UNT Health office extends hours to Saturday

Adult primary care physicians at UNT Health's Patient Care Center (PCC) will begin seeing patients from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays beginning March 5. The office is located on the second floor of the PCC on the UNT Health Science Center campus at 855 Montgomery Street at Fort Worth. The pediatrics clinic at the…

Osteopathic Match results released

National Matching Services, Inc., which coordinates the Osteopathic Match, announced that 74 percent of osteopathic students and graduates who participated this year successfully matched into osteopathic residency or internship positions.   Of the 2,212 individuals who participated in the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Intern/Resident Registration Program, 1,640 students and recent graduates successfully matched. Last year, there…

Study shows alcohol intoxication, driving intention linked to genes

A recent study published in Addiction Biology revealed that a greater risk of becoming highly intoxicated and driving after drinking may be in your genes. Dennis Thombs, PhD, chair and professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the UNT Health Science Center's School of Public Health, analyzed data collected via nighttime, sidewalk interviews and questionnaires,…

UNT Health Science Center facility earns LEED Gold

The University of North Texas Health Science Center‘s  newest facility, the Medical Education and Training Building which opened in May, has received a LEED Gold designation for meeting strict environmental standards.  The Medical Education and Training Building on the Health Science Center's Fort Worth campus is the first UNT System facility to be designated LEED…

$3.5 million Life Technologies grant will help train, certify forensic scientists at UNT Health Science Center

The Center for Human Identification at the UNT Health Science Center recently received a three-year $3.5 million grant from Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), a leader in forensic DNA testing systems, to train researchers from around the world in forensic DNA analysis techniques. This first of its kind accelerated academic certification program will train forensic…

UNTHSC sponsors health fair, races at The Cowtown

UNT Health Science Center is once again proud to sponsor The Cowtown, now a two-day series of six races, on Feb. 26 and 27. This year, the event, founded by the Health Science Center in 1979, moves to the Will Rogers Memorial Center to accommodate its growth from last year's 21,000 runners. Currently 17,300 runners are…

Yurvati named Healthcare Hero

Albert Yurvati, DO ('86), chair and professor of Surgery, was named a 2011 Healthcare Hero by the Fort Worth Business Press. He was honored at an awards dinner Thursday evening at the Fort Worth Club. This is Yurvati's second time to receive the honor. Yurvati, known nationally and internationally for his work and research, sees…

UNT Health at Alliance now seeing primary care and women’s health patients

UNT Health's new women's health and primary care physician practice office in far north Fort Worth opened in early January. Christopher Stevens, MD, board-certified OB/Gyn, Jaremy James, DO, general internal medicine specialist, and certified nurse midwives are now seeing patients at UNT Health at Alliance. The new office is located at 12650 North Beach Street…

NTERI hosts international conference

The UNT Health Science Center and the North Texas Eye Research Institute will host an international conference February 17 - 20. The Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics (AOPT) 10th Scientific Meeting, held in the Medical Education and Training Building, will focus on bringing together clinicians, academicians and industry scientists from around the globe to…

SACS reaffirms UNTHSC accreditation

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on Colleges notified the UNT Health Science Center that its board has formally reaffirmed the Health Science Center's accreditation. The news follows extensive work by Health Science Center faculty and staff that included a site visit in March 2010. During that visit, the SACS team praised…