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UT HEALTH
SAN ANTONIO

UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO’S NEW RECRUITMENTS

BOLSTER CITY’S GROWING BIOSCIENCES STATURE

By William L. Henrich, MD, MACP

The marketplace for top-flight bioscience clinician investigators tor of nine active National Institutes of Health grants, Dr. Se-
is intense and competitive. If you want the best, you offer a package shadri is a superstar in the understanding of dementias. She will
to attract the best, and that includes the support of a model city like be the founding director of the Glenn Biggs Institute for
San Antonio. Alzheimer’s & Neurodegenerative Diseases, which will collabo-
Four physician scientists newly recruited to The University of rate closely with our Sam & Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity
Texas Health Science Center (UT Health San Antonio™) are indi- & Aging Studies.
viduals of the highest stature in their fields. These nationally recog-
nized experts are innovative leaders in cancer, Alzheimer’s disease • Robert Hromas, M.D., FACP, a prominent physician-scientist
and kidney disease, and their presence will certainly enhance San and expert in blood cancers, who we announced on Oct. 31 as
Antonio’s reputation as a major center of health care and the bio- the new dean of the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of
sciences. Medicine at UT Health San Antonio. An effective leader with
developed expertise in business who assisted two institutions in
I’m extremely proud to report the appointments of: becoming National Cancer Institute Cancer Centers, Dr. Hromas
is joining UT Health San Antonio in February 2018 from Uni-
• Ruben Mesa, M.D., FACP, a superb clinician and investigator versity of Florida Health.
in the field of bone marrow cancers, who joined us in August
from the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center in Greater Phoenix. He is These outstanding individuals will contribute new energy to the
the new director of the UT Health Cancer Center and will lead region’s bioscience space, including expansion of clinical trials to
us in our developing affiliation with The University of Texas provide more treatment options for patients and enhance UT
MD Anderson Cancer Center. Health San Antonio’s role as one of Texas’ preeminent leaders in
health education, research and care.
• Kumar Sharma, M.D., FAHA, a distinguished kidney disease Each brings sterling credentials and teams of skilled collaborators
specialist with expertise in diabetic kidney disease, who joined to our city. Each chose San Antonio over offers elsewhere. What
us in August from the University of California, San Diego. Dr. brought them? In the end, they sensed the spirit of optimism and
Sharma leads National Institutes of Health-funded studies of collaboration that defines our city. I am incredibly proud of these
renal disease and will establish a Center for Renal Precision Med- highly competitive recruitments and the national searches that iden-
icine at UT Health San Antonio. tified these great leaders.

• Sudha Seshadri, M.D., FAAN, FANA, an eminent clinician, William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP, is president of The University of
researcher and educator in the field of Alzheimer’s disease, who Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, now called UT Health San
joins us Dec. 1 from Boston University. The principal investiga- Antonio.

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