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Dr. Houshmand’s dedication and skill in patient care have led to her selection as winner of the Ho Din Award, UT Southwestern Medical School’s most prestigious honor, given each year by Southwestern Medical Foundation to recognize a doctor with attributes inherent in great physicians. It was established in 1943 and comes with a medal, certificate, and $10,000 scholarship.

. Based on the findings he has made involving flaviviruses and his collaborative work on other viral diseases, Mr. Boys, a member of the Immunology Graduate Program, is this year’s recipient of the Nominata Award, the highest honor bestowed upon an advanced student of the UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

U.S. counties with higher percentages of smokers and violent crime and lower rates of high school graduates are associated with higher mortality rates from cardiovascular disease, according to new public health findings from UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiologists and data scientists.

Caroline de Gracia Lux, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, has been awarded the 2021 Haberecht Wildhare-Idea Research Grant for investigating a potential game-changing strategy to improve the outcomes of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, a type of lung damage that can be caused by COVID-19.

As graduates of the Medical School Class of 2020 prepare to launch their careers as doctors this summer, Center Times Plus celebrates this educational milestone. We talked to five graduating medical students about their special talents, significant medical school experiences, and challenges they’ve overcome that have shaped them. We are grateful to them for sharing their stories!

UT Southwestern’s latest class of Endowed Scholars in Medical Science includes researchers focused on proteins implicated in disease, new treatments for neurological disorders, and the human genome. Each Scholar will receive four years of financial support, from 2020-2023, to conduct cutting-edge research as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

Dr. Ambarish Pandey, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and a Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholar, is using big data to improve diuretic resistance among patients with acute heart failure. Patients hospitalized with heart failure often have volume overload – too much blood in one of the heart chambers for proper function – and are treated with diuretics. Many of these patients do not have an adequate urine output response to the diuretics initially administered, which leads to a prolonged hospital stay as well as persistent symptoms of shortness of breath, he explained.

Prenatal doctor visits for pregnant women using phones instead video technology encouraged more visits – particularly among vulnerable populations – and resulted in similar pregnancy outcomes compared with women who came in person, new research by UT Southwestern researchers found.

Dr. Arnoldo’s unique teaching style and passion for medicine were recently recognized by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation with a Piper Professor Award. This elite honor recognizes outstanding college professors in Texas.

Five early career physician-researchers are the first awardees to receive support from the UT Southwestern Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists (UT-FOCUS) program.