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January 26, 2011 • Archive
The UNT Health Science Center and the North Texas Eye Research Institute will host an international conference February 17 - 20. The Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics (AOPT) 10th Scientific Meeting, held in the Medical Education and Training Building, will focus on bringing together clinicians, academicians and industry scientists from around the globe to…
January 25, 2011 • Archive
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on Colleges notified the UNT Health Science Center that its board has formally reaffirmed the Health Science Center's accreditation. The news follows extensive work by Health Science Center faculty and staff that included a site visit in March 2010. During that visit, the SACS team praised…
January 21, 2011 • Archive
UNT Health Science Center recently matched seven students from various universities in Texas participating in the Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) to be part of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine's Class of 2015. Now, more than 20 JAMP students have been accepted to TCOM, with the first three graduating in 2010. Created in 2000 by…
December 20, 2010 • Archive
UNT Health's new women's health and primary care physician practice office in far north Fort Worth will open in early January. Christopher Stevens, MD, board-certified OB/Gyn, certified nurse midwives and a primary care specialist, will begin seeing patients at UNT Health at Alliance on Jan. 6. The new office is located at 12650 North…
December 8, 2010 • Archive
Thinh Nguyen, a junior physics major at Texas Christian University and UNT Health Science Center McNair Scholar, recently earned one of the first-place awards in his category of presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Charlotte, N.C. His research explores a new delivery method of an anti-cancer drug, curcumin, to cancer…
December 6, 2010 • Archive
Canadian Television's W5 news segment recently investigated the need for a national DNA database in Canada. Sue Sgambati, CTV's crime specialist, interviewed the Health Science Center's Bruce Budowle, professor of Forensic and Investigative Genetics, about the missing persons "mass disaster." At any one time there are 7,000 people in Canada missing and approximately 600 unidentified…
November 19, 2010 • Archive
Dr. Arthur Eisenberg appeared on the 9 p.m. broadcast of KDAF Channel 33 news on Friday, Nov. 19, as part of the television report on the Dallas Police Department's Prostitute Diversion Initiative (PDI) in South Dallas.As part of the PDI, the Dallas Police Department and local social service agencies target a truck stop each month, giving…
November 17, 2010 • Archive
The UNT Health Science Center will be closed for Thanksgiving break Nov. 25-28. Administrative offices will re-open at 8 a.m., Monday, Nov. 29. All clinics staffed by UNT Health physicians will also be closed Nov. 25-28 in observance of the holiday. Regular clinic hours will resume on Monday, Nov. 29. The Lewis Library will close…
November 11, 2010 • Archive
November is National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month and National Family Caregivers Month. Approximately 340,000 people in Texas have Alzheimer's disease, and more than 850,000 caregivers care for them. Texas will have the nation's second largest population of senior citizens, 5.5 million, by 2025. By 2050, it is estimated that Texas will remain one of the…
November 5, 2010 • Archive
The certified nurse-midwives of UNT Health will begin accepting patients at the Eagle Ranch Family Medicine clinic in mid-November 2010. Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNM) are licensed healthcare practitioners providing primary healthcare to women of childbearing age and are educated in the two disciplines of nursing and midwifery. They are certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board.…
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