On Campus

2016 Presidential Award winners recognized
March 23, 2016
Linked by what President William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP, called a common “desire for excellence,” 20 members of the faculty and staff were honored March 22 with Presidential Awards from the UT Health Science Center San Antonio.

CTRC Clinical Trials: Brain Tumors
March 21, 2016
On March 9, Texas Public Radio and the Health Science Center’s Cancer Therapy & Research Center presented Clinical Trials at the CTRC as part of TPR’s Think Health Science series. The speaker was Andrew Brenner, M.D., Ph.D.

In memoriam: Casey M. Drawert, M.D.
March 14, 2016
Casey M. Drawert, M.D., an alum from the School of Medicine, a clinical assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care, and the mother of two young children, died on March 11 at University Hospital.

New senior director of libraries named
March 4, 2016
Owen Ellard, most recently the chief operating officer of the Texas Medical Center Library in Houston, has been named senior director of libraries at the Health Science Center.

HSC partners to bring more bioscience industry to San Antonio
March 3, 2016
Supporting the growth of the bioscience industry in our region, the Health Science Center in 2010 awarded a $500,000 incentive grant to bring InCube Labs to San Antonio from San Jose, California. The city of San Antonio, Bexar County, the Texas Research and Technology Foundation and UTSA also partnered in this successful effort. The work continues to pay off today.

HSC fares well in Shine Academy conference
March 3, 2016
The Health Science Center was well represented with more than 20 poster presentations and sessions at the 2016 Innovations in Health Science Education Annual Conference held in Austin Feb. 18-19. The conference is a part of the University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., Academy of Health Science Education.