Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics

12/17/2025

Celebrating our San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic (SARHC) student coordinators as they wrap up a year of service, leadership, and commitment to our refugee community. Grateful for all the work they’ve done this past year!

12/10/2025

Here is an article by our faculty members Dr. Melanie Stone and Dr. Jason Rosenfeld 'Putting Precision Public Health Into Action'. Dr. Stone and Rosenfeld write about how we can apply the concepts of precision medicine that take into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person and use it in a public health setting to improve the health of populations. https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/fulltext/2026/01000/putting_precision_public_health_into_action.4.aspx

12/09/2025

Dr. Rachel Pearson, is giving a virtual talk for the Methodist Bioethics Lecture Series on Breaking Bad News in Pediatrics. The event will cover basic evidence-based techniques for breaking bad news, developmental understandings of death by age, and specific responses for emotional situations that emerge in pediatric care.

Register: https://hcaconnect.webex.com/hcaconnect/j.php?MTID=m7c808d02658ccee26a0c6c6f1ff6fb60

12/09/2025

Health Confianza is hosting a free Sensory Wellness Tools Workshop this weekend to support healthcare professionals in creating more inclusive, responsive, and effective care environments.

If you want to learn more about understanding how sensory processing affects patients, community members, and providers, and recognize signs of sensory overload and stress, this course is for you.

Register: https://forms.gle/4j5bxwttWcZgasCa6

12/08/2025

Dr Fazlur Rahman from our Advisory Council is featured in this month's Texas Medicine, the Texas Medical Association Journal, for his long-standing medical presence and empathy with his rural patients.

Fazlur Rahman, MD, made San Angelo his home more than a half-century ago. Over that time, he’s made it his mission to stress how bedside compassion is just as important as science in caring for patients.

12/08/2025

Calling on all students, faculty, staff, and community artists. Virtual auditions are now open for those who want to perform at the annual student-run Night of the Arts event. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwUK-RG8V6YcESmjQruE6s_HX69DDFfF3JM1-aSX9Gsy8FvA/viewform

12/04/2025

OnCorps is a wonderful arts initiative for Veterans led by our colleagues in the UTSA School of Music and UTSA Arts. Please support their event this week.

12/03/2025

The inaugural performance of the baby grand by MS1 Isabella Truong last night in the Holly auditorium foyer at the Annual Research Day reception.

11/21/2025

Here is an article by our faculty member Dr. Rachel Pearson 'Why We Know So Little About Medicines During Pregnancy. Dr. Pearson writes about how we could ethically include pregnant women in research studies, and the anxiety women face in making decisions about the medicine they should take without clear guidelines

Trump’s attacks on Tylenol come after decades in which many women were excluded from medical studies, which has created uncertainty about which drugs are safe.

11/20/2025

Dr. Melanie Stone and Jacqueline Tovar attended the 2025 Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science Community Engagement Symposium on Deep Roots, Resilient Voices, and Collective Action through Community-Academic Partnerships in Health Research on Saturday, Nov 8th. They showcased their research poster “Analysis of a Grant Model for Service-Learning Community Engagement”.

11/06/2025

Join us for the 2025 Conversations About Ethics, presented and facilitated by Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN. Learn transformative strategies for individuals and systems to deal with moral suffering and build moral resilience. CME, CNE, and CEU available.

This free event is open to all. Register now: https://www.texashumanities.org/lecture/

10/27/2025

Connective Tissue, UT Health San Antonio’s annual literary and arts journal, is accepting submissions for the 2026 issue of the journal!

Connective Tissue is a publication of the Cheever Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics and is open to submissions from all students, faculty, staff, residents, and alumni from UT Health San Antonio. The journal publishes high-quality original works of prose, poetry, 55-word stories, photography, and visual art. This year, we are also including original music works as a brand-new category!

We are excited to announce this year’s theme for Connective Tissue, “Metamorphosis.” This theme explores the profound transformation central to health, healing, and our work. For trainees, this journey is more than acquiring knowledge; it is a metamorphosis of identity, perspective, and responsibility—the process of becoming a healer. But transformation touches us all: our patients, colleagues, and selves. It happens in illness and healing, at birth and loss, at the bedside, and in the operating room.

For this edition, we invite you to explore these moments of transformation—the profound, the subtle, the challenging, and the triumphant. What does it mean to be remade? What is gained, and what is left behind? We welcome and encourage all submissions, regardless of whether they are directly related to the theme.

Please submit to our Connective Tissue Submission Google Form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQz-q6GBMnOEeROyGrECAf1d94ttFBDbIIDD7YsXf0OvnDUw/viewform by Sunday, January 11th, 2026 at 11:59PM CT.