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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

UT Southwestern Frisco is slated to open this fall, but Bill Tate has already saved the facility’s first patient: a proud pecan tree that is rooted in Frisco’s past.

UT Southwestern serves a very diverse population throughout North Texas, and the institution aims to attract a campus community that reflects that diversity

Institutional Service Award

It was a picture perfect day for a stroll in downtown Dallas as UTSW participated in the 2019 American Heart Association’s (AHA) Dallas Heart Walk Sept. 14 at Reunion Park.

Dr. Marilynn Punaro appointed Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics.