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A college internship at a crisis center helped Dr. Alexandra Pottorff find her true calling in the medical field.

Artificial intelligence can help cancer patients start their radiation therapy sooner – and thereby decrease the odds of the cancer spreading – by instantly translating complex clinical data into an optimal plan of attack.

Dr. Animesh Tandon, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Radiology for UT Southwestern and pediatric cardiologist at Children’s Medical Center Dallas has been developing and refining virtual reality software over the past two years to address complex congenital heart defect cases.

Growing up in a country with limited health care resources shaped Dr. Oludamilola “Dami” Akinmolayemi’s future. It also fueled his drive to take full advantage of the opportunities afforded him in the United States. The Medical School Class of 2020 chose him to receive the Iatros Award, while the Leadership Award is bestowed annually to student officers of the graduating class.

Surgeons at UT Southwestern have developed and analyzed the benefits of a cutting-edge technique that provides patients with facial paralysis the ability to close their eyes. They concluded that the surgery – which is only performed at a handful of institutions around the world, including UTSW – not only allowed patients to blink and voluntarily close their eyes, but also protected them against the progressive damage to the cornea that’s typically seen with facial paralysis.

Idris honored with ACEP Award for Outstanding Contribution in Research

Find training tip sheets, checklists and other resources for HRPP training at UT southwestern.

Dr. Sterling Overstreet has noticed a tremendous change in the Emergency Department in recent years. It’s not the result of COVID-19 – or even because of any physical changes to the ER space. Rather, it reflects a cultural shift at UT Southwestern in which teams of doctors and nurses are working more efficiently, saving more lives.

As you drift into unconsciousness before a surgery, general anesthetic drugs flowing through your blood are putting you to sleep by binding mainly to a protein in the brain called the ɣ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptor.

Dr. Amy Luu started thinking about becoming a physician at age 5.