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Dr. Rodney Infante, who studies cancer cachexia, has been named a 2019 recipient of a Career Award for Medical Scientists by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF). He is among 13 scientists selected for this research grant, which provides support of $700,000 over five years.

To support women's urologic health research – and hopefully lead to new and better treatments – the Felecia and John Cain Chair in Women's Health, in Honor of Philippe Zimmern, M.D. has been established. The inaugural holder is Dr. Zimmern.

More than 60 bright blue signs now dot the roadside through the Southwestern Medical District (SWMD) and UT Southwestern campus, thanks to years of cooperation between several governmental entities. The system of gateway and wayfinding is designed to help visitors more easily navigate the area, including the UTSW campus, Parkland Hospital, and Children’s Medical Center Dallas.

The STARS program recently completed its 27th year of activities, with 51 high school students and a half-dozen teachers participating in the Summer Research Program (SRP) that featured eight weeks of research and learning in UT Southwestern laboratories plus weekly seminars.

UT Southwestern Medical Center will soon launch its 2019 Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), developed in response to an institutional commitment to team-based communication, and as a component of the reaffirmation of its accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).

Two local internship programs provide Dallas-area students opportunities for professional direction.

UT Southwestern’s living-donor programs offer better long-term outcomes because live donation allows patients to undergo surgery sooner in the course of their illness, with organs from the healthiest of donors. Center Times attended the Transplant Reunion, where several attendees shared their moving transplant journeys.

UT Southwestern is one of five North Texas health care systems recognized as “Most Wired” by the Dr. John C. Vanatta III spent more than 50 years of his career as a physiology professor at UT Southwestern. He lived during a divisive time in our nation’s history, but he strongly believed in unity and inclusion. In 1999, he established the Vanatta Scholarship Fund for African-American Medical Students.

Dr. Nneka Ifejika is one of those rare practitioners whose efforts go well beyond the medical, physical, vocational, and social workloads that accompany a job in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

UTSW party reunited about 100 former preemie (prematurely born) patients and family members with the NICU nurses and other medical staff who cared for them at Clements University Hospital.