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Match Day at UT Southwestern

Neil M. Rofsky, M.D., the Department of Radiology's fourth chair, understands the department's legacy of excellence and innovation and came to head the department during another time of unprecedented expansion.

Since 2013, Edward Daniel has been a familiar presence at UT Southwestern Match Day celebrations, performing the drumroll that gives eager medical students the signal to rip into envelopes that reveal their residency program matches.

James Martin's extraordinary life took him from the small town of St. James, Missouri, to the burgeoning city of Dallas. After attending the Vichy Normal and Business Institute in Vichy, Missouri, he completed studies in general medicine at St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons.

In a year when protests over racial justice gripped the nation, UT Southwestern’s Office of Institutional Equity and Access, Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion, and Office of Faculty Diversity and Development found ways to bring the campus together for necessary conversations about race. The offices sponsored both collaborative and independent virtual events to keep staff, students, and faculty engaged even as a large part of the UTSW community continued to work and learn remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Jack Reynolds left such an impression on students that they frequently asked to take his classes a second time. Fourth-year medical students lined up for his elective course in diagnostic radiology, which simply became known as "Jack Reynolds."

Dr. Priyanka Gaur came from a family of engineers on her father’s side and doctors on her mother’s. She headed off to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for college thinking she would explore engineering, but her desire to care for patients led her to medicine instead.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Bridge Program, which was created to increase the number of Black, Latino, and Indigenous students earning doctorates in chemistry, has named UT Southwestern as the first academic medical center in the nation to serve as a Bridge Site.

Turning a plane into a flying ICU requires innovation and creativity, he said. And with talk of the Space Force and future space exploration come exciting questions about anesthesia and surgical capabilities in the space realm, he added. The goal, he said, is “to save the lives of young men and women who sacrifice their lives for our country.”

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