2017 Article Archive
Panelists discuss health care diversity issues at regional summit
“Who’s going to sit in your seat?” Susan Hernandez, UT Southwestern Chief Nurse Executive, asked the audience at the 2017 Greater Dallas Healthcare Diversity Summit.
New Dedman Family Scholars in Clinical Care Named
Both of UT Southwestern’s 2017 Dedman Family Scholars in Clinical Care knew they wanted to be doctors from an early age – one inspired by her grandmother, the other by a high school internship.
First atomic structure from UTSW’s cryo-EM facility
UT Southwestern researchers today published a 3-D atomic structure of the ion channel found in mammals that is implicated in a rare, inherited neurodegenerative disease in humans.
2017 Faculty Promotions
2017 Faculty Promotions for UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
UTSW/THR study investigates fitness of obese children
A study underway at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine investigates respiratory effects of childhood obesity, including those who may be misdiagnosed with asthma
Surgical oncologist Mansour selected for Watson Award
Dr. John Mansour has been selected to receive the 2017 Patricia and William L. Watson Jr., M.D. Award for Excellence in Clinical Medicine.
Jones quintuplets turn 5 years old
A rare event took place at UT Southwestern in August 2012 – the birth of quintuplets. A specially trained multidisciplinary delivery team of more than 50 UTSW specialists, nurses, technicians, and therapists managed the successful births, delivered in less than five minutes.
UTSW, Dallas Arboretum partner to launch ‘A Tasteful Place’
UT Southwestern Medical Center is partnering with the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden to celebrate the opening of its new edible display garden, 'A Tasteful Place'.
Could ‘gut reactions’ make us fat?
Fall President’s Lecture explored this topic
Could the gut’s bacteria – known to affect sickness and health – also make us fat? Dr. Lora Hooper, Chair of Immunology, addressed this question at the fall President’s Lecture Series presentation.
CRI study challenges long-standing concept in cancer metabolism
Scientists at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that lactate provides a fuel for growing tumors, challenging a nearly century-old observation known as the Warburg effect.