Monday, June 7, 2021
Employee Recognition Week: Stories from you
UT Southwestern recognizes long-term employees play an invaluable role in the success and esteem of the institution. During Employee Recognition Week (today through June 11), read the stories of the nurse who met John Travolta while on shift, the woman students dubbed the “Queen of UT Southwestern”, and many more in Center Times Plus.
Walk-up vaccinations available for existing patients
UTSW patients who are on our Dallas campus for a clinic visit, testing, imaging, or other care now have the opportunity to receive a same-day COVID-19 vaccination. The process will largely mirror how we handle flu vaccinations – if a patient is already visiting any of our main campus clinical buildings and they want to be vaccinated, providers can send them to our vaccination site on the ninth floor of West Campus Building 3. The team there will handle the rest. At this time, we are prepared to provide walk-up vaccinations for existing patients whose information is already in our system.
Fancy new phone? You need to reactivate DUO Mobile
If you’re getting a new mobile phone, you must reactivate DUO Mobile for two-factor authentication, even if you keep the same phone number. DUO Mobile is tied to a specific device rather than the phone number.
- Download the DUO Mobile app (Android or iOS) on the new device.
- Log in to Pulse Secure VPN from a browser window:
- Off campus: utswvpn.swmed.edu
- On campus: campusvpninstall.swmed.edu
- Select My Settings & Devices.
- Authenticate to DUO.
- Select Device Options for the replaced device.
- Select Reactivate DUO Mobile and then follow the prompts on the screen.
Contact the ServiceDesk@UTSouthwestern.edu or informationsecurity@utsouthwestern.edu with questions.
The latest COVID-19 numbers and forecasting model
UT Southwestern’s forecasting model shows how COVID-19 is spreading across the Dallas-Fort Worth region based on data as of June 1. Below are total Clements University Hospital (CUH) cases as of this morning. For more information on COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and Texas, visit the online trackers at Johns Hopkins University and the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Upcoming events
- GI Grand Rounds: "Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Screening and Outcomes": June 9, 8 a.m.
- Communicating with Teens and Tweens (Live Q&A): June 9, noon
- Designing Your Best Academic Poster: June 9, noon
- COVID-19 Care and Beyond: Reflections, Research & New Understandings: June 9, 7 p.m.
- Hematologic Malignancies Research Conference: "Some Assembly Required: Modulation of Proteasome Assembly as a Mechanism for Therapies": June 10, 8 a.m.
- Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine Grand Rounds with IDGM Faculty, Dr. Anusha Govind presenting, “Climate Change and Its Impact on Infectious Diseases”: June 10, 8 a.m.
- Advanced EndNote X9 features: June 10, noon
- IR Training Lab: June 11, 8 a.m.
- Internal Medicine Grand Rounds with Leah Cohen, M.D.: "Updates on Treatment in People With Cystic Fibrosis (CF) in the Era of CFTR Modulators": June 11, 8 a.m.
- Isom Lecture Series with Mary-Ellen Taplin, M.D.: "Neoadjuvant Intense Androgen Deprivation Therapy and Prostatectomy for High-Risk Localized Prostate Cancer": June 11, noon
- CORT Guest Lecture with Filip Bednar, M.D., Ph.D., FACS: "Tuning the Pancreatic Cancer Immune Response": June 11, 4 p.m.
For more, see the UTSW Events Calendar.