Faculty Group Practice Newsletter

April has been designated Oral, Head, and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, bringing attention to the symptoms and risk factors of these diseases – and the fact that diagnoses are on the rise. More than 54,000 new cases are expected in 2023.

On Sunday, April 2, UTMB Health participated in IRONMAN 70.3 Texas as the official medical provider for the prestigious competition.

Congratulations to Justin Yun, MS2 in John Sealy School of Medicine.

UTMB Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery's "Jaw in a Day" reconstruction procedure was recently featured in Community Impact.

We celebrated the contributions of our physicians on National Doctors' Day, March 30!

This month we will focus on coding for laterality for diagnosis coding as this has been identified as a significant opportunity and is a key element of the coding and the reimbursement process.

Congratulations to Dr. Arsalan Saleem, the Academy of Master Clinicians' April Clinician of the Month.

This month, we are pleased to recognize Cheryl Breaux, AGACNP, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.

When a patient presents with an infection, antibiotics in the penicillin family are often the best option for clinical efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and safety. An effort currently under way at health care institutions nationwide, including UTMB, is helping ensure more patients can utilize this first-line agent when needed.