UTSW Special Collections Library & Archives

Joel Elmquist, D.V.M., Ph.D. joined UTSW in 2006 and is Director of the Center for Hypothalamic Research and a professor. He is one of our three newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives #FacultyFriday

The Department of Plastic Surgery Collection traces the history of the department on campus. It includes informational documents as well as photographs of residents and various events hosted by the department. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives

This resident was a member of the Department of Family and Community Medicine in 2015, do you recognize him? #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives #WhoAmIWednesday

Our long-term partnership with Parkland Hospital as an educational resource is even visible from the air! On the far right side of this image you can see the Army barracks that were used as school buildings. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives #buildingtuesday

UT Southwestern invites local high school students to campus each year to show them what a potential career in science and medicine would be like. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives #medstudentmonday

Nurses exist on the front-lines of medicine. Back in 1918 the St. Paul Sanitarium nurses provided care to overflow army patients in tents during the Spanish Influenza outbreak in Dallas. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives

Nursing has been a profession for #womeninsciencesaturday for a over a century. These women were the first graduating class & nongraduating students at St. Paul School of Nursing. We hope they went on to use their knowledge to help people. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives

Dr. Emmett J. Conrad was the first full time African American surgeon at St. Paul Hospital and went on to become chief of surgery at the hospital. #FacultyFriday #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives

This week's collection highlight brings us to number 41 in our collection & it's the Department of Molecular Biology. This collection has many highlights from Dr. Eric Olson's time at UTSW, photos of the dept, documents, & some AV material. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives

Can you help us identify this individual? We don't know if she was a nurse, doctor, or student so any information you have will be helpful. #WhoAmIWednesday #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives #NationalNursesWeek

Before dormitories had individual rooms the student nurses would all stay in one room with the two walls lined with beds. This dorm also has a statue of the Virgin Mary in it. #NursesWeek #buildingstuesday #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives

Much like med or grad students, nursing students take time out of their day to chat, catch, up or study together. This group is doing just that in one of the dorms. #NursesWeek #medstudentmonday #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives

Nurses week starts this week and we wanted to start celebrating a bit early with this picture of a nurse playing with a young patient at St. Paul Hospital in the 1950s. #NursesWeek #FromtheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives

Today we are highlighting Kim Orth, Ph.D. in recognition of her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 12th member of UT Southwestern's faculty to be honored with this distinction. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives #womeninsciencesaturday

Ralph DeBerardinis, M.D., Ph.D. joined UT Southwestern's faculty back in 2008 and is now a Director of several programs. He is one of our three newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives #FacultyFriday

The UT Southwestern Gift and Endowment Collection gathers the paper records of the philanthropists and also campus community members who have supported UTSW over the years. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives

Do you recognize this OBGYN doctor whose photo was taken in 2008? We're hoping to add her to our growing list of identified professionals. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives #WhoAmIWednesday

Let's take a look back at St. Paul Hospital when it stood where West Campus is now. Some of the buildings, like POB 1, were originally part of their campus. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives #buildingtuesday

Students at UT Southwestern receive some of the best training, learning hands-on from clinical professors like Beth Brickner, M.D. how to care for their future patients. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives #medstudentmonday

The Stembridge Mace is decorated with seven unique bas-relief cameos acting as symbols of medicine and the school. They are an Aesculapian staff, an interwoven star, the dawn, a pyramid, Texas, a double helix, and a scroll. #FromTheArchives #UniversityArchives #medicalarchives