University News Bureau Staff

The University News Bureau staff works with members of the news media to facilitate assistance with medical and science stories and is responsible for internal and external public communications of science and medical news and information.For specific beats, go to our Media Contacts page.

The office also produces Southwestern Medicine magazine, the Center Times newspaper, the monthly Grand Rounds calendar, academic catalogs, departmental newsletters and other special publications.

News Bureau staff may be contacted by sending an email message or by writing:

University News Bureau
UT Southwestern Medical Center
6363 Forest Park Road, Suite BLA.100
Dallas, TX 75390-9060
Phone: 214-648-3404
Fax: 214-648-9119
news@utsouthwestern.edu

Mike Berman, University News Bureau Director
michael.berman@utsouthwestern.edu
Beats: Administration, University Hospitals, Seton Family of Hospitals, Animal Resource Center, Nobel Laureates, Willed Body Program, Technology Transfer, Clinical Affairs Administration

Russell Rian, Public Relations Manager
russell.rian@utsouthwestern.edu
Beats: Multidisciplinary programs, burns/trauma/critical care, emergency medicine, epidemiology (Gulf War syndrome), orthopaedics, orthopaedic surgery, pain management, psychiatry/psychology, toxicology

Patrick Wascovich, Publications Manager
patrick.wascovich@utsouthwestern.edu

Lin Lofley, Center Times Editor
lin.lofley@utsouthwestern.edu
Beats: Southwestern Medical School administration

Angela Charlton, Design Production Coordinator
angela.charlton@utsouthwestern.edu

David Gresham, Photographer
david.gresham@utsouthwestern.edu

Laurie Hamilton, News Specialist
laurie.hamilton@utsouthwestern.edu
Beats: Grand Rounds calendar

Debbie Bolles, Senior Communications Specialist
debbie.bolles@utsouthwestern.edu
Beats: digestive diseases, Down syndrome, endocrinology, family & community medicine, GI surgery, geriatrics/gerontology, hepatitis, hepatology, immunology, internal medicine, kidney surgery/transplant, kidney/pancreas transplant, liver transplant, nephrology, nutrition and metabolic diseases, Center for Human Nutrition, pediatric cancer, pediatric surgery, pediatric transplant program, pediatrics, pharmacology, physician assistant studies, rehabilitation counseling, sickle cell diseases, surgical transplantation, Touchstone Diabetes Center, translational research, Transplant Services Center (tissue bank)

Jeff Carlton, Senior Communications Specialist
jeffrey.carlton@utsouthwestern.edu
Beats: Advanced Imaging Research Center, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, hematology-oncology, magnetic resonance imaging/spectroscopy, neurological surgery, neurology and neurotherapeutics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, physical therapy, physiology radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiology

Alex Lyda, Senior Communications Specialist
alex.lyda@utsouthwestern.edu
Beats: Cancer, cancer biology, ethics, Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, Moncrief Cancer Institute, nuclear medicine

Robin Russell, Senior Communications Specialist
robin.russell@utsouthwestern.edu
Beats: arthritis, cardiology, cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, community women’s health, dermatology, dermapathology, heart/lung/vascular, hypertension, Institute for Exercise & Environmental Medicine, kidney stones, lithotripsy, lupus, maternal/fetal medicine (ob/gyn), mineral metabolism, Moss Heart Center, ophthalmology,obstetrics and gynecology,oral and maxillofacial surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, prostate, pulmonary and critical care medicine, rheumatology, sleep disorders, urology, vascular surgery

Deborah Wormser, Senior Communications Specialist
deborah.wormser@utsouthwestern.edu
Beats: biochemistry, cell regulation, clinical sciences, developmental biology, genetics and development, infectious diseases, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (administration), immunology, integrative biology, McDermott Center for Human Growth & Development, medical laboratory sciences, microbiology, molecular biology, molecular biophysics, molecular genetics, molecular microbiology, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, neuropathology, pathology, Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, STARS program