Dr. Carie Boychuk receives UT System’s Rising STARs award
June 7, 2019
The award for early-career investigators comes with a $250,000 grant.
Trauma game changer
June 7, 2019
Because of lessons learned on the battlefields, South Texas patients are receiving lifesaving whole blood transfusions—before ever reaching the hospital.
Pediatric oncologist: Cure the patient, yes, but cure without damage
June 6, 2019
Pediatric oncologist and researcher Gregory Aune, M.D., Ph.D., tells the story of his favorite patient, a teenage boy some 30 years ago who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
2020 inductees named for Gold Humanism Honor Society
June 3, 2019
The Marvin Forland, M.D., Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society at UT Health San Antonio has announced its Class of 2020. Through the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the honor society promotes humanism as the core of health care. The society recognizes students, residents and faculty who are exemplars of compassionate patient care and who […]
The perfect storm
May 31, 2019
What used to be called adult-onset diabetes is now hitting children at alarming rates. While San Antonio bears the burden of being the epicenter for diabetes, it is also a hotbed for research. Read the award-winning story in Mission magazine.
San Antonio Business Journal: 2019 Health Care Heroes: Kristen Plastino
May 24, 2019
From the San Antonio Business Journal Outstanding Physician Hospital-based Dr. Kristen Plastino, vice chair of clinical operations, UT Health San Antonio Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Dr. Kristen Plastino has done as much as anyone to reduce teen pregnancy in Bexar County. Plastino, a tenured professor who has been on the faculty for the department of obstetrics […]