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Developmental behavioral pediatric specialists made a 36 percent increase in language disorder diagnoses, a nearly 28 percent increase in nonspecific developmental/behavioral diagnoses, and a 13 percent increase in intellectual disability diagnoses, according to the study appearing in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing.

25 years of Employment at UT Southwestern

Overview of the Addiction Psychiatry Division in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern

.One of the most mysterious functions of the brain is its ability to form a memory of an experience, said Dr. Mengni Wang, a recent neuroscience graduate of the UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. To understand how this happens, she studied how spatial memory is formed when a rat explores an environment. For this research, Dr. Wang was selected for a Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. Given by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, the award recognizes outstanding achievement in graduate studies in the biological sciences. It includes an honorarium and a certificate. Thirteen award recipients were chosen this year from among nominations received internationally.

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.

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.

Three nurses, a housekeeping attendant, a physical therapist, and a social worker are the most recent winners of UT Southwestern’s Diana and Richard C. Strauss Service Excellence Awards.

A nonsurgical procedure that uses innovative valve devices – both developed through multicenter clinical studies, including at UT Southwestern – is giving patients with severe emphysema a new treatment option that allows them to breathe easier.

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.

On Aug. 1, Arindam Roy’s life tragically changed forever. His wife, Sarmistha Sen, a cancer researcher in UT Southwestern’s Department of Radiation Oncology, left for her customary early-morning jog. She never returned.