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August 19, 2022 • Administration
After a nearly eight-month national search and thoughtful consideration, the University of North Texas System Board of Regents announced the selection of Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams as the sole finalist for president of The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC). Dr. Trent-Adams will become the seventh president in the university’s history…
August 18, 2022 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Janet Lieto, Health Systems Science curriculum, Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship,
Dr. Janet Lieto, the director of Health Systems Science, Leadership and Innovation and an Associate Professor at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine was selected to participate in the highly esteemed American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine’s Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship. The Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship is a year-long leadership training program designed to…
August 16, 2022 • Students, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine American Physician Scientist Association’s, D.O./Ph.D. program, Dr. Michael Smith, Dr. Robbie Cooksey, Luke Cooksey, M.D. Anderson,
It was the summer of 2015 and Luke Cooksey had just begun a research internship at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston as an undergrad student. Each day he rode the bus to work. It was there he met a man from Georgia, the same age as Cooksey, who was getting treatment for Leukemia. The…
August 9, 2022 • Editor's Picks, Our People, Physical Therapy, School of Health Professions Doctor of Physical Therapy, Jan Libby, Rafael Saldana-Vazquez, School of Health Professions, Susan Libby,
It was a moment no adult child ever wants to experience with their elderly parent. Susan Libby’s 92-year-old mother had fallen face-first onto Fort Worth’s busy 7th Street, near the HSC campus, during the high-traffic weekday lunch rush. A simple misunderstanding between the elderly mother and her two daughters, Libby and her sister, Jan, led to confusion…
August 8, 2022 • HSC Health, School of Public Health, TCOM American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Dr. Andrew Yockey, Dr. David Farmer, Dr. Scott Walters, mental health,
The numbers are staggering. Each year in the U.S., 300 to 400 physicians die by suicide. Such deaths are between 250% and 400% higher among female physicians when compared with women in other professions, and male doctors have suicide rates as much as 40% higher than the general population. Despite a recent push by the…
August 5, 2022 • HSC Health, HSC Health, Pediatrics Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, Dr. Christina Robinson, Healthy Families®, Healthy Kids, pediatric mobile clinic,
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth recently was awarded a $25,000 Healthy Kids, Healthy Families® grant from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX). The funding will allow the university’s Pediatric Mobile Clinic to continue striving to increase health care access for children across North Texas. The clinic has…
August 4, 2022 • Our People, School of Public Health School of Public Health, Shafik Dharamsi,
An educator with more than 25 years of transdisciplinary and international teaching, research and leadership experience will join The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Aug. 15 as the new dean of the School of Public Health. Dr. Shafik Dharamsi was hired after a national search for a new leader for…
August 3, 2022 • HSC Health, Safercare Texas HSC health, Janice Knebl, Julie Pedlar Dinneen, Katie McKinley, Patient Safety Organization, Riskonnect, SaferCare Texas, Tracy Chamblee,
HSC Health, in partnership with SaferCare Texas, is building out a custom risk reporting solution with a data reporting company called Riskonnect that just launched for clinic use. Riskonnect serves seven out of the 10 largest U.S. health systems and more than 170 health care and life sciences organizations, including 1400 acute care hospitals globally.…
July 29, 2022 • HSC Health, HSC News African American nurses, Donald “Donny” Freeman, HSC Health Correctional Medicine, HSC Health GI department, Kristi Wright, male nurses,
Donald “Donny” Freeman, clinical operations coordinator of HSC Health Correctional Medicine, knows hard work. For more than 20 years, he was a transportation worker before deciding to leave everything he knew to start a career in health care. Freeman is constantly bettering himself, progressing from medical assistant to licensed vocational nurse, and is on track…
July 22, 2022 • School of Public Health Dr. Colbey Walker, School of Public Health,
The last two years have been a whirlwind for Dr. Colbey Walker and his family. Last year brought Walker to a new faculty position with The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s School of Public Health, and last fall the family welcomed their first child, Murray, who has quickly become the…
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