New chair of anesthesiology named

May 1, 2019

Frank Rosinia, M.D., M.H.C.M., has been named chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, effective June 17. Dr. Rosinia was selected after an extensive national search, said Robert Hromas, M.D., FACP, dean of the Long School of Medicine.


Dr. Kraig named a 2019 Piper Professor

May 1, 2019

She will receive a $5,000 award, certificate and gold pin, which will be presented at the foundation’s request by William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP, president of UT Health San Antonio.




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 […]

School of Health Professions student in lab


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 […]