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Discover the Medical Education Distinction at UT Southwestern Medical School, where students gain teaching skills and recognition as future clinician educators.

Dr. Kenneth Altshuler, who transformed the Department of Psychiatry into a national leader in mental health while serving as its Chair for more than two decades, has been appointed Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry.

Graduate student Lupita Rios has two passions – neuroscience and planting. One might not seem like it has anything to do with the other, but through both avenues she strives to make people feel better.

Dr. Sangeetha Reddy investigates how to improve breast cancer patient outcomes through immunotherapy. Dr. Lenette Lu’s research largely revolves around studying tuberculosis, the leading cause of infectious disease deaths globally. Their commitment to advancing patient care has led to their selection as 2019 UT Southwestern Disease-Oriented Clinical Scholars (DOCS).

Dr. Norman Kaplan, a leader in early hypertension treatment and research who founded UT Southwestern’s hypertension program in the early 1960s, has been named Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine.

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.

At three employee town halls held on campus earlier this fall, Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky, President of UT Southwestern, discussed growth plans and significant achievements of the past year – emphasizing that they all reflected the hard work and dedication of faculty, staff, and students to UT Southwestern’s mission of promoting health and a healthy society.

UT Southwestern metabolism faculty, their students, and their other lab members have made many key scientific discoveries.

Dr. Joan S. Reisch has a saying: “I was born in Connecticut, grew up in Ohio, and moved to Texas … where I live happily ever after.” With a career spanning 60 years, she is currently a UT Southwestern Professor of Population and Data Sciences and Family and Community Medicine and a generous donor for prostate cancer research, in honor of her late husband.

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