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With the number of COVID-19 cases increasing in North Texas, UT Southwestern ramped up efforts to meet the challenge of caring for patients while taking additional steps to protect faculty, students, and staff.

Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. With the help of advanced imaging from UT Southwestern, however, the inner beauty and unseen intricacies of a Senufo helmet mask from the Dallas Museum of Art’s African collection are being appreciated more than ever before.

“I think preparing our workforce to care for the complex needs of older adults, especially related to cognitive care, is critical at this time in history,” said Dr. Camp, who has been named the inaugural holder of the Jake Tobolowsky Professorship in Psychiatry, in Memory of Helen B. Tobolowsky and in Honor of Dr. David M. Tobolowsky.

About 8,000 UT Southwestern employees would need to begin working from home in a matter of days as the campus and the community responded to the coronavirus pandemic.

All UT Southwestern employees, faculty, students, trainees, and applicants should carefully review UTSW’s Office of Equity and Access' Equal Opportunity policy and the related policies for helpful information.

Mandell Butler Jr. doesn’t just support his patients as a nurse practitioner; he also serves his country as a lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve. Because his supervisors at UT Southwestern make that combination easier, he nominated two of them to receive Patriot Awards.

Valerie is just one of many community members and businesses across North Texas that have banded together to put needed supplies in the hands of health care workers. Valerie’s “Masks Matter” campaign raised $7,500, including money contributed online, matching funds from a local business, and a personal donation of more than $1,000 from her savings. With the money, she was able to deliver 10,000 surgical masks and 1,200 FFP2 respirator masks on April 24.

In an effort to improve treatment for patients with COVID-19, UT Southwestern has established a patient registry with its partner institutions to collect health records of North Texans who have either been treated or tested for the disease.

COVE started in 2015 as a way to reduce the high level of emergency department visits and hospitalizations among the elderly, which can be expensive and, most importantly, hard on patients who are often frail. In recent months, COVE has become even more valuable – an almost certain lifesaver – as the COVID-19 crisis has forced the vulnerable elderly population to stay at home as much as possible to avoid contracting the highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Last November, UT Southwestern began to phase in online scheduling with a first round of about 100 physicians. During its initial three months, more than 800 patients did just that, and 25 percent of them used the service after 5 p.m. or on the weekend.