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January 23, 2020 • College of Pharmacy, School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Professions, School of Public Health, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Alex Branch Alan Stucky carries Naloxone everywhere. The UNT System Vice Chancellor and General Counsel always is prepared to administer the opioid reversal drug, also known by its brand name Narcan, should he encounter someone suffering an opioid overdose. He does this in loving memory of his son, Holden. On Sept. 25, 2017, Holden…
December 11, 2019 • Community, Education, Students, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Diane Smith In 2014, Rupali Gautam posed for a photo in front of the University of North Texas Health Science Center sign that overlooks Camp Bowie Boulevard – it’s an image that in retrospect predicted the medical student’s future. “It feels very meant to be,” said Gautam of the picture that now hangs in…
December 9, 2019 • Community, Continuing education, School of Public Health, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Sally Crocker Forty-three years ago, a young girl left Alabama for Fort Worth, anxious to meet up with her Texas cousins to find a meaningful career and a new place to call home. Ywanda Carter’s mother believed that an education was good to have, as long as a girl backed it up with useful…
December 9, 2019 • Behavioral and Community Health, Community, Family Medicine, Patient Care, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Steven Bartolotta It was a frigid morning in the parking lot of W.J. Turner Elementary School when a mother went knocking on a door of an RV parked at the school. She was looking for help for her 6-year-old son, who has been battling a nasty strain of strep throat. And she found it…
November 20, 2019 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Diane Smith Rural Texas, with its 3 million-plus people and stretches of wide open space, is the setting for a healthcare crisis characterized by hospital closures, OB deserts and a lack of doctors. It’s a healthcare plight receiving in-depth attention this week (Nov. 18-22) during Rural Health Week at the UNT Health Science Center.…
November 1, 2019 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Steven Bartolotta When Aurea Baez-Martinez and her husband arrived in the United States with their daughter in January 2017, they had nothing but each other, a few clothes and a couple of toys for the little girl. It was a big move for a family that had spent their entire lives in Puerto Rico,…
October 11, 2019 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Jan Jarvis A clarinet player in a high school marching band might not think twice about how long hours of practicing damages his body. But a collaboration of educators working to improve the health of performing artists does. The Texas Center for Performing Arts Health, which includes faculty from the University of North Texas…
October 4, 2019 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Steven Bartolotta and Jennifer Hetro In life, your path is meant to cross with some certain people. Allyson Matthys, DO, and Vikaash Persad, DO, 2017 Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine graduates, are two of those people. Matthys grew up in small-town Texas, one of four daughters to a pair of educators and a descendent…
October 2, 2019 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Alex Branch Chelsee Greer was 13 when Dr. W. Paul Bowman sat in her hospital room and gently explained how he would try to cure her cancer. Five hours from their Odessa home, Greer and her mother, Lindee, traveled to Fort Worth after Greer’s hometown pediatrician suspected her fatigue, low-grade fever and night sweats…
September 20, 2019 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
By Steven Bartolotta One day last year, TCOM medical student Taylor Orcutt joined other members of the Pediatric Club to administer eye screenings on children at Glen Park Elementary School. Orcutt, whose left arm ends at the elbow because of a rare birth defect, has never let that stand in the way of what she…
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