Celebration and anticipation

By Jan Jarvis   Match Day – the annual event where medical students learn which residency programs they will attend after graduating from UNT Health Science Center – is a cause for celebration and anticipation. With the opening of envelopes at 11 a.m. on Friday, medical students across the country and at the Health Science…
TCOM student

Commitment to care earns UNTHSC spot in magazine rankings

By Jeff Carlton   UNT Health Science Center’s dedication to primary care has received national recognition for the 15th consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of medical schools. Among the magazine’s ranked programs, UNTHSC’s Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) is first in Texas and second nationally in the percentage of…

Students launch ‘unprecedented’ effort to teach CPR in Texas

By Alex Branch   Would you know how to react in a cardiac emergency? About 70 percent of Americans say they would feel helpless because they do not know how to perform CPR. UNT Health Science Center medical students are doing their part to change that in Texas. About 50 Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine…
Bibas Reddy

A spirit of family and teamwork

By Alex Branch   Bibas Reddy, DO, medical oncologist at The Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders, has long considered UNT Health Science Center family. His brother, Hari Reddy, DO, and sister-in-law, Chandana Reddy, DO, both attended Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at the same time as Dr. Reddy. And several of his close friends…
Terrence and Ramona Gratton

New endowment helps further public health

By Sally Crocker Professor Emeritus Terry Gratton, DrPH, remembers his years of teaching at UNT Health Science Center’s School of Public Health (SPH) as one of the most rewarding times of his career. As a result, he and his wife of 42 years have established the Terrence and Ramona Gratton Endowed Scholarship to help doctoral…
Rhett Butler and Erica Onwuegbuchu

‘Big concepts’ in cancer treatment

By Alex Branch When students in the Master of Science program in Medical Sciences sat down to plan a community service project, they weren’t interested in anything routine. “We wanted to make an impact,” student Rhett Butler said. “We wanted to do something that has never been done at UNT Health Science Center.” Butler, Erica…
Chandler Sparks and Family

A special way of giving back

By Betsy Friauf This holiday season, an abandoned newborn boy has a loving home because medical student Chandler Sparks, 24, and his wife, Emily, feel called to serve humankind. They are the foster parents of a baby born this fall whose mother left him at the hospital. He went into foster care immediately, and his…
Mother and baby

Medical student works to reduce infant deaths

By Betsy Friauf Third-year medical student Kristen Slaymaker is working to change Tarrant County’s soaring infant mortality rate. Her research on unsafe sleeping conditions for babies is winning awards, and she is seeking ways to educate parents so they can keep their babies safer at night. “We found that it’s not unusual for mothers we…
Dennis Thombs

A career path focused on reducing alcohol- and drug-related harms

By Sally Crocker The year was 1986 when the country was stunned by the news that first-team All-American college basketball player Len Bias had died of a cocaine/alcohol overdose on the University of Maryland campus. The young athlete – described by some sportswriters as one of the greatest college players ever – had just been…
Myriam Martinez-Banuelos

Healthier communities know no borders

By Cari Hyden Myriam Martinez-Banuelos discovered a way to create healthier communities both in Texas and in Mexico – simultaneously. As a result, many librarians in Mexico now are aware of Spanish-language health information resources provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). And Martinez-Banuelos has better insights into the Hispanic culture, an underrepresented…