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September 12, 2022 • Administration, Leadership Dr. Michael Williams, Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams, First Black Woman president, UNT System Board of Regents,
Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams has spent her entire career blazing new trails. Before joining The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth in 2020, she was the first Black woman to serve as Deputy Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps., then the first Black woman to rise to the…
September 8, 2022 • School of Public Health Aga Khan, Q&A, Shafik Dharamsi,
The HSC School of Public Health recently welcomed Dean Shafik Dharamsi, Ph.D. Dr. Dharamsi brings more than 25 years of transdisciplinary and international teaching, research and leadership experience to his new role. Born in Tanzania, he is a first-generation college graduate with a deep commitment to student success. His professional career includes work as regional…
August 23, 2022 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine American Epilepsy Society, Cook Children’s Medical Center, Dani Esteban, Dr. Scott Perry, Genetic Epilepsy Clinic, Grass Foundation Young Investigator Award, Scientific Program Committee.,
Dani Esteban has a love of children, pediatrics and neurology. Through her dedicated research with Cook Children’s Medical Center, she was awarded the 2022 Grass Foundation Young Investigator Award. Esteban, a fourth-year student at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, received the award on behalf…
August 19, 2022 • Administration
After a nearly eight-month national search and thoughtful consideration, the University of North Texas System Board of Regents announced the selection of Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams as the sole finalist for president of The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC). Dr. Trent-Adams will become the seventh president in the university’s history…
August 18, 2022 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Janet Lieto, Health Systems Science curriculum, Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship,
Dr. Janet Lieto, the director of Health Systems Science, Leadership and Innovation and an Associate Professor at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine was selected to participate in the highly esteemed American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine’s Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship. The Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship is a year-long leadership training program designed to…
August 16, 2022 • Students, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine American Physician Scientist Association’s, D.O./Ph.D. program, Dr. Michael Smith, Dr. Robbie Cooksey, Luke Cooksey, M.D. Anderson,
It was the summer of 2015 and Luke Cooksey had just begun a research internship at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston as an undergrad student. Each day he rode the bus to work. It was there he met a man from Georgia, the same age as Cooksey, who was getting treatment for Leukemia. The…
August 9, 2022 • Editor's Picks, Our People, Physical Therapy, School of Health Professions Doctor of Physical Therapy, Jan Libby, Rafael Saldana-Vazquez, School of Health Professions, Susan Libby,
It was a moment no adult child ever wants to experience with their elderly parent. Susan Libby’s 92-year-old mother had fallen face-first onto Fort Worth’s busy 7th Street, near the HSC campus, during the high-traffic weekday lunch rush. A simple misunderstanding between the elderly mother and her two daughters, Libby and her sister, Jan, led to confusion…
June 22, 2022 • Administration, Editor's Picks, Leadership Ruth Roman
To say Ruth Roman has been at the center of high-level decisions would be an understatement. In her role as the executive officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, her leadership produced positive outcomes that have rippled across the world, including orchestrating Phase II of the coordination of Human Health and Services’…
May 16, 2022 • Banner feature, Education, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
The Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth has named Priya Bui, DO, CPPS, FAAP chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Women’s Health. Dr. Bui, a 2011 TCOM graduate who has served as interim chair since March 2021, is the first female chair of…
May 11, 2022 • Education, School of Public Health
“Trust” is a powerful word. In research, the reliability of data and the methods used to analyze that data can change people’s lives and have a profound impact on the world. Research scientists, especially in public health, want to know that the information they report and the conclusions they offer are based on the most…
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