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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.

The Southwestern Health Resources Accountable Care Network (SWHR ACN) saved almost $30 million in 2017, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). These savings place it at the top of organizations participating in the CMS Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model. The savings resulted in an overall quality score of 100 percent for that fiscal year.

UT Southwestern has received the 2020 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.

Researchers with the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute at UT Southwestern have identified a new protein implicated in cell death that provides a potential therapeutic target that could prevent or delay the progress of neurodegenerative diseases following a stroke.

Answers to common questions about veterinary oncology services, clinical trials, and patient care at UT Southwestern’s Veterinary Research and Oncology Clinic.

Dr. Barbara Cambridge, the first African American full-time faculty member at UT Southwestern, is remembered as a passionate advocate for the health of vulnerable women in Dallas. The respected social worker died Sept. 26 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Orhan Bukulmez, who specializes in helping families with fertility issues become new parents, has been named the first holder of the Professorship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, in Honor of Bruce R. Carr, M.D. Doctors who trained under Dr. Carr helped fund the new Professorship.

UT Southwestern researchers have been awarded more than $10 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how exercise-induced brain activity leads to changes in metabolism and body composition.

Dr. Animesh Tandon, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Radiology for UT Southwestern and pediatric cardiologist at Children’s Medical Center Dallas has been developing and refining virtual reality software over the past two years to address complex congenital heart defect cases.

Preventive cardiologists are looking for ways to detect early stage heart disease in people who aren’t currently in treatment – and a new blood test for protein biomarkers could be the answer.