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Imagine if you could save your parent’s life by donating a piece of your own. That’s what happened when the first living-donor liver transplant took place last year at UT Southwestern. During a simultaneous 7-hour surgery, a Texas daughter donated 60 percent of her liver to her mother.

Dr. Kenneth Altshuler, a Professor Emeritus and longtime Chair of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern who helped to advance mental health causes in Dallas, died Jan. 6.

UT Southwestern employees recently gathered for the inaugural UT Southwestern Health System Celebration of Excellence to highlight and recognize UTSW’s top achievements in quality improvement over the past year. Open to the entire campus, the event emphasized how teamwork, innovation, and compassion all contribute to providing excellent patient care.

Learn about the faculty members who have been named Dedman Scholars at UT Southwestern.

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Sometimes “paying it forward” creates a web of good works that leads right back to the giver. That’s the story of Tim Ervin, who in 2014 received a lifesaving double-lung transplant at UT Southwestern.

The opportunity to draw upon UT Southwestern’s dual strengths in outstanding clinical care and translational research to develop new treatment options attracted Dr. Nader Pouratian, a neurosurgeon known for innovative surgical care for depression, blindness, and movement disorders, to the role of Chair of Neurological Surgery. UT Southwestern is ranked No. 17 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in neurology and neurosurgery.

One of 50 recipients of a 2021 Gilliam Graduate Fellowship for Advanced Study, Ms. Álvarez Benedicto will use grant funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support her research to repurpose lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for cancer treatment.

Peggy Joyce Whalley, M.D., a Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UT Southwestern whose pioneering work with high-risk pregnancies saved thousands of expectant mothers and their offspring during a 32-year career at the medical center, died July 6 in Austin. She was 94.

The latest methods use high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) waves to penetrate the brain and remove unhealthy tissue. It is similar to how children use a magnifying glass to focus the sun’s rays and burn a scrap of paper – only instead of sunlight, ultrasound is used.