Newsmakers
Cheng serving UT System as faculty Chair Elect
Dr. Jonathan Cheng, Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery, has been appointed Chair Elect of the UT System Faculty Advisory Council Executive Committee. The UT System Faculty Advisory Council (UTSFAC or FAC) is an advisory group selected from faculty of UT System institutions. The FAC works with and on behalf of the UT System, with a primary mission of communicating ideas and information between faculty and UT System Executive Officers and Board of Regents.
Dr. Cheng joined UT Southwestern in 2008 and currently leads the Plastic Surgery Department’s nerve biology laboratory. He earned his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 2000. Dr. Cheng specializes in plastic surgery, with subspecialty expertise in hand surgery, peripheral nerve reconstruction, and microvascular surgery. Dr. Cheng is one of the few doctors in the country trained to perform migraine surgery. He also is a contributing member of UT Southwestern’s hand transplant team.
Dr. Cheng’s research includes a tissue engineering and nerve regeneration project that is developing new strategies for reconstructing injured nerves. His nerve-machine interface project is part of a Defense Department program to advance the science, which allows injured service members to control robotic arms.
VP Hill honored as Distinguished Alumna by Hockaday School
Angelica Marin Hill, Vice President for Government Affairs and Policy, has been named 2016 Distinguished Alumna of the Hockaday School, a distinguished preparatory school in Dallas.
Created in 2010, the award recognizes alumni who “have had a transformative effect on their community, professions and family,” and have “come into their own in the 21st century.”
Ms. Hill follows previous recipients; Katherine Bliss, Amanda Ginsburg, Katherine Baxter Sidamon-Eristoff, Nicole Ginsburg Small and Blair Johnson Wylie.
She graduated from Hockaday in 1993, with honors from Harvard College in 1997, and earned an M.B.A. from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business at Dallas/Fort Worth in 2008. Ms. Hill joined UT Southwestern in 2004. She continues to be involved in the Alumnae Board of Visitors at Hockaday, and the Dallas Women’s Foundation.
“I’m deeply humbled and honored by this recognition,” said Ms. Hill. “Hockaday has a long tradition of teaching women to be creative, resourceful, and committed to their communities. I was fortunate to be a recipient of that education, and I can only hope to begin to repay that legacy to future generations.”
