Bidding a fond farewell to retiring MHI leader

September 27, 2024

Welcoming new MHI executive director After 10 years of distinguished leadership at the Military Health Institute (MHI) at UT Health San Antonio, founding director Byron C. Hepburn, MD, FAAFP, Maj. Gen., United States Air Force, Ret., will retire happy in knowing that the institute will be in excellent hands when Robert I. Miller, MD, MBA, […]

Byron C. Hepburn, M.D., FAAFP, Maj. Gen., United States Air Force, Ret., founding director of the Military Health Institute (MHI) at UT Health San Antonio, featured third from left, is presented with a commemorate plaque from his MHI colleagues during his recent retirement celebration.

Clinical trial to investigate causes of diabetes, obesity in individuals with spinal cord injury and potential mitigatory effects of semaglutide

September 4, 2024

A first-of-its-kind investigation into the mechanisms behind diabetes and obesity in people with spinal cord injury and the antidiabetic and anti-obesity effects of semaglutide was recently approved for $3 million in National Institutes of Health funding. “This is one population in which they are susceptible to be more obese and having worse diabetes risk and […]

UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry names director of Center for Pain Therapeutics and Addiction Research

August 27, 2024

Kenneth M. Hargreaves, DDS, PhD, is a world-renowned expert in pain research Kenneth M. Hargreaves, DDS, PhD, professor of endodontics at the School of Dentistry of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), has been named inaugural director of the school’s Center for Pain Therapeutics and Addiction Research. Hargreaves, who chaired the […]