Please welcome our newest faculty members joining the Mays Cancer Center.

September 8, 2022

Brittany Altermatt, ANP Gastrointestinal Oncology and Neuro-oncology   Brittany Altermatt, ANP, joined our medical oncology team as an adult nurse practitioner and will work with our gastrointestinal oncology and neuro-oncology clinics. She brings vast knowledge to the Mays Cancer Center, having had clinical experiences in inpatient and outpatient care, as well as managing multidisciplinary clinical trial […]

Robotic kidney cancer surgery shows desirable outcomes in study

August 17, 2022

  Contact: Will Sansom, 210-567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (Aug. 17, 2022) — Kidney cancer is not always confined to the kidney. In advanced cases, this cancer invades the body’s biggest vein, the inferior vena cava (IVC), which carries blood out of the kidneys back to the heart. Via the IVC, cancer may infiltrate the liver […]

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Molecular medicine associate professor receives UT System Rising STARs award

July 21, 2022

Lingtao Jin, PhD from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), has received a UT System Rising STARs award in the amount of $250,000 to support his research into molecular-targeted therapies to treat human cancers.  Jin is an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine in the […]

Welcome to our new Senior Director of Finance and Administration

July 15, 2022

Paymon Bagheri has joined the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, as the senior director of finance and administration. Paymon is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), Fellow of the American College of Medical Practice Executives (FACMPE) and a certified Lean Six Sigma health […]