Social determinants of health training focuses on thinking beyond medicine

June 19, 2023

June 20 event draws about 200 medical residents, fellows-in-training Contact: Steven Lee, 210-450-3823, lees22@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO, June 20, 2023 – To Averi White, MD, a third-year internal medicine resident, health care is as much about the circumstances that bring her patients to see her as the treatment she provides. “Social determinants of health are the […]




Careers await for 1,100 graduates who will keep San Antonio, and beyond, healthy

May 5, 2023

  More than 1,100 students, including a female majority, are projected to receive degrees and certificates from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio during commencement ceremonies this spring and summer. “We are extremely proud of this year’s candidates, who have distinguished themselves by their academic accomplishments, by competing successfully for residency […]





Students learn compassionate care through street nursing

March 2, 2023

A single event in 2010 changed the country of Haiti. The same event — a magnitude 7.0 earthquake — also changed the way a UT Health San Antonio nurse views homelessness. Like many health care professionals, Diana Cavazos, PhD, MSN, MHSA, RN, then a school nurse in Puerto Rico, felt compelled to join a nonprofit […]