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August 28, 2025 • TCOM DO, medical school, TCOM,
Tiffany Hang woke up to a lost voice one morning in August of 2019, and she was pretty certain it was just laryngitis, well, probably, but not 100% sure. You see, Hang had just spent the first four months of the year beating Stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and was in remission, or at least she…
August 19, 2025 • College of Health Professions, Physician Assistant Studies PA, Physician Assistant,
Kenya Samuels, an associate professor in UNT Health Fort Worth’s Physician Assistant Studies program, has been elected as a member-at-large to the Society for PAs in Pediatrics, or SPAP, board of directors, marking a significant step in her career and bringing national recognition to the program. Samuels, who joined SPAP in 2019, said the appointment…
August 19, 2025 • It's in our DNA, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine osteopathic medicine, TCOM,
Haydon and Payton Miller have been together as long as they can remember, which you would expect for identical twins. They went to the same school system in the tiny town of Dimmitt, Texas. They went to Texas Tech for their undergraduate degrees and even were in the same Master of Science in Medical Science…
August 18, 2025 AI, grant, NIJ,
With support from a $2 million collaborative grant from the National Institute of Justice, researchers from UNT Health Fort Worth are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop new software to help forensic anthropologists accurately identify human remains. The project, titled “MOSAIC: Unifying Methods of Sex, Stature, Affinity & Age for Identification through Computational…
August 18, 2025 • North Texas Eye Research Institute eye, eye health, NTERI,
August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month -- just in time for students heading back to the classroom. According to Prevent Blindness, a nonprofit organization dedicated to eye health and safety, estimates that one out of every 122 children has permanent vision loss. This is a concerning statistic, considering that vision loss can be…
August 15, 2025 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine medical school, osteopathic medicine, TCOM,
Emma Astad remembers every detail of that day, even where the sun was in the sky the moment the phone call came with the heartbreaking news: her mother had been diagnosed with brain cancer. “That was the day I died in a way,” said Astad. “Who I was before that call came, I would never…
August 14, 2025 • College of Health Professions, Physician Assistant Studies chp, HIV, PA,
In a packed lecture hall at UNT Health Fort Worth, first-year physician assistant students listened as Dr. Marc Johnson of JPS Health Network’s Healing Wings Clinic delivered a frank presentation on HIV — how it is acquired, how it is treated and how it continues to be misunderstood. It was part of a symposium organized…
August 14, 2025 • Leadership president
The UNT System Board of Regents voted unanimously to officially name Dr. Kirk Calhoun as president of UNT Health Fort Worth and Dr. Warren von Eschenbach as president of UNT Dallas, respectively. The unanimous vote comes after Texas' mandatory 21-day plus waiting period for presidential appointments. The Board named Dr. Calhoun and Dr. von Eschenbach as sole finalists…
August 14, 2025 • TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine AAFP, AAFP emerging scholar, TCOM,
A prestigious opportunity is on the horizon for Brittany Uebbing, a third-year student at the UNT Health Fort Worth’s Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, as she was selected by the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation to join this year’s Emerging Leader Institute. Uebbing is one of just 30 new scholars that are comprised of…
August 14, 2025 • College of Pharmacy CoP, leadership, pharmacy,
The College of Pharmacy has experienced a season of significant transitions, marked by leadership changes and new faculty appointments that reflect both growth and continuity within the college. At the heart of this shift is the transition of Dr. Tina Machu, a foundational figure in the college. Machu has been instrumental in shaping the college’s…
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