The Social Determinants of Health: Relevance to Cancer Disparities
January 19, 2011
SALSI-funded speaker series focuses on cancer health disparities
SALSI-funded speaker series focuses on cancer health disparities
October 15, 2010
The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio and UT San Antonio are teaming up to launch the San Antonio Life Sciences Institute (SALSI) Distinguished Health Disparities Lecture Series, which will periodically bring some of the top U.S. health disparities experts to San Antonio to offer the latest trends, tools and advancements in the fight against cancer health disparities among the underserved.
Program to reach out to medically underserved children in South Texas
December 15, 2009
A new program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio seeks to bring more Hispanic children from the Lower Rio Grande Valley into clinical trials for leukemia, helping this underserved population get cutting-edge therapies.
Medical ethics lecture honors Dr. Paul Farmer’s public health work in Haiti, depicted in book ‘Mountains Beyond Mountains’
September 18, 2008
The annual lecture honors the memory of Dr. Bryant, a compassionate San Antonio physician who was an unceasing advocate for the medically underserved in the East Side of the city.
Community invited to presentation on heart disease at UT Health Science Center Laredo Campus Extension
August 18, 2008
The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio is holding a special community health presentation in Laredo on heart disease featuring Steven R. Bailey, M.D.
United Way honors Usatine for Student-Run Free Clinic leadership
July 31, 2008
The concept is simple yet profound: Training medical students in the community where they are needed, rather than solely in classrooms, results in a well-rounded, more-compassionate physician of the future.