The intersection between health care and service to community has always been a defining aspect of Pooja Kumar's life. Today, as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, Pooja is working with the Patient Navigator Program (PNP) at UT Southwestern to provide homeless individuals with resources and support.

As an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, Ruchika Mahapatra aims to remove barriers to health education. She is designing a curriculum at UT Southwestern's Paul Quinn College that provides health education workshops and individualized coaching on health care navigation, enhancing services provided by the school's clinic.

Congratulations to this year’s “DocStars” – Proshad Efune, M.D., Robin Higashi, Ph.D., and Dominic Moon, M.D. – who all show great promise for medical innovation. Each investigator received a DocStar grant from The Cary Council, which has been providing crucial funding to advance the early-stage research of UT Southwestern young investigators since its founding in […]

Graduate student Akansha Shah has received the 2022 Ida M. Green Award in recognition of her pediatric tumor research and leadership achievements.

Community leaders, builders and innovators support new Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health at UT Southwestern.

Dr. Richard Mays Smith was a beloved internal medicine practitioner who was revered by many and took great joy in his role as an educator in academic medicine. In 1975, his family created the Richard Mays Smith Award in Internal Medicine, which has been given annually by Southwestern Medical Foundation to one or more graduating medical students at UT Southwestern Medical Center.