WHAT: Dedication of the Ruth McLean Bowman Bowers Cyclotron Wing at the Research Imaging Center of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
WHEN: 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 7 (tour at 10:30; ceremony at 11)
WHERE: Robert F. McDermott Clinical Science Building at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Greehey Academic and Research Campus),8403 Floyd Curl Drive; the dedication ceremony will take place in the Bowers Cyclotron Wing; all media are asked to please check in at the desk in the lobby
WHO: Speakers:
–Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., president, UT Health Science Center San Antonio
–William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP, dean, School of Medicine, and vice president for medical affairs, UT Health Science Center
–Peter T. Fox, M.D., director, Research Imaging Center, and professor, departments of radiology, psychiatry, neurology and physiology, UT Health Science Center
NOTES: Mrs. Bowers gave $1.6 million to support acquisition of the Research Imaging Center’s second cyclotron, a particle accelerator that generates radioisotopes used in clinical and research imaging. Applications include diagnosis and study of cancer, cardiac diseases and brain function.
The Research Imaging Center is the first center in Texas with two cyclotrons and one of only a handful in the U.S. with two. Members of the family will be recognized.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is the leading research institution in South Texas and one of the major health sciences universities in the world. With an operating budget of $576 million, the Health Science Center is the chief catalyst for the $15.3 billion biosciences and health care sector in San Antonio’s economy. The Health Science Center has had an estimated $35 billion impact on the region since inception and has expanded to seven campuses in San Antonio, Laredo, Harlingen and Edinburg. More than 23,000 graduates (physicians, dentists, nurses, scientists and allied health professionals) serve in their fields, including many in Texas. Health Science Center faculty are international leaders in cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, aging, stroke prevention, kidney disease, orthopaedics, research imaging, transplant surgery, psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, pain management, genetics, nursing, allied health, dentistry and many other fields. For more information, visit www.uthscsa.edu.