UNT System Board of Regents announces sole finalist for HSC president

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…

TCOM’s Dr. Janet Lieto begins prestigious AACOM Fellowship this month

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…

TCOM dual degree student elected to APSA executive council

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…

Led by his compassion and HSC’s values, a PT student rescued a family in distress

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…

Health care workers must address their 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…

HSC receives Healthy Kids, Healthy Families grant from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas

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…

New dean hired to lead HSC School of Public Health

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…

Maximizing safety to minimize risk

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.…

Perseverance in health care: Donny Freeman’s nursing journey

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…

The commitments of public health, teaching and mentorship hold strong for faculty member Dr. Colbey Walker

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…