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  • Our People
| May 15, 2024

Faculty highlight: Dr. Jehad Alzyoud

Dr. Alzyoud is an assistant professor within The University of Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s Department of Physical Therapy. He teaches the neurological rehabilitation course series. “My research is focused on understanding human balance, particularly how sitting balance impairment...

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  • Our People
| May 15, 2024

Personalized Health and Well-Being graduate pivots to altruistic career path

Karen Smith was walking around the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s annual conference in 2022 in Orlando, Florida, when she came across The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s booth. Smith, a registered dietician for almost...

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  • Our People
| May 15, 2024

SPH faculty member Dr. Kayla Fair begins exciting new public health journey

Dr. Kayla Fair, assistant professor of population and community health at The University of North Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, is embarking on a new and exciting journey with the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health...

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  • Education
| May 14, 2024

Four students represent HSC at national IPE competition

Last month, four students from The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth headed to Minnesota to represent HSC at the CLARION National Interprofessional Case Competition. CLARION is a student-driven, staff/faculty-advised committee that focuses on the professional...

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  • Our People
| May 13, 2024

TCOM’s Owen Saenz selected for the prestigious ElevateMeD scholarship program

Paying it forward, sacrificing and serving has been at the core of who and what Owen Saenz is, now, it’s paying him back. The rising fourth-year student at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at The University of North Texas...

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  • Our People
| May 13, 2024

Physical Therapy professor works at the forefront of interdisciplinary training

As interprofessional education or IPE, has become more widespread among health care disciplines, one professor in The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth’s Department of Physical Therapy once again finds herself at the forefront. Dr. Myles...

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  • Our People
| May 13, 2024

PA graduate who helped save a police officer’s life still serves

Brandi Kamper didn’t give it a second thought when she heard on her radio that a fellow officer had been shot. In 2016, the former Army combat medic was a tactical medic for...

Madelyn & Kellan
  • Community
| May 13, 2024

Physical therapy students to wed after commencement

While post-commencement life can be uncertain for many graduating college students, Madelyn Di Orio and Kellan Barry made big plans before this school year ever began. The third-year physical therapy students in The University of North Texas Health Science Center’s...

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  • Our People
| May 9, 2024

Physician assistant faculty gives back to PA education

In most cases, when clinicians make the jump to academia, they have to figure out how to teach. They’re faced with taking a leap and inventing their wings along the way. For PAs, the Physician Assistant Education Association fills that...

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  • Our People
| May 9, 2024

From humble beginnings to great endings, how this TCOM graduate defied all odds

Lamont, California, a simple location referred to only as a census-designated place in Kern County in the south-central portion of the state, is where Diana Garcia Garcia grew up with her family, watching them work each day in the lush...