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August 21, 2017 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Alex Branch Patrick Prazak was a high school baseball player who hoped to one day play professionally until his elbow started locking up after games. He underwent surgery, but soon after his shoulder started aching. As a freshman player at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, he realized medical treatments, rehabilitation time and school work…
August 17, 2017 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Jan Jarvis An international delegation of visitors from 12 countries came to Texas with one common goal: to learn more about how to prevent, treat and manage health problems affecting women around the globe. They found what they were looking for at UNT Health Science Center, one of six stops that the group…
August 11, 2017 • School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker For years, UNT Health Science Center’s Katherine Fogelberg, DVM, PhD, has donated her spare time to treating animals and finding homes for rescued pets. An Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health, Dr. Fogelberg has worked with zoo and wildlife animals as far away as South Africa, and has helped…
August 1, 2017 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Alex Branch A trio of UNT Health Science Center faculty members shared their expertise in clinical care and patient communication this summer with physicians in China. Frank Filipetto, DO, Janet Lieto, DO, and David Mason, DO, spent one week in Chengdu, a Chinese city in the Sichuan province, offering clinical instruction in pulmonary medicine…
July 24, 2017 • Education, Physical Therapy, School of Health Professions
By Alex Branch Myla Quiben, PT, DPT, PhD, prepares her physical therapy students to be health care providers of the future by simulating real-world clinical situations at UNT Health Science Center. Her simulations stress the significance of interprofessional communication – the ability to clearly and crisply share information with health care professionals from other disciplines.…
July 20, 2017 • College of Pharmacy
By Jan Jarvis UNT System College of Pharmacy student Mark Herndon had 10 minutes to research the drug that had been prescribed for a patient with Crohn’s disease. He spent his time focused on the patient and how he could make sure the man took the drug properly. When he sat down with the patient,…
July 13, 2017 • College of Pharmacy
By Jeff Carlton The College of Pharmacy at UNT Health Science Center has been accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), less than two months after graduating Fort Worth’s first class of pharmacy students. The accreditation status is a milestone for the UNT System College of Pharmacy, which was founded in 2011, began…
July 7, 2017 • North Texas Eye Research Institute, Research
By Betsy Friauf During four years earning her PhD in the Visual Science Graduate Program, Jaclyn Bermudez received prestigious awards for her dedication to research into how glaucoma robs millions of people of their eyesight. Now she’s taking her visionary reach to the next level by launching a career matching dollars with promising research. For…
June 30, 2017 • Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, School of Biomedical Sciences
By Alex Branch Two UNT Health Science Center researchers have been selected for leadership roles on National Institutes of Health scientific review boards. Meharvan “Sonny” Singh, PhD, Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Interim Director for the Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Disease Research, will chair the Aging Systems and Geriatrics Study…
June 29, 2017 • MD School
By Alli Haltom The inaugural class of 60 students at the planned TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine isn’t expected until summer 2019, but more than two dozen eighth graders have already gotten a peek of life at the new school. Twenty-seven students from Fort Worth ISD schools recently participated in Junior Medical School,…
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