Calhoon is vice chair of American Board of Thoracic Surgery

November 11, 2009

John H. Calhoon, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgeon, educator and researcher who has saved thousands of lives—including those of week-old infants—at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is the new vice chair and chair-elect of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.






Two S.A. landmarks to be illuminated in blue as symbols against diabetes

November 9, 2009

A world-renowned San Antonio landmark, the Tower of the Americas, and a world-renowned diabetes treatment and research center, the Texas Diabetes Institute (TDI), will join the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Sydney Opera House and hundreds of other world landmarks in being bathed in blue light for the Third Annual United Nations World Diabetes Day.