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February 17, 2022 • Entrepreneurship, HSC Innovates, Our People
By Libby Maness Kendel Rogers is a storyteller. She brings people’s ideas and inventions to life. As the Outreach Specialist for HSC Next, she regularly engages with an impressive roster of innovators – students, scientists, clinicians, educators and entrepreneurs – from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and the Fort…
February 14, 2022 • Our People, Public Health, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker Erika Thompson, PhD, MPH, has achieved a level of professional recognition considered rare and outstanding for early career scientists in their field. An Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) School of Public Health (SPH) and Program Director for the…
December 10, 2021 • Our People
By Sally Crocker Since its beginning in 2015, the HSC Valubility of the Year celebration has become one of the most anticipated events around campus. This year, more than 700 people attended lunchtime watch parties and joined via Livestream to cheer on four selected individuals and one team of three as they received recognition for living Our Values related to Serving Others…
November 22, 2021 • Our People, School of Public Health
By Sally Crocker The first Hope Award honoring a volunteer whose extraordinary efforts make a significant difference in advancing the mission of the Center for Transforming Lives (CTL) has been presented to Dr. Erika Thompson at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC). Dr. Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the HSC School of Public Health and…
October 13, 2021 • Our People
By Diane Smith-Pinckney Historically, when people think about Hispanic Americans, they picture Spain or Mexico, but their ancestral and cultural ties are as varied and vast as the Western Hemisphere. “Those cultures all have their nuances, we have some similarities. We all speak the same language, but even within the culture itself, those smaller cultures create diversity that sometimes is not recognized,” explained Desiree Ramirez, Senior Vice President…
September 10, 2021 • Education, Our People
By Diane Smith-Pinckney Every 11 minutes there is a death by suicide in the United States. In 2019, more than 47,500 people died of suicide and 1.4 million attempted suicide, according to statistics gathered by the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Experts at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth…
August 2, 2021 • Our People, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
John Mills, DO, a long-time HSC faculty member, has been appointed to serve on the Texas Opioid Abatement Fund Council by Governor Greg Abbott. Drug overdose deaths increased 34 percent in Texas from 2019 to 2020. The Council’s duties include developing the approved Texas list of abatement strategies based on the existing national list of opioid abatement…
July 6, 2021 • Our People, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Steven Bartolotta Dr. John Licciardone of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Director of the Osteopathic Research Center and its PRECISION Pain Research Registry, is the 2021 recipient of the George W. Northup, DO, Medical Writing Award, the American Osteopathic Association has announced. The award is based on the article, “Osteopathic Medical Care With…
May 28, 2021 • Education, Health Disparities Campaign, Our People, Texas Center for Health Disparities
By Alex Branch The University of North Texas Health Science Center (HSC) at Fort Worth will significantly expand a program that creates diversity in the medical and biomedical sciences fields thanks to a $3.9 million grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Cancer disproportionally affects certain races and ethnicities, creating a disparity in diagnosis and outcomes among…
May 19, 2021 • Community, Health Disparities Campaign, Our People, Texas Center for Health Disparities
By Diane Smith-Pinckney The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (HSC) is working with the Texas Community Engagement Research Alliance (CEAL), the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) and the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) to host the 16th Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities. The event, titled “Community Approaches to Health Equity,”…
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