University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Karen Smith, an Executive Assistant at UT Southwestern, Was Shot to Death in a School Parking Garage [Updated]

Update at 10:23 a.m.: Police have identified the suspected shooter as 41-year-old Ferdinand Glen Smith, who has been charged with murder. He's being identified in media reports as Karen Smith's husband. Original post: Last night at about 7:45 p.m., five shots rang out at a UT Southwestern parking g ... More >>

Another UT Southwestern Employee Says He Was Fired for Reporting Animal Abuse

Donna Pulkrabek says she was pushed out of her job at UT Southwestern in May after reporting mistreatment of laboratory animals even though, as manager of the school's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), that was her job. According to a lawsuit filed by Pulkrabek, she had raised co ... More >>

Holy Crap That's a Lot of Kids: Woman Delivers Quintuplets at UT Southwestern

It happens, on average, 12 times per year in the United States: some lucky woman gives birth to five children, not spacing them comfortably over the course of several years but getting them out all at once. It happened in the span of five minutes in Dallas on Thursday, when a team of 50 doctors, nu ... More >>

Jack Perkins' ocaTaco Should Open Wednesday

The good people of the UT Southwestern campus are about to be slapped in the mouth with slow-cooked meat. Jack Perkins and part of his Maple and Motor team expect to open his new taco assembly-line concept, ocaTaco, sometime this week. (According to Facebook, it's looking like Wednesday.) And yes, ... More >>

Doc's Whistleblowing Results in Parkland, UT Southwestern Paying $1.4 Million to Feds

Gentilello in a 2005 UT Southwestern photo​Amidst all the other things going on with Parkland at the moment, there remains one other Very Big Thing you've probably forgotten all about: Dr. Larry Gentilello's allegations that trauma residents at the county hospital were treating patients and perfo ... More >>

Wendy Reves's Son and the Fine Art of Trying to Keep the Court From Tossing His DMA Suit

Dallas Museum of ArtPortrait of Mrs. Emery Reves by Graham Sutherland, 1978​When first we noted in March that Wendy Russell Reves's only child, Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr., was suing the Dallas Museum of Art and former UT Southwestern president Kern Wildenthal, it was, for a moment, Big News -- big ... More >>

Dirk Nowitzki Celebrates Birthday The Way All NBA Stars Surely Do: Vintage Wine and a Nobel Laureate

Mike Mezeul​So what do you give the man who -- all the sudden -- has everything? You throw him a surprise birthday party at a discreet wine room and invite 41 guests, including a Nobel Prize winner he's never met. After getting serenaded with "Happy Birthday" by a post-parade American Ai ... More >>

The Dallas Museum of Art, UT Southwestern's Full Responses to Wendy Reves's Son Lawsuit

Dallas Museum of ArtPortrait of Mrs. Emery Reves by Graham Sutherland, 1978​Valeri Williams doesn't want to talk about why her client -- Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr., the only son of Wendy Russell Reves -- filed suit in Dallas federal court Friday, alleging that the Dallas Museum of Art and former UT ... More >>

Wendy Reves's Sole Heir Files Federal Suit to Retrieve Mother's Art Collection (Left to DMA) and Money (Given to UT Southwestern)

Dallas Museum of ArtPortrait of Mrs. Emery Reves by Graham Sutherland, 1978​A federal lawsuit filed in Dallas on Friday has all the makings of a Vanity Fair feature story, down to the famous names who make cameo appearances -- among them, President Franklin Roosevelt, Coco Chanel and Winston Churc ... More >>

Quick -- Hospital or Hotel?

Courtesy UT Southwestern​OK, it's a hospital -- the "new state-of-the-art University Hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas" that the UT System Board of Regents agreed to fund to the tune of $800 million. The 12-story, 424-bed facility will open in 2015 on Harry Hines Boulevard at Re ... More >>

Three Years After UT-Southwestern Doc Filed Whistleblower Suit, Another Major Victory

Dr. Larry Gentilello, seen here in a 2005 UT Southwestern photo ​Three years ago, Dr. Larry Gentilello was chair of the Division of Burn, Trauma and Critical Care at UT Southwestern Medical Center. But, just like that, he was stripped of his position: Gentilello became aware of the fact trauma res ... More >>

SMU Prof Among Those "Deeply Disturbed" by "Political Assaults" on Climate Scientists

​SMU sends word that David Meltzer, the university's anthropology chair, is among the 255 members of the National Academy Science not amused at all with those who've been trying to dismiss climate change as a ... what did D's Trey Garrison call it? Oh, right: "Man-Made Climate Change Hoax." To tha ... More >>

Two Years Later, City Council to Get Peek at Southwestern Medical District Area Plan

​Actually, it's the "Stemmons Corridor-Southwest Medical District Plan," which has been simmering since 2008 as officials from UT Southwestern, Love Field, Crow Holdings, Parkland and so forth worked with area residents to hash out the (transit-oriented) development details. Nothing's final yet -- ... More >>

Whitt's End: 11.13.09

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *OK, so let it be known that my buddy and Ticket founding father Mike Rhyner has been/is calling for a Cowboys' appearance in this year's Super Bowl. This, after 14-plus years as president of the a ... More >>

Veterans Affairs Kills UT Southwestern's Gulf War Syndrome Research Contract

Dr. Robert Haley​A little more than one month after a report by Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General accused epidemiologist and longtime Gulf War Syndrome researcher Robert Haley and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center of wasting millions and failing to live up to ... More >>

In D.C. Today, UT Southwestern's Haley Will, Yet Again, Make Case for Gulf War Syndrome

Dr. Robert Haley​For more than a decade, UT Southwestern epidemiologist Robert Haley has been at odds with naysayers over the existence of Gulf War Syndrome; here, from 1998, is Ann Zimmerman's piece in the Observer about the doc's battle with government officials who insisted that those symptoms ... More >>

Patio Prowl

On Monday, Children's to Document Kidney Transplant 140 Characters at a Time

USA Today directs our attention to the following tweet sent this morning from Children's Medical Center Dallas and UT Southwestern: "Who's an early bird? Transplant Twittering starts Mon. at 6 a.m. central!" Yup. On Monday morning, a 3-year-old named John Gilbreath is set to get a kidney from his fa ... More >>

From UT Southwestern, a Prof Reconciles Science With Religion

Oxford University Press has just published Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic, written by UT Southwestern Medical Center professor of cell biology Frederick Grinnell, pictured here. In the tome, Grinnell writes on his Web site, "I will suggest that s ... More >>

Butler Manor? Is That Where Alfred Pennyworth Lives? Hello? This On?

Well-Blown

Get Gappa on the cheap at Vetro's annual event

Look Sharp: Or , You Ain't Heard the Last About UT Southwestern's List

UT Southwestern VP Serves Local Media Some Whine and "Poppycock"

Says Chronicle of Philanthropy, UT Southwestern's Still Got Some Explaining to Do

You Say Can You C-Section?

Craving Cocaine? Try This Antipsychotic Instead.

Letter to UT Southwestern Medical Center's V.I.P. Members

UT Southwestern's "Profound Regret"

KTVT Scooped During Sweeps?

UT Southwestern Responds to "The List"

Sorry, Rest of Dallas, Your Name is Not on the Guest List

Two Media Releases For the Price of One Blog Entry

Inside Dallas County's "Safety Net"

What's More Annoying: Jessica Simpson or a Mosquito? We Know. Unfair Question.

Jaw-Dropping News from UT-Southwestern

No More War Over Gulf War Syndrome? Yeah, Right.

Apparently, I Need to Find New Hobbies

Now Where Did I Put My Happy Pills?

Skin Infection or Rock-Hard Abs? Hmm.

Cancer Happens (Or: You Could Be Next)

Habla Espa�ol Medico?

Show Me the Path

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Ride'em, Cowboy

Dust off your Stetson and slip on your Wranglers; the Texas Stampede is in town

A Jolt to the System

This small electrical device may be the last hope for the chronically depressed

From Russia, with bugs

Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus

Beggars' banquet

Dallas' matrons of charity find that ostentation is out and value is in when it comes to raising money

With friends like that...

Protesters dog UT Southwestern over canine vivisection

Buzz

Buzz's holiday gift guide; Another way to suck; R.D. explains it all

Supine science

Research subjects push back the frontiers of space by hitting the sack