Healing young minds: UT Health San Antonio’s initiatives to address the adolescent mental health crisis

September 6, 2024

This story is featured in the September 2024 issue of the Bexar County Medical Society’s San Antonio Medicine Magazine. For the past decade, adolescent mental health disorders have skyrocketed, an issue propelled even further by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental health has declined surreptitiously for millions of people in recent years, affecting even the youngest among […]



New UT School of Public Health San Antonio welcomes inaugural class, launches degree program designed for South Texas

August 26, 2024

The University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio (UT School of Public Health San Antonio), a collaboration between The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), proudly welcomes its inaugural class and the official launch of the region’s first Master of Public Health […]



UT Health San Antonio and UTSA merger announced

August 22, 2024

The UT System Board of Regents has asked Chancellor Milliken to work with us to develop a plan to merge UTSA and UT Health San Antonio to create a premier university that brings all of our individual academic, research and clinical strengths together to build a unified and profoundly impactful university of the future.



Non-medical drivers of health training focuses on thinking beyond medicine

June 14, 2024

To family medicine physician Lizette Lugo, MD, certain non-medical experiences shape every visit she has with her patients. “Those non-medical drivers will determine whether my patient has to choose between picking up the prescription I sent to the pharmacy or buying food for their children, whether they are late to my appointment because the bus […]



UT Health San Antonio and Spurs take over elementary PE classes

May 20, 2024

The clunk of basketballs hitting rims instead of the swooshing of nets mixed with squeals of laughter as the Spurs Coyote led a group of third graders through basketball drills. lt was part of an afternoon of fun and learning when the San Antonio Spurs Sports Academy with UT Health San Antonio took charge of the physical education classes at an elementary school.