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  • Community
| October 18, 2019

Sally Crocker wins national award for magazine article on domestic violence

By Kerry Gunnels Sally Crocker, Communications Manager in UNTHSC’s School of Public Health, is a top winner in the national Ragan Communications Health Care PR and Marketing Awards. Crocker, who has worked in the School of Public Health for 10...

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  • Our People
| October 17, 2019

Vishwanatha receives Presidential Award for mentoring work

By Jan Jarvis Regents Professor Jamboor K. Vishwanatha, PhD, is one of three educators in the state and 15 nationwide who have been named recipients of Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Dr. Vishwanatha, Vice President...

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  • Community
| October 16, 2019

FitWorth, UNTHSC strengthen partnership to make Fort Worth healthier

By Alex Branch UNT Health Science Center and FitWorth have collaborated to help people in Fort Worth live healthier lives since 2012. Now the two organizations have strengthened their partnership to make an even bigger impact on the health of...

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  • Education
| October 15, 2019

UNTHSC launches podcast focused on Innovation in Fort Worth

By Alex Branch Want to hear an inspiring story of innovation in Fort Worth? Meet Cam Sadler. He was a Dunbar High School teacher who cashed in his retirement savings one summer and launched...

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  • Community
| October 15, 2019

Fort Worth paramedics practice procedures at UNTHSC Anatomy Lab

By Jan Jarvis Ever so gently, Levi Hejl slipped a metal laryngoscope down the patient’s throat. “Tip of the tongue, middle of the tongue, base of the tongue,” he said. “Centimeter by centimeter.” The paramedics gathered around the patient watched...

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  • Community
| October 14, 2019

‘The perfect time to think big’

By Alex Branch Rachel Miller’s transformation from physician assistant to CEO of...

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  • Community
| October 11, 2019

Teaching performing artists practices that will keep them safe and healthy

By Jan Jarvis A clarinet player in a high school marching band might not think twice about how long hours of practicing damages his body. But a collaboration of educators working to improve the health of performing artists does. The...

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  • Education
| October 11, 2019

Reducing infant mortality rates at the heart of new grant

By Steven Bartolotta It was the summer of 1994, Amy Raines-Milenkov, DrPh, was a student at the University of Texas starting her year-long internship in social work and the AIDS epidemic was rampant across the nation. Over that next year,...

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  • Education
| October 11, 2019

From Green Belt to public health, it’s all people-driven

By Sally Crocker What do public health, health care, academics and a Six Sigma Green Belt have in common? They all share synergies for learning, progress, quality improvement and collaboration, says Arthur M. Mora, PhD, new UNTHSC School of Public...

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  • Education
| October 8, 2019

New collaborative grant to help reduce risk of medication errors

By Steven Bartolotta A collaborative effort has been launched by several health care organizations to help address the nation’s burgeoning crisis of preventable medication-related harm. Each year, the nation’s hospitals record more than 700,000 emergency room visits and 100,000 hospitalizations...