UT Health San Antonio is the official sports medicine provider for the San Antonio Brahmas! Our all-star sports medicine team will provide care for the pro football athletes during home games. Discounted home game tickets are available for students, faculty and employees. Purchase tickets here and enter the promo code: 2023PARTNER

UT Health San Antonio is proud to highlight a cadre of Black/African American exemplars that you should get to know. You're also encouraged to engage in any upcoming events, lectures, tours, family activities and more to celebrate Black History Month.

Everyone experiences stress, but your ability to recognize and manage it is key to fending off chronic stress and its related symptoms. Learn ways you can manage your stress, like taking time for yourself each day and countering your stress with some simple strategies.

To support you on this journey, February’s mental health and well-being focus is on self-care and self-compassion. Find more information on My UT Health.

Two health care leaders have been appointed to executive roles for the UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital, set to open in 2024!

Virginia Kaklamani, MD explains how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of Elacestrant, a treatment for postmenopausal women and adult men with ER+/HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer, will impact cancer treatment and the role Mays Cancer Center played in the EMERALD trial that led to the novel drug therapy approval.

Congratulations to our 2023 Presidential Award recipients! These employees have exemplified UT Health San Antonio's mission and core values. It is our honor to recognize their good work. 

We asked what "patient experience" means to you, and every essay gave incredible inspiration and insight about how you care for your patients.

A big congratulations to Jessica Wickline who won 1st place!

Amanda Shell's essay won 2nd place, and Julliandra Bryan's won 3rd place.

Read Jessica's 1st place essay today, and come back to UT Health Connect to stay inspired by essays from more of your coworkers.

UT Health San Antonio will receive $4 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. Patricia Chalela, DrPH, an investigator with the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) will receive $1,992,330 of the funding to support a five-year study of Quitxt, the IHPR’s culturally appropriate mobile smoking cessation program.

We are listening and working diligently to ease the transition for our parking relocations during construction.

Parking Tickets & Warnings
Parking enforcement officers on the Greehey campus have been instructed to only write warnings through Friday, February 17. If a citation was written by mistake, it can be reduced to a warning if the employee appeals and notes they were unaware of where to park.

Shuttle Service and Safe Walk
Download the UT Health SAfe app. On it you will be able to access valuable resources including:
-The shuttle bus tracker
- Request a shuttle or call for a shuttle
- Safe Walk to request a UTPD escort while you walk
- Virtual Walk Home which alerts UTPD to where you are and where you are heading 

If you have any questions or concerns please contact UT Health Parking Services at parking@uthscsa.edu or speak with your manager.

Clinical trials can provide volunteers potentially life-saving treatments, but myths often prevent Latinos from enrolling. Join us March 9 for a Webinar to discover how we can tune out the noise and overcome cultural barriers to clinical trials.

Make sure you are familiar with our public and media relations policies. When a practice or provider is contacted by the media for coverage on a topic, please be sure to follow our best practices.

COVID-19 testing is now offered once a day at 4:30pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays inside the Wellness 360 employee and student health clinic, except on UT Health San Antonio holidays. Testing will no longer be offered in the School of Nursing parking lot. Results will be available in MyChart the following business day after 12pm.

The deadline is approaching for completing required yearly training in UT Health Learns. Training must be completed by Feb. 28. View these job aids to assist navigating the UT Health Learns interface. Email utlearns@uthscsa.edu with questions.

No one ever wants to see or experience an on-the-job injury, but there are specific steps that are required if an injury occurs. Learn these important steps. 

March 9

Webinar: Busting the myths and cultural barriers to clinical trials

March 27 - 28

Texas Substance Use Symposium

April 1

Give Cancer the Boot: Survivorship 5K Run/1 Mile Walk

April 27-29

Cardio Renal Connections Conference

April 30 - May 1

Practical Applications of New Agents in Oncology

May 5

High Risk Pregnancy & Heart Disease Conference

May 6
Women's Health Conference