• UTRGV’s Linda Nelson one of seven national ‘Nexstar Woman of the Year’ finalists

    Friday, April 15, 2022 — KVEO-TV, a Nexstar Media Inc. television station airing in the Valley on Channel 23, has chosen UTRGV’s Dr. Linda Nelson as its top “Remarkable Woman of the Year 2022.”

• UTRGV medical student headed to Harvard Med

    Tuesday, March 29, 2022 — In honor of National Doctors’ Day 2022 – marked on March 30 this year – a UTRGV School of Medicine fourth-year med student, Adriana Saavedra-Simmons, shared her own journey to becoming a doctor and her plans for giving back to ...

• UT Health RGV's Gomez talks about neurology for Multiple Sclerosis Month

    Monday, March 28, 2022 — March is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month, so to bring awareness to the neuroinflammatory disorder, UT Health RGV neurologist Dr. Francisco Pascual Gomez will discuss MS and efforts to provide services for the Valley and beyond.

• UTRGV announces ION’s Salloum as the Sujata G. Krishnan Endowed Chair in Neuroscience

    Friday, March 25, 2022 — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has announced the appointment of Dr. Ihsan Salloum as the endowed chair in the Institute of Neuroscience benefiting the UTRGV School of Medicine.

• UTRGV fourth-year medical students celebrate Match Day 2022

    Saturday, March 19, 2022 — The UTRGV School of Medicine's Class of 2022 celebrated its annual Match Day on Friday, March 18, with 51 medical students who applied to residency programs across the United States.

• UTRGV’s Jamal one of just 7 women in country heading ENT department

    Thursday, February 03, 2022 — Dr. Nausheen Jamal, chair of the UTRGV School of Medicine’s department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, admits she wasn’t always a leader.

• UTRGV School of Medicine receives grant to meet healthcare needs of border residents

    Tuesday, February 01, 2022 — The UTRGV School of Medicine has been awarded a grant to help meet the healthcare needs of Hispanic communities on the South Texas border.

• UT Health RGV doctors urging awareness, check-ups

    Thursday, January 27, 2022 — Research and data show that early detection of conditions caused by the thyroid gland can be imperative, as those conditions can worsen slowly over time.

• UT Health RGV drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites closed through weekend due to weather

    Thursday, January 20, 2022 — Due to the predicted severe weather, all of UT Health RGV’s COVID drive-thru testing sites will be closed tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 21, through the weekend, and will reopen on Monday as scheduled.

• UT Health RGV’s drive-thru COVID-19 testing site open tomorrow in Brownsville

    Wednesday, January 19, 2022 — The UT Health RGV drive-thru COVID-19 testing site in Brownsville will be open again Thursday, Jan. 20, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the UTRGV Brownsville Campus Parking Lot B4, next to the UTRGV Police Department.

• UT Health RGV expands COVID-19 testing sites to Harlingen and Brownsville

    Monday, January 10, 2022 — UT Health RGV, clinical arm of the UTRGV School of Medicine, will conduct two drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites in Cameron County.

• UT Health RGV expands COVID-19 testing sites, vaccine clinics

    Friday, January 07, 2022 — This Saturday, UT Health RGV, clinical arm of the UTRGV School of Medicine, will host a COVID-19 vaccine pop-up clinic at the men’s basketball game against New Mexico State, from 5-7:30 p.m. at the UTRGV Fieldhouse on the Edinburg Campus.

• UT Health RGV opening COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Edinburg

    Monday, January 03, 2022 — Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 4, UT Health RGV, clinical arm of the UTRGV School of Medicine, will have a drive-thru COVID-19 testing location in Edinburg.

• UTRGV School of Medicine’s free telehealth mental health program expands to nine school districts

    Thursday, December 30, 2021 — For Dr. Alcides Amador, the challenges of accessing mental healthcare in the Rio Grande Valley hit close to home.

• UTRGV’s free prenatal and preventative reproductive care program expands

    Wednesday, December 22, 2021 — Edinburg resident Maluisa Gonzalez has been a patient of UTRGV’s mobile OBGYN project, Healthy Mujeres, for almost a year.

• Still Cautious… but Hopeful

    Friday, December 17, 2021 — The Rio Grande Valley has been through a lot since COVID-19 first hit the area in early March 2020. But today, after administering almost 97,000 vaccines in the last year, the university's frontline workers say they know the pandemic is ...

• UT Health RGV to provide free Health and Wellness Fairs for the public

    Thursday, December 09, 2021 — UT Health RGV’s Area Health Education Centers, known as AHECs, will offer free healthcare screenings to the community from Dec. 9-14, as part of its health and wellness fairs.

• UT Health RGV begins administering COVID-19 vaccines to children ages 5-11

    Friday, November 05, 2021 — Nine-year-old RJ Valdez and his mother, Jennifer, were among the first to arrive at 9:30 a.m. to get his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the UT Health RGV pop-up vaccine site in Brownsville.

• UT Health RGV to offer COVID-19 vaccines to children ages 5-11

    Thursday, November 04, 2021 — UT Health RGV starting Friday, Nov. 5 will offer pediatric Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 through 11.

• Ribbon cutting officially opens UTRGV Institute of Neuroscience in Harlingen

    Tuesday, October 26, 2021 — The UTRGV School of Medicine, together with its clinical arm UT Health RGV, officially opened its Institute of Neuroscience (ION) with a ribbon-cutting event on Tuesday.

• As UTRGV Institute of Neuroscience opens, director Salloum stresses healthcare access for the Valley

    Tuesday, September 21, 2021 — When Dr. Ihsan M. Salloum arrived in the Rio Grande Valley in August 2020, his hope was to contribute to big improvements in healthcare.

• UTRGV students helping bring attention to importance of ‘Be the Match’

    Tuesday, September 14, 2021 — Did you know a blood stem cell transplant from a matched donor can be a cure for blood cancers, sickle cell and other diseases? Not all patients have an equal chance of finding a match, though.

• UTRGV Center for Vector-Borne Disease to host community seminar on prevention, safety

    Friday, September 10, 2021 — UTRGV’s Center for Vector-Borne Disease is taking charge of the wet months that generate an explosion in the mosquito population in the Rio Grande Valley and the diseases they bring, using community outreach and education.

• UTRGV and UT Health Science Center San Antonio selected as NIA Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

    Thursday, September 09, 2021 — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, working in close collaboration, were announced today as a new National Institute on Aging (NIA)-designated Alzheimer’s Disease ...

• UTRGV, City of Pharr celebrate signing agreement on new building for the university’s School of Nursing

    Friday, September 03, 2021 — The UTRGV School of Nursing on Sept. 2 celebrated its expansion during a signing ceremony with the City of Pharr, at the site of the school’s future facility at 2800 N. Cage Boulevard.

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    Friday, August 20, 2021 — As UTRGV prepares for the start of the Fall 2021 semester on Aug. 23, now more than ever the university is encouraging its Vaqueros to get vaccinated.

• UT Health RGV to build Cancer and Surgery Center

    Thursday, August 19, 2021 — UT Health RGV is expanding its healthcare offerings in South Texas with a new Cancer and Surgery Center, with oncology advisory services provided by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — a world leader in cancer care and research.

• UTRGV names School of Nursing Skills Laboratory in recognition of gift from South Texas Health System

    Monday, August 16, 2021 — UTRGV has received a gift from South Texas Health System to name the School of Nursing Skills Laboratory.

• UTRGV White Coat Ceremony launches SOM's Class of 2025

    Saturday, July 24, 2021 — RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – JULY 24, 2021 – The UTRGV School of Medicine welcomed its sixth class of medical students with a White Coat Ceremony on Saturday, July 24, at the UTRGV Performing Arts Complex Auditorium.

• UT Health RGV opens hearing centers in Edinburg and Harlingen

    Tuesday, July 20, 2021 — UT Health RGV has opened its UT Health RGV Hearing Center in two clinical locations, one in Edinburg and another in Harlingen.

• New UTRGV School of Medicine dean meets the Class of 2025

    Tuesday, July 06, 2021 — In his first week as the new dean of the UTRGV School of Medicine, Dr. Michael B. Hocker welcomed the Class of 2025, the newest cohort of medical students on July 2.

• UTRGV School of Medicine receives provisional accreditation status from national accrediting authority

    Tuesday, June 22, 2021 — The UTRGV School of Medicine is one step closer to obtaining full accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the national accrediting authority for the U.S. and Canada

• UTRGV names Dr. Michael B. Hocker new dean of the School of Medicine

    Friday, May 14, 2021 — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley announced Friday the appointment of Dr. Michael B. Hocker as the new dean of the UTRGV School of Medicine.

• UT Health RGV begins vaccinating children age 12-15 against COVID-19

    Wednesday, May 12, 2021 — This evening UT Health RGV began vaccinating children ages 12-15 against COVID-19.

• UTRGV School of Medicine celebrates second class with in-person commencement

    Monday, May 10, 2021 — After four demanding years of classwork, labs, research, hospital rotations, and more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 51 medical students and seven Master of Science in Bioethics students persevered to earn their degrees from the UTRGV ...

• Cherry on Top: Rio Grande City native to celebrate UTRGV School of Medicine graduation on birthday

    Wednesday, May 05, 2021 — Commencement on Saturday, May 8, for the UTRGV School of Medicine Class of 2021 will be special for Adrian David Barrera as he not only celebrates the day he was born, but also the day he graduates to officially become a doctor.

• UTRGV School of Medicine to celebrate Class of 2021 with ceremony in Brownsville

    Wednesday, May 05, 2021 — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine Class of 2021 will mark their graduation day Saturday, May 8, on the Brownsville Campus.

• UTRGV School of Medicine receives AAMC Award to improve healthcare messaging to underserved communities

    Tuesday, April 27, 2021 — A team of UTRGV School of Medicine students, Master of Social Work students, and resident physicians are the recipients of the Association of American Medical Colleges AAMC Nurturing Experiences for Tomorrow’s Community Leaders (NEXT) Award ...

• UT Health RGV to launch V Express Care Clinics at two H-E-B locations in the Valley

    Monday, April 19, 2021 — UT Health RGV will open two clinical sites at H-E-B Plus! locations in Brownsville and Mission.

• UT Health RGV reaches milestone, testing more than 100,000 for COVID-19

    Tuesday, April 13, 2021 — After a year of COVID-19 testing operations, UT Health RGV has administered more than 100,000 COVID-19 tests.

• UTRGV’s Dr. Michael Dobbs publishes book on understudied field of neurotoxicology

    Friday, April 09, 2021 — Dr. Michael Dobbs, chair of the Department of Neurology in the UTRGV School of Medicine and a pioneering neurologist, recently published his fifth book, this one on an understudied field in healthcare – neurotoxicology.

• UTRGV fourth-year medical students celebrate Match Day 2021

    Tuesday, March 23, 2021 — The UTRGV School of Medicine’s Class of 2021 celebrated a memorable Match Day on Friday, with 50 medical students matching to residency programs around the country.

• New UTRGV chair of surgery Albo looks to training next generation of surgeons

    Wednesday, March 03, 2021 — The UTRGV School of Medicine on June 1 welcomes Dr. Daniel Albo, MD, PhD, FACS, as its new chair of surgery.

• UT Health RGV Clinical Lab expands testing services to increase capabilities, decrease wait time for results

    Thursday, February 11, 2021 — The UT Health RGV Clinical Laboratory this month is expanding as a comprehensive diagnostics lab with a range of testing capabilities well beyond COVID-19 samples.

• Alum Brianna Bautista puts lessons learned into action in fight against COVID-19

    Thursday, January 28, 2021 — It takes a certain kind of person to remain calm when disaster strikes, to stave off panic in themselves and in others. Those who work in emergency management surge forward with carefully laid out plans and procedures, ready to serve amidst ...

• UTRGV and Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium partner to address added challenges of the pandemic

    Tuesday, January 26, 2021 — UTRGV and the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) are partnering to help area adolescents address the mental health challenges they may be facing, especially amid the challenges of the pandemic.