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March 14, 2006
“Mental Health Consequences of Recent Disasters: From Oklahoma City to Katrina,” a conference and workshop, will be offered to area health professionals April 3-6 at the Health Science Center.
March 14, 2006
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and physicians like Morton Kahlenberg, M.D., of the Health Science Center, are spreading the word: If you are over 50 (or younger if you have certain risk factors), make a deposit in the bank account of your health by getting screened.
March 7, 2006
The National Institutes of Health’s Center for Scientific Review appointed Jair C. Soares, M.D., of the Health Science Center, to the Neural Basis of Psychopathology, Addictions and Sleep Disorders Study Section.
March 7, 2006
A $100,000 donation from a Texas educator will lead to establishment of the A. David Mangelsdorff, Ph.D., Professorship in Public Health Preparedness and Biomedical Research at the Health Science Center.
February 28, 2006
The nation’s only practicing surgeon/university president, Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., traveled to Mexico City Feb. 20 to receive an honorary award from the oldest university in the Western Hemisphere.
February 28, 2006
Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., president of the Health Science Center, honored representatives of the Robert J. Kleberg Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation at a reception/dinner Feb. 27 in McAllen, where he also saluted the outstanding resident physicians at the Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC) who are the 2005-2006 Kleberg Medical Scholars.