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UT institutions, Laredo advisory council move toward more collaborative programs

April 25, 2019

Collaborative programs for education, clinical care and research were among the topics discussed April 4 by leadership of UT Health San Antonio, the UT System and the Laredo Regional Campus Advisory Council (RCAC).

Texas Public Radio: How can health care providers be more culturally competent, inclusive?

April 22, 2019

Disparities in healthcare are often driven by a doctor’s lack of sensitivity to a patient’s culture, values, socioeconomic status, race, or sexual or gender identity. Read the full story at Texas Public Radio

April 21-27 is Medical Laboratory Professionals Week

April 16, 2019

The goal of Medical Laboratory Professionals Week is to raise awareness of the importance of laboratory services and the professionals who go through years of training to take samples and specimen and translate them into test results from which diagnoses/treatment plans are developed, lineage is identified, or criminal evidence is revealed. The clinical scientists who […]

In memoriam: Hugh B. Tilson, D.D.S.

April 1, 2019

Hugh B. Tilson, D.D.S., an early faculty member in the School of Dentistry and chair of the oral surgery training program for 28 years, died March 21. He was 82. A native of Plainview, Texas, he earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1962 from the Baylor College of Dentistry. He then earned a […]

Business Journal honors four from UT Health as Health Care Heroes

April 1, 2019

Four UT Health San Antonio faculty members have been honored as Health Care Heroes by the San Antonio Business Journal. The annual awards recognize outstanding achievements by people in the local health care industry. In all, 21 members of the health care community were recognized across eight categories. Winners in the Education category were Kevin […]

Rear Admiral Trent-Adams to address ACORN grant nursing students

March 21, 2019

Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, Ph.D., RN, will be the speaker at an April 22 ceremony recognizing nursing students who will be involved in ACORN grants projects. ACORN stands for Advancing Community Oriented Registered Nursing. The ACORN grants, funded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, recruit and educate traditional program baccalaureate nursing students to […]