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Telemedicine’s Perfect Storm

WEBAccording to the Chartis Group’s Telehealth Adoption Tracker, telehealth visits for all specialties in the state of Texas increased by 50% in just a few weeks (See Figure 2). …

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Rural Risk Factor

WEBrisis. A word that has described rural health care since at least the 1980’s. Defined as a time of intense difficulty, trouble or danger, a crisis in rural health care impacts 3.1 …

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Stacy Hobbs, APRN, PMHNP, BC

WEBHobbs opened her own practice in July; her work is in high demand now that systemic mental health needs are aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic. Anxiety and …

Category: Coronavirus Go Health

9 Most Talked About COVID-19 Topics

WEBMost Talked About. COVID-19 Topics. The one constant about the coronavirus has been the inconsistency of information. Core faculty members in the Graduate School of …

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Future of Health Care Delivery

WEBDesperately seeking medical help, a teenager in active, obstructed labor risked her life to walk 19 miles from her village in Liberia to a clinic in Monrovia. Fortunately, Andrea Weitz, MD, MPH, TTUHSC emergency medicine resident, was there in 2018 to successfully deliver the baby girl. The experience brought home to Weitz the urgency and extent of the …

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Who Is Julia Jones Matthews

WEBDuring his six years in the Army, Chris O’Dell, MPA, MPH, (Biomedical Sciences ’18) participated in several humanitarian missions, often working with people in poverty who …

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Collaboration with Community Bridges Gap in Mental Health Care

WEBSince September 2021, 50 collaborative visits with the mental health clinicians have been conducted — 10% of these visits were considered to be severe or crisis identified — …

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The Gift of Life

WEBThe Gift of Life. The human body is a health care professional’s first patient. Life experiences and disease states leave their mark, presenting opportunities from which …

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Darrin D’Agostino is Not a Chicken Farmer, He’s the New

WEBNeal Hinkle. Monica Kane, MA, assistant provost for finance and administration, Darrin D’Agostino, DO, MPH, MBA, provost and chief academic officer, and Brandt Schnieder, PhD, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences dean. As Darrin D’Agostino completes the paperwork for his physical examination, he decides to have some fun in the

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New Kid on the Block

WEBAnnette Lerma, MPH, (GSBS ’21) started her career as a teacher, but when she landed a part-time job as a nutritionist for WIC, the USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition …

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The Many Views of Ultrasound in Space

WEBThough, when it comes to space it’s more of a 1-million-foot view. In the first step of his research, Thompson needs to validate the utility of ultrasound as a measurement tool …

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Alumna Collaborates to Transform Health Care

WEBAlumna Collaborates to Transform Health Care. As Methodist Mansfield Medical Center’s vice president of nursing and chief nursing officer, Nora Frasier, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, …

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