- Education
For 2021 academic achievement honoree, food equals love, connections, healthy communities and more
By Sally Crocker Food has inspired student Amber Deckard’s academic career path and community service endeavors for as long as she can remember. Deckard - winner of this year’s University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) School of Public Health (SPH) Dean’s Commencement Award for...
- Research
At HSC, experts search for cures to ‘most aggressive form of brain cancer’
By Diane Smith-Pinckney Malignant brain tumors, known as glioblastoma multiforme, spread aggressively and are described as incurable. The five-year survival rate for people diagnosed with this cancer – also known as GBM – is only 6.8 % and the average length of survival for people with GBM is about 12 to 18 months, according to...
- Education
Tourniquet training pays off in emergency for HSC PA alum
By Alex Branch Emily Holloway (PA ’20) has sewn shut plenty of open wounds at the rural urgent care center where she works in on the East Coast. But she hadn’t encountered anything like the bleeding man who rushed through the clinic’s doors recently....
- COVID-19
HSC alumnus leads Denton County Public Health’s nationally-praised vaccine efforts in the charge against COVID-19
By Sally Crocker Denton County Public Health has grabbed national headlines lately as being one of the most successful COVID-19 vaccination hubs in the U.S....
- Our People
Hometown hero: TCOM grad thriving in pediatrics and Fort Worth
By Steven Bartolotta A Fort Worth born and raised girl dreams of becoming a physician since childhood, becomes a first-generation college graduate, first-generation medical student and then returns home to begin her career as a pediatrician. That’s just the cliff notes version of Dr. Bianka...
- Our People
TCOM faculty, students and alumni honored by AOF
By Steven Bartolotta A top-flight career of quality, compassion and excellence received an exclamation point as the American Osteopathic Foundation named Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Dr. Janice Knebl the 2020 Physician of the Year. Dr. Knebl, TCOM’s Interim Chair of...
- COVID-19
Each patient’s story illuminates Tarrant County COVID data, strengthens contact tracing
By Sally Crocker HSC 2020 graduate Julia Aiken was finishing the last semester of her MPH in Public Health Practice when COVID-19 arrived. By May, she had finished her degree and was helping Tarrant County Public Health’s (TCPH) with contact tracing efforts to track and help stop community spread of the virus. Aiken volunteered extra hours above her temporary work...
- Our People
TCOM grad creates scholarship to increase minorities in medicine
By Steven Bartolotta Dr. April Enard knows the statistics are bad. In the United States, the percentage of active African American physicians is at a meager five percent. That's why Dr. Enard, a 2011 Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine alum, has made it her...
- Our People
Call of duty
By Diane Smith Mikel Bell’s plan to become a doctor came while fighting the war on terrorism in Iraq where he gave medical support to U.S. Marines. In 2007, Bell was a Navy corpsman embedded with a Marine unit fighting in Iraq, removing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and stopping...
- Our People
HSC grad finishes MPH degree while on Army deployment in Kuwait
By Sally Crocker There was a big celebration in Kuwait when new HSC graduate Maurico Ripley’s diploma arrived with the daily mail. Ripley is a Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3) who has been deployed to the Middle East for most...
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