Olvera to become psychiatry department chairman in the Long School of Medicine

July 11, 2023

Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (July 11, 2023) — Rene L. Olvera, MD, MPH, will assume duties as chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio effective Sept. 1. Robert A. Hromas, MD, FACP, dean of the Joe R. and Teresa […]




UT Teen Health approved for five-year, $9.86 million federal grant to stem teen pregnancies in South Texas

July 6, 2023

Rates are well higher than national average in counties facing health disparities Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, July 6, 2023 – Teen pregnancy rates are up to four times higher than the national average in South Texas, pointing to adolescent health care inequities affecting those who historically have suffered from socioeconomic disparities. UT […]




Could enhancing the body’s own marijuana-like chemical treat Alzheimer’s?

June 23, 2023

Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (June 23, 2023) — Can the body’s naturally occurring “pot” be boosted in the brain to treat Alzheimer’s disease? A researcher at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is studying that intriguing question with $4.4 million in newly awarded funding from the National Institutes […]




Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics is now the Charles E. Cheever Jr. Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics

June 22, 2023

Philanthropist-businessman’s legacy includes educating health professionals to embrace compassionate care SAN ANTONIO (June 22, 2023) — With more than $3 million in gifts from family, friends and supporters, including a lead gift from the Sally and Charlie Cheever Foundation, a new endowment will support in perpetuity the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at The […]





Social determinants of health training focuses on thinking beyond medicine

June 19, 2023

June 20 event draws about 200 medical residents, fellows-in-training Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, June 20, 2023 – To Averi White, MD, a third-year internal medicine resident, health care is as much about the circumstances that bring her patients to see her as the treatment she provides. “Social determinants of health are the […]