- Education
Physician assistant students win state Challenge Bowl
By Alex Branch A team of UNT Health Science Center physician assistant students captured the top prize at the Texas Academy of Physician Assistants Challenge Bowl. Students Lauren Atwood, Kristi Harring and Camille Jones won the Challenge Bowl on Feb....
- Education
TCOM alum serves her country as U.S. Assistant Surgeon General
By Alex Branch Dr. TeCora Ballom’s path to becoming U.S. Assistant Surgeon General started more than 30 years ago as a student at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. A recipient of a National Health Service Corps scholarship, the...
- Education
Honored for service to physical therapy
By Alex Branch Two UNT Health Science Center physical therapy professors received the highest service awards at the national meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association. Yasser Salem, PT, PhD, Interim Chair of the...
- Community
Keeping Cowtown runners safe
By Alex Branch The UNT Health Science Center medical team at the Cowtown Marathon will use a new digital tool to keep runners healthy and safe this weekend. Volunteers will use RaceSafe, an app that streamlines information sharing between runners...
- Our People
Bone-marrow donation to save a life
By Cari Hyden Saving lives is what health professionals do. Sometimes, an IT guy gets a crack at it, too. In donating bone marrow to a leukemia patient, Michael Hollis, Senior Systems Analyst, may have saved that patient’s life....
- Education
Public Health graduate finds international calling
By Sally Crocker Etienne Jaime (MPH ’16) found a path to helping underserved Nicaraguan communities through last year’s American Public Health Association (APHA) conference. The School of Public Health graduate networked with presenters and connected with staff from AMOS Health and...
- On Campus
Transitional Care Conference to seek ways to address families’ needs
By Jan Jarvis Soon after their daughter Kendall was born, Jocalyn and Justin Briggs were told their baby would not live past her third birthday. Now 8, Kendall is thriving with the help of an army of health care...
- Community
Training Texans to save a life
By Alex Branch More than 6,000 Texans know how to perform chest compressions, thanks to the efforts of 700 medical students across Texas, including about 100 from UNT Health Science Center Dr. Mehmet Oz from “The Dr. Oz Show” joined...
- Community
Learning CPR from Dr. Oz and UNTHSC
By Alex Branch UNT Health Science Center students will team with Dr. Mehmet Oz from The Dr. Oz Show to offer free CPR training Feb. 11- 12 as part of a statewide effort to teach 10,000 people the potentially life-saving...
- Research
New study finds probationers’ motivations predict how well they do on probation
By Sally Crocker People in the criminal justice system who are motivated to seek a better life stand a greater chance of completing probation and finishing treatment programs. That’s the finding of a recent study by Scott Walters, PhD, and...
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