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Professor Emeritus of Surgery Dr. Robert N. McClelland, one of the last surviving members of the Parkland Memorial Hospital surgical team who worked on President John F. Kennedy after he was shot in Dallas, died Sept. 10. He was 89.

Lauren Duan spent the summer working alongside UT Southwestern faculty members and postdocs focused on cardiac regeneration and investigating how cardiomyocytes can be programmed to regenerate and resist cell death.

Starting this fall, the biggest public high schools in Texas are required to report all sports concussions to a UT Southwestern database in one of the nation’s largest statewide endeavors to track brain injuries in youth.

Exercising several times a week may delay brain deterioration in people at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study that scientists say merits further research to establish whether fitness can affect the progression of dementia.

In a surprise finding, UT Southwestern researchers report that lowering levels of the hormone leptin can reduce obesity, overeating, and the insulin resistance tied to diabetes – and they have found an antibody that can do that.

Researchers may finally have an answer in the long-running controversy over whether the common surgical mask is as effective as a more expensive respirator-type mask in protecting health care workers from respiratory viruses.

Match Day at UT Southwestern

With support from the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), the Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern will work to more accurately identify at-risk patients with prediabetes or the Type 2 condition and steer them into proactive community programs.

In the summer of 2018, several grateful former fellows, along with family and friends, established the Professorship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, in Honor of Bruce R. Carr, M.D., through Southwestern Medical Foundation. This Professorship will provide funding to a leading faculty member in reproductive endocrinology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Institutional Service Award