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  • Education
| October 28, 2013

TCOM graduate leads Texas Health Physicians Group

  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...

UNTHSC TCOM Students Sim Lab
  • Education
| October 25, 2013

Medical school enrollment on the rise at UNTHSC and osteopathic medical colleges nationwide

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...

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  • Community
| October 24, 2013

Jean Tips, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at UNTHSC, named one of the Great Women of Texas

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...

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  • Community
| August 29, 2013

UNTHSC removes barriers among health care professionals

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...

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  • Community
| August 28, 2013

25th Annual Pelham P. Staples Jr., MD, Educational Symposium set for Oct. 17-19

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...

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  • Community
| August 28, 2013

Wanted: Blood donations to save lives during Labor Day weekend

Here are some sobering facts: More than 42,000 people will be hurt in traffic accidents this Labor Day weekend, according to the National Safety Council. A car accident victim may need 100 pints of transfused blood. Blood donation is more...

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  • Community
| August 20, 2013

College of ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø classes begin with promise of career-long collaboration

The first class on the first day at the first pharmacy college in North Texas, also the first to be located on the campus of an academic health science center, began August 19 with a pledge."We only have you for...

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  • Community
| August 14, 2013

White Coat Ceremony at new College of ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø will honor pharmacy pioneers

The first students in the new UNT System College of ·¬ÇÑÉçÇø will receive their white coats on Saturday. Classes begin Monday. What's unique? This is the first pharmacy school in North Texas and the only in Texas situated on a...

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  • Community
| August 8, 2013

Unique program prepares physicians to lead rural prevention efforts

Imagine yourself in a rural setting where you're the only doctor. A patient's flu-like symptoms are getting worse, fast. But it's not flu season. And he has had several mosquito bites.  Tests confirm your fears: He has the West Nile...

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  • Community
| July 31, 2013

UNTHSC nurtures scientists at summer research intern program

Twenty-seven undergraduate scientists from across the U.S. have been hard at work this summer learning to conduct biomedical research as part of the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program. The annual summer outreach programs ---Summer Multicultural Advanced Research Training...