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Dr. Benjamin Levine’s career reads like an adventure novel. Known around the world among sports cardiologists – consultant to the NCAA, the NFL, and the U.S. Olympic Committee & Paralympic Committee – he also works with NASA to solve medical problems related to spaceflight.

Growing up in a big family, Dr. Oliver Taylor saw firsthand how illness affects not just an individual but a whole family.

This year, two UT Southwestern nurses were named Dallas-Fort Worth Great 100 Nurses. Joining this year’s Great 100 are Shelley Brown-Cleere, M.S.N., RN, Nurse Director of Neurosciences Services, and Byron Carlisle, B.S.N., RN, CCRN-K, SCRN, Nurse Manager of the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit.

Dr. Kenneth J. Leveno, a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UT Southwestern whose leadership helped transform the obstetrical service at Parkland Memorial Hospital into a preeminent model of clinical care and educational opportunity, died May 2. He was 78.

Hak Choy, M.D., former Chair of Radiation Oncology and an internationally recognized expert in his field who has dedicated his career to improving cancer survival rates, has been appointed Professor Emeritus.

I have wanted to be a child neurologist for almost a decade now, so I am deeply honored to be recognized for my passion for caring for patients with neurological conditions.

The struggles and sacrifices that Dr. Anthony Han’s parents made as immigrants to the U.S. so that he could have a good education imprinted on him the desire to help others. This led to his interest in becoming a physician, and emergency medicine in particular.

For Dr. Sarah Greenfield, the choice to pursue medicine came from a passion to serve. She is grateful for early work and volunteer experiences – tutoring and mentoring children living in government-assisted housing, serving weekly meals to the homeless, and working at a camp for childhood burn survivors – for igniting the curiosity and empathy that eventually led her to medicine.

UT Southwestern's history from the year 2008 until today.

UT Southwestern’s 2021 class of Endowed Scholars in Medical Science includes scientists searching for: a way to harness the central nervous system to control pain, to degrade pathological proteins found in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and to better understand the long-running battle between bacteria and the viruses that infect them.