Another clinic exam room goes “kid friendly”

You're 4 years old. And you have to go to the doctor's office. It's much less scary to amble into an exam room painted with "Dora the Explorer," colorful animals and trees rather than a sterile white exam room for grown-ups.Thanks to the Physician Assistant Studies Class of 2011, another clinic exam room at the…

SACS officials visit campus

Representatives with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) will visit the UNT Health Science Center Tuesday, March 9, through Thursday, March 11, as the next-to-last step in the SACS reaffirmation process.SACS reaffirmation helps ensure that the Health Science Center has the right people, programs and facilities in place to become a Top 10…

Save the Date: Research Appreciation Day 2010

The UNT Health Science Center will host its eighteenth annual Research Appreciation Day (RAD) on Friday, April 23, at UNTHSC's Center for BioHealth. RAD, one of the Health Science Center's longest running traditions, is an opportunity for students, faculty and staff from all of UNTHSC's schools to share their research efforts with the campus and…

North Texas Health Forum tackles infant mortality issue

More babies die each year in Tarrant County than in almost any county in the U.S., possibly as a result of women's health throughout their lives. Experts in the battle against infant mortality will gather at the third annual North Texas Health Forum to discuss these critical data and create a plan to address Tarrant…

Biomedical Science program goes global

To help expand its influence globally and attract additional students, the Health Science Center's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) is launching its first joint degree program with an institution outside this country. The College of Biological Sciences at the Dayananda Sagar Institutions in Bangalore, India, is teaming with the Health Science Center to offer…

UNTHSC sponsors Cowtown health fair, races

The UNT Health Science Center is proud to be the presenting sponsor for the annual Cowtown Marathon Saturday, Feb. 27. The Health Science Center's faculty physician practice, UNT Health, will sponsor a health fair from 4 to 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 26, in the medical tent at 4th and Main in the Flying Saucer parking…

Nash named TCOM associate dean

Lisa Nash, DO ('91), has been named associate dean for Educational Programs at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. She replaces Don Peska, DO, who was named dean in September. Before joining the Health Science Center, Nash was a faculty member and program director for the AOA/ACGME certified Family Medicine Residency Program at the University…

Three from UNTHSC named HealthCare Heroes

Anuja Ghorpade, PhD, Robert Richard, DO, and Paul Bowman, MD, were named as 2010 HealthCare Heroes by the Fort Worth Business Press. They were honored at an awards dinner Thursday evening at the Fort Worth Club.Ghorpade, chair of Cell Biology and Anatomy, joined the Health Science Center in December 2007 to establish new research programs…

UNT Health Science Center’s Roby helps identify bodies of Chile’s Patio 29

Rhonda Roby, PhD, MPH, associate professor and project coordinator for the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification at UNT Health Science Center, was instrumental in recently identifying three murder victims of the Chilean Pinochet coup, buried in the Patio 29 cemetery.The Chilean government contacted Roby in 2006 to be the lead geneticist for…

UNTHSC closed Friday for inclement weather

The UNT Health Science Center and all UNT Health clinics will be closed Friday, Feb. 12, due to inclement weather. All university and clinic operations are planned to resume at 8 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 15.