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Drs. Favela and Argo, who met at UT Southwestern, were hoping to match to the same place. Medical students who go through the match process with their significant other have the option to link their match lists in the National Resident Matching Program. The couple, who became engaged in October, were among seven medical interns from across the U.S. selected for the University of Wisconsin’s general surgery residency program on Match Day a year ago.

Dr. Roberts learned how to tackle patient care improvement projects as a medical student at UT Southwestern through the M.D. with Distinction in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (MDD) program. It’s one of five Distinction tracks available for medical students to earn with their degree at UTSW.

Erica, who was a star basketball player at the university and named Conference USA Player of the Year twice, had been accepted at eight medical schools. UT Southwestern was one of her top choices – not only because of its strong academic reputation, but because the admissions committee made her feel like her background as a student athlete was an asset, she said.

After more than 50 years, the enduring impact of a little-known Vietnam-era program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that jumpstarted the careers of four Nobel Prize-winning scientists, including UT Southwestern’s Drs. Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein, is being revealed in a book.

When Dr. Daniela Nicastro was recruited to UT Southwestern in 2015 to build a state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy (EM) facility, she was charged with designing climate-controlled, low-vibration EM suites, purchasing instruments, training staff, and securing additional funding. UTSW’s cryo-EM facility opened in 2016, giving researchers access to instruments that can record images of proteins, macromolecular complexes, and cells with up to atomic resolution. To meet campus demand, the facility started to expand last year.

Ralph DeBerardinis, M.D., Ph.D., a professor at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI), has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

U.S. counties with higher percentages of smokers and violent crime and lower rates of high school graduates are associated with higher mortality rates from cardiovascular disease, according to new public health findings from UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiologists and data scientists.

Mujeeb Basit, M.D. and his team turned out meaningful reports on COVID-19 that included percent positivity of those tested, the evolution of cases and hospitalizations, vaccination rates, and mask-wearing. Mobility reports included details down to retail shopping, grocery shopping, and people’s visits to the workplace and public parks.

Caroline de Gracia Lux, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology, has been awarded the 2021 Haberecht Wildhare-Idea Research Grant for investigating a potential game-changing strategy to improve the outcomes of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, a type of lung damage that can be caused by COVID-19.

UT Southwestern has expanded its Movement Disorders Clinic in the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute