News Releases
Johnson appointed to NIDA National Advisory Council
January 15, 2004
Bankole A. Johnson, M.D., Ph.D., a pioneering alcohol and drug addiction researcher at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has been appointed to serve on the National Advisory Council of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Nursing student helps develop clinical alarm testing plan
January 14, 2004
Wesley Richardson, a graduate nursing student at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, worked with Methodist Healthcare System staff to develop and implement a program that will test the clinical alarm systems on which hospitalized patients rely.
Alumni, former dean endow Dental School scholarship fund
January 14, 2004
A new $100,000 scholarship endowment will support outstanding students in the Dental School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Research nurse appointed to Statewide Stroke Task Force
January 14, 2004
Anne Leonard, R.N., M.P.H., research nurse in the division of neurology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and at the Audie L. Murphy Division of the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, has been named to the Statewide Stroke Task Force for the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Stroke Association of Texas.
St. Luke’s donates $15,000 to School of Nursing
January 14, 2004
The St. Luke’s Lutheran Health Ministries Foundation has donated $15,000 to the School of Nursing at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio to help endow a new academic professorship aimed at addressing the critical nursing faculty shortage.
Professor appointed to American College of Radiology committee
January 14, 2004
Charles R. Thomas, M.D., associate professor and vice chairman of radiation oncology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has been appointed to the select, 13-member Patterns-of-Care Gastrointestinal (GI) Committee of the American College of Radiology.