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Surgical specialist William W. Turner Jr., M.D., appointed Professor Emeritus of Surgery.

Memory experts at UT Southwestern commonly see patients concerned about developing dementia. The patients may notice taking longer to remember details, or perhaps they’ve forgotten an event entirely. “But when should we worry, and when should we forget about it?” asked Dr. Brendan Kelley, a memory disorders expert and Vice Chair for Clinical Operations at UT Southwestern. “Sometimes memory issues are simply part of normal aging.” Dr. Kelley offered insight on the issue March 21 at the Carolyn P. Horchow Women’s Health Symposium, an annual campus event that this year included lectures from several doctors from UT Southwestern’s Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute.

Dr. Bethany Werner, this year's winner of the prestigious Ho Din Award

The award season for UT Southwestern nurses is in full swing and D Magazine’s “Excellence in Nursing Awards” shine a light on a no less than 21 of our RNs this year.

Through a generous $250,000 gift, Charles A. Sanders, M.D., and his wife Ann have established the Reata Distinguished Professorship in Molecular Medicine to support efforts in molecular medicine with an emphasis on biotechnology in the private sector.

In April, Dr. Mona was awarded the Ida M. Green Award. The honor is given to a female student of the UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences who has demonstrated scholastic excellence and outstanding citizenship in line with the values and mission of the Medical Center.

A UT Southwestern study suggests why urinary tract infections (UTIs) have such a high recurrence rate in postmenopausal women – several species of bacteria can invade the bladder walls.

Nearly half of current hospital admissions for heart failure are caused by a type of the disease with no treatment options. Cardiology researchers at UT Southwestern are changing that reality with a fresh approach, detailed in an article recently published in Nature.

Two new buildings to serve UT Southwestern’s ongoing growth in the high-priority areas of brain research and cancer patient care were celebrated at a groundbreaking June 4 on North Campus.

The UT Southwestern Circle of Friends, a donor engagement group that raises funds for biomedical research, recently awarded four early career research grants to promising clinician-scientists to further their investigations. The awards will support two Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute research teams and two individual cancer researchers at UT Southwestern.