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July 31, 2023 • Banner feature, College of Pharmacy Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Dr. Charles Taylor, Dr. S. Suresh Madhavan, drug discovery, flexible certificates, health outcomes research, highly ranked pharmacy program, pharmacometrics,
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s College of Pharmacy has reached another milestone just 10 years after its inaugural class matriculated in 2013. The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education has granted the college an eight-year accreditation term, the maximum time allowed. This accomplishment signifies that the HSC College of Pharmacy…
July 31, 2023 • Whole Health Community, Environmental Health, Financial Health, HSC Pediatric Mobile Clinic, mental health, Physical Health, Self-Care,
“A house-call patient of mine has dementia. Her family members are highly educated. They were struggling to decide how to best care for their mom and looking for ways to help her condition improve, such as walking around the house for exercise. We had to discuss the patient’s goals versus the family members’ goals for…
July 27, 2023 • Banner feature, Institute for Health Disparities Dr. Alison Gammie, Dr. Jamboor Vishwanatha, National Institutes of Health Diversity Program Consortium, The National Research Mentor Network - Resource Center,
A variety of biomedical scientists descended upon Los Angeles last month, as well as scores more participating from home, for what would be the final National Institutes of Health Diversity Program Consortium annual conference. The theme was appropriately titled “Ending Well Together: Moving the Effort of the DPC Forward.” The event both celebrated the efforts…
July 25, 2023 • School of Public Health
The School of Public Health at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth has launched a new academic department structure to advance its efforts to train a critically needed workforce in the fields of public health, health administration and health policy for Texas and beyond. The revised structure will include the…
July 25, 2023 • Institute for Health Disparities AIM-AHEAD, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity, Black women, breast cancer, health care-focused AI/ML, Health disparities, Hispanic women, MedCognetics,
Breast cancer is the second-most common form of the disease in women in the United States. However, it does not affect everyone equally. While Black women make up a smaller proportion of breast cancer cases compared to white women, they are at a significantly higher risk of death than their white counterparts. Part of the…
July 25, 2023 • Community, Whole Health giving, health systems, student pantry, toiletry drive, Whole Health,
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s administrative professional team organized a toiletry drive for items on campus during the month of June. HSC Health’s senior executive assistant Karen Coleman, who spearheaded the drive, said she was inspired to act after visiting the student pantry. There she saw a need for…
July 21, 2023 • Banner feature, HSC Health Caring for firefighters, heat exhaustion, Jessica Rangel, Palo Pinto, Possum Kingdom, Texas fires, wilderness medicine,
Last year, an open trash container whose contents ignited sparked a fire that destroyed five homes and charred more than 1,800 acres in Palo Pinto County. This year, the same area 80 miles west of Fort Worth that houses Possum Kingdom Lake was once again engulfed in flames. The so-called “Storage Fire,” which reportedly started…
July 21, 2023 • Advancement, Leadership chief financial officer, Fundrai, fundraiser, Institutional Advancement, Kemp Louis, Kimberly Russell, leaders, UNTHSC Foundation,
A vice president at Texas Woman’s University and a current employee at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth were announced Thursday as new top administrators at HSC. Kimberly Russell, vice president for University Advancement at Texas Woman’s University and executive director of the TWU Foundation, was named HSC’s new vice…
July 20, 2023 • Banner feature, HSC Health, Whole Health depression, Environmental Health, Financial Health, mental health, Physical Health, spirituality, Whole Health, Whole Health care team,
This article is part of a series highlighting whole health initiatives on HSC’s campus. When a patient is diagnosed with a life-altering chronic illness, that person’s emotional state can plummet. Roughly 37 million Americans have diabetes, for example, and they are two to three times more likely to develop depression than people without the disease. If…
July 20, 2023 • Institute for Health Disparities Health disparities, HEARD Scholars, John Lewis National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Endowment, MiHERO Ph.D. Scholars program, Minority Health, National Institutes of Health, NIMHD Specialized Centers of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities,
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth was recently awarded the $10 million John Lewis National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Endowment by the National Institutes of Health. This is now the second time the institution has been awarded this endowment to strengthen research into minority health and…
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