Stories from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)
A New York native, Asia Bright, PhD, originally fell in love with Houston’s landscape and southern flair while visiting during her junior year of high school. Still, it was her passion for impacting communities and UTHealth Houston that made her want to stay long term.
As Raven Landry embarks on another rigorous day of dental school, she hears the sound of tiny feet pattering across the floor, a sound she’s heard nearly every morning since starting at UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry.
A chaotic scene unfolded at the Cooley University Life Center courtyard on April 1, but it was all part of an elaborate training exercise designed to prepare students for real-life emergency scenarios.
In 2002, my grandmother, Faye Sims, now 76, experienced a sharp, debilitating pain in her jaw while at a café in Fairfield, Texas. She ended up in the emergency room, and doctors discovered she had multiple sclerosis (MS). The pain she was experiencing in her face was caused by trigeminal neuralgia, sometimes described as the most excruciating pain known to humanity.
