The funding supports programming that incorporates diversity, equity and inclusion into the curriculum of the school’s Internal Medicine Residency Program and that emphasizes inter-professional projects and collaboration with community health workers.

UT Health San Antonio’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences will kick off its 50th anniversary year with a convocation ceremony Aug. 19, welcoming its newest cohort of 141 graduate students.

A literature review by UT Health San Antonio researchers suggests that the current system of chemical risk assessment underestimates the levels of pollutants that can cause harmful health effects.

UT Health Hill Country topped the Boerne Star’s Best of the Best list in medical care, physical therapy, dermatology and pharmacy. 

In this KENS 5 Medical Minute, Maria Jose Cervantes Mendez, DDS, MS, explains why tooth decay is one of the most common chronic childhood diseases and how to maintain your child’s dental care routine throughout the year.

UT Health San Antonio researchers are seeking healthy men between the ages of 70 and 95 to study the effects Ramamycin (an FDA-approved medication) has on heart function, heart muscle stiffening and circulation. Qualified participants will receive compensation. 

How do we turn discoveries into lifesaving health care? From fighting disease to making research breakthroughs, we do everything it takes to lead the way to develop new therapies and treatments to care for you. See how we’re changing lives and find a provider.  

San Antonio residents of all ages are welcome to lace up their walking shoes this Saturday and join Richel Avery, MD, of UT Health Physicians, for the Walk with a Doc event that takes place the second Saturday of each month.  

Save the date! UT Health San Antonio’s Center for Mucosal and Microbiome Biology welcomes researchers, health care professionals and students throughout the region to explore the latest discoveries in host-microbiome interactions and oral-gut-brain axis research. To register, learn more about the event or apply for membership, go here.

Jan Patterson, MD, Infectious Diseases, answered questions for this live interview segment.

Jan Patterson, MD, Infectious Diseases, was interviewed for this article.

Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD, professor of rehabilitation medicine, was interviewed and quoted in this piece.

Fred Campbell, MD, Department of Medicine, was interviewed for this story.