients fight COVID-19, they are looking for ways to solve health disparities – a societal ill that plagues communities nationwide. Every day pharmacists are helping patients with COVID-19 and the delta variant,...
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TCOM’s ‘Car Doc’ is working around the clock to help COVID patients
By Steven Bartolotta There are tireless workers, and then there is Martin McElya, DO. The 1995 Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) graduate and his north Dallas Neighborhood Medical Center practice have been a beacon of hope as they took swift...
- Education
TCOM student organizations help with back-to-school fair for Fort Worth community
By Steven Bartolotta A trio of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine student organizations partnered with the Brighter Outlook Community Center and Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church to help host a back-to-school fair for students of all ages. TCOM’s Student National Medical Association (SNMA), Refugee...
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Following her heart, TCOM student takes a chance and matches late into specialty of her dreams
By Steven Bartolotta It was another late night in July for Megan Jenkins-Turner, DO, waiting for her husband to get home from work, and surfing the internet hoping to find an open General Surgery residency position. Dr. Jenkins-Turner had graduated from the Texas...
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Asthma 411 works to help children breathe easier
By Katie Shanklin From school and work absences to school funding, asthma affects much more than just an individual’s ability to breathe. Asthma affects 5.1 million children in the United States. According to the Cook Children’s Community Needs Assessment, 19%...
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