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April 6, 2015 • School of Public Health
To recognize this year's National Public Health Week, Monday through Saturday, UNT Health Science Center School of Public Health students will sponsor a Creative Health Innovations Contest, share their favorite healthy food or family/regional dish at a "Cultural Potluck" event, and team up to participate in the Victory Over Violence 5K/1K run/walk sponsored by The…
April 6, 2015 • Community
During April, the UNT Health Science Center Atrium Gallery comes alive with teen artists' creativity. Beginning Monday, the annual High School Art Competition will exhibit the work of talented 11th- and 12th-graders. Since 1985, this competition and show has given young people an opportunity to exhibit their best works in mixed media, color graphics, printmaking,…
April 3, 2015 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
A group of fourth-year students from Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, led by Richard Magie, DO, recently participated in a two-week clinical rotation in an underserved area in Guatemala. The Guatemala trip was conducted in partnership with DOCARE International and Thomas Shima, DO, from Charlton Methodist Hospital in Dallas. DOCARE International is a medical outreach…
April 2, 2015 • Physical Therapy, School of Health Professions
Wearing glasses with a camera embedded in the frames, a girl stands atop a platform as virtual balls roll toward her. How she dodges the balls will help UNT Health Science Center researchers better understand why people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have trouble responding to their environment. Surrounded by a 180-degree, wrap-around screen in…
April 1, 2015 • Community, Patient Care, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
One of Gabbi Saks' favorite parts of her medical education occurs once a month in a clinic at Cornerstone Assistance Network. That's where Saks and other Texas College of Medicine students triage and help care for uninsured patients at the Fort Worth nonprofit's Saturday charitable clinic. "You spend a lot of time with each patient…
March 30, 2015 • School of Public Health
The Texas Public Health Association (TPHA) has presented this year's Outstanding Service Award to UNTHSC adjunct instructor Melissa Oden, DHEd, LMSW-IPR, MPH, CHES. Dr. Oden teaches Behavioral and Community Health courses for UNTHSC's School of Public Health, where she also serves as Public Health Student Practice Experience Liaison. In presenting the award, TPHA President James…
March 30, 2015 • Education
Michele Whitehead has gone to the dogs, and they've fetched her national honors. Two years ago, she started the highly successful therapy dogs program at UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth. This spring, Whitehead, who's the Lewis Library Clinical and Research Services Coordinator, and a colleague will tell a national audience how it's done.…
March 27, 2015 • School of Public Health
Over the next year, a professor from South Korea will be immersing himself in Fort Worth culture and the way that public health is taught in the United States. As part of his sabbatical studies from Soonchunhyang University in Seoul, South Korea, Myung-Il Hahm, PhD, MPH, has joined the UNTHSC School of Public Health as…
March 26, 2015 • School of Public Health
Shlesma Chhetri, a doctoral student in UNT Health Science Center's School of Public Health, has been recognized by the Texas Public Health Association (TPHA) for a presentation on the sex trade and homeless women. Chhetri, who is working toward a PhD in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health, won the Outstanding Student Oral Presentation…
March 25, 2015 • Patient Care, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
For Yvette Clayborn, the past year was a blur of hospital rooms. Hypertension and other health issues forced the Fort Worth woman in and out of hospitals for most of 2014. She was always worried, unsure when headaches or fatigue signaled a dangerous spike in blood pressure. "It is exhausting," Clayborn, 51, said wearily. Today,…
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