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November 4, 2013 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Lance Thornhill and Ryan Seals, DO Lance Thornhill woke up the day after Halloween 2012 and immediately called his wife, Trudee, visiting her mother in Kansas. "You'd better come home." When she heard what he had to say, she hurried back. He couldn't move his right leg. He describes the next few months, before he…
November 1, 2013 • Physical Therapy, School of Health Professions
Michael Connors, PT, DPT, OCS, is the new president-elect of the Texas Physical Therapy Association. He will begin his three-year term as president in 2014.The mission of the Texas Physical Therapy Association is to optimize the health and well-being of people in Texas by advancing physical therapist practice."I am humbled to serve my profession in…
October 31, 2013 • School of Biomedical Sciences
Rebecca Cunningham, PhD Testosterone replacement therapy is often prescribed to improve libido and boost energy in men. But for some, the sex hormone can damage brain health, researchers at UNT Health Science Center report. "Testosterone can be a good and protective hormone in the brain, or it can be bad," said Rebecca Cunningham, PhD, Assistant…
October 30, 2013 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
A behavioral sleep specialist at UNT Health Science Center says “falling back” is easier than “springing forward” when it comes to clock changes. The end of daylight saving time Sunday brings an extra hour of sleep and a relatively easy transition to the new clock schedule, said Brandy Roane, PhD, of UNTHSC’s Center for Sleep…
October 28, 2013 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Shawn Parsley, DO (TCOM '94) Shawn Parsley, DO, a graduate of UNT Health Science Center's Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, says that caring for the patient as a whole will be his guiding philosophy as the new president of the Texas Health Physicians Group. THPG is a nonprofit organization of 800-plus physicians, physician assistants,…
October 25, 2013 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Medical school enrollment at UNT Health Science Center has increased by 63 percent since 2006, positioning the Fort Worth osteopathic college to help address a growing shortage in primary care physicians. Fall enrollment in UNTHSC's Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) is at 907 students, up from 857 a year ago. Fall enrollment in 2006…
October 24, 2013 • Community
Jean Tips, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at UNT Health Science Center, has been named one of the 2013 Great Women of Texas by the Fort Worth Business Press for her business, civic and social contributions to the Fort Worth area. Tips, who has led marketing and communications efforts at the Health Science Center…
August 30, 2013
When the call came that 150 seventh-graders couldn't attend school for not having state-required vaccinations, Laura Standish, RN, knew exactly what to do. Within three days, Standish, obtained vaccines from the Tarrant County Public Health Department, recruited volunteers, set up operations in the Morningside Middle School library and was leading a free vaccination clinic on…
August 29, 2013
Sue Sheridan's son has brain damage because his health care team failed to communicate and left his neonatal jaundice untreated. Years later, her husband died after his spinal cancer diagnosis wasn't communicated among specialists. Sheridan now works for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute in Washington, D.C. Her videotaped story introduced nearly 600 students to a…
August 28, 2013
The 25th Annual Pelham P. Staples Jr., MD, Educational Symposium will be held Oct. 17-19 in the Sheraton Arlington Hotel in Arlington, Texas. This year's topic for the symposium, conducted by UNT Health Science Center's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the ForHER Institute, will be new trends and controversies in women's health care. The…
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