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September 2, 2025 • College of Pharmacy pharmacy, pharmD, service dog,
When Elizabeth Brownen suddenly lost all hearing in her right ear during her first year of college, she couldn’t have imagined that the experience would eventually lead her not only to a life-changing partnership with “Rock," a sweet and loyal service dog, but also to a new direction in her academic and professional life. Brownen,…
September 2, 2025 • TCOM DO, osteopathic medicine, TCOM, volunteer,
When Kathryn Adkins started volunteering at Cook Children’s Medical Center in 2017, she wanted to make an impact on patients’ health. But it was the power of human connection she found while engaging with patients that would drive the next 10 years of her journey toward becoming a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. “I started volunteering…
August 28, 2025 • TCOM com, DO, Founders Day, founders day award, luibel service award, osteopathic medicine,
Two physicians with a lifetime of service to the osteopathic profession and the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine have been selected as the recipients of the TCOM Founders Award and the Mary E. Luibel Service Award. Albert H. Yurvati, DO, PhD, DSc(hc), DFACOS, FICS, FAHA, CPPS, is the 2025 TCOM Founders Award recipient, and Omar…
August 28, 2025 • TCOM DO, medical school, TCOM,
Tiffany Hang woke up to a lost voice one morning in August of 2019, and she was pretty certain it was just laryngitis, well, probably, but not 100% sure. You see, Hang had just spent the first four months of the year beating Stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and was in remission, or at least she…
August 25, 2025 • Banner feature, College of Public Health college of public health
Earlier this summer, the College of Public Health at UNT Health Fort Worth hosted its inaugural Writing Lab. The three-day event housed within the College of Public Health was available to members of the CPH, UNT Health and Fort Worth community. Twenty-seven participants including UNT Health faculty, research staff, doctoral students and external community partners…
August 19, 2025 • College of Health Professions, Physician Assistant Studies PA, Physician Assistant,
Kenya Samuels, an associate professor in UNT Health Fort Worth’s Physician Assistant Studies program, has been elected as a member-at-large to the Society for PAs in Pediatrics, or SPAP, board of directors, marking a significant step in her career and bringing national recognition to the program. Samuels, who joined SPAP in 2019, said the appointment…
August 19, 2025 • It's in our DNA, TCOM, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine osteopathic medicine, TCOM,
Haydon and Payton Miller have been together as long as they can remember, which you would expect for identical twins. They went to the same school system in the tiny town of Dimmitt, Texas. They went to Texas Tech for their undergraduate degrees and even were in the same Master of Science in Medical Science…
August 18, 2025 AI, grant, NIJ,
With support from a $2 million collaborative grant from the National Institute of Justice, researchers from UNT Health Fort Worth are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop new software to help forensic anthropologists accurately identify human remains. The project, titled “MOSAIC: Unifying Methods of Sex, Stature, Affinity & Age for Identification through Computational…
August 18, 2025 • North Texas Eye Research Institute eye, eye health, NTERI,
August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month -- just in time for students heading back to the classroom. According to Prevent Blindness, a nonprofit organization dedicated to eye health and safety, estimates that one out of every 122 children has permanent vision loss. This is a concerning statistic, considering that vision loss can be…
August 15, 2025 • Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine medical school, osteopathic medicine, TCOM,
Emma Astad remembers every detail of that day, even where the sun was in the sky the moment the phone call came with the heartbreaking news: her mother had been diagnosed with brain cancer. “That was the day I died in a way,” said Astad. “Who I was before that call came, I would never…
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