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2025 Quality Outcomes Report
The Department of Neurological Surgery at UT Southwestern is proud to share its 2025 Quality Outcomes Report. This report highlights how substantial improvements in discharge processes, evidence-based protocols, and care coordination have led to enhanced patient experience, improved outcomes, increased discharge efficiencies, and significantly reduced mortality rates.
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Oncology rehab: Setting a new standard for cancer care
Patients with cancer are asked to handle a lot of change – rearranging their lives to accommodate appointments, looking and feeling different in their clothes, and trying to keep up with everything when their energy is zapped.
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UTSW certified as a Comprehensive Cardiac Center
Only 24 hospitals nationwide have received the designation from The Joint Commission
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FDA-designated orphan drug could increase radiation efficacy in lung cancer
UTSW researchers find crucial metabolic pathway targeted by drug creates key vulnerability in cancer cells
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A Discussion with Dr. Gebreyohanns: 2025 Ted Burns Humanism in Neurology Award
Dr. Jeff Ratliff talks with Dr. Mehari Gebreyohanns, the recipient of the 2025 Ted Burns Humanism in Neurology Award, about his journey into stroke care, the BORNE initiative, and the challenges faced in global neurology.
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Endoscopic Spine Surgery: The Lowest-Risk Option for Prolonged Back Pain Relief
For patients with back or leg pain, the source can usually be traced to nerve pressure, such as a herniated disc in younger patients or arthritic bone spurs in older populations. Traditionally, this would leave them to choose between undergoing extensive surgery to correct the issue or continuing treatments to mitigate the pain indefinitely. At UT Southwestern, patients now have a much less invasive option in endoscopic spine surgery, an outpatient procedure to fix the underlying issue and relieve pain.
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Lifelong physical activity may slow cognitive decline
UTSW researchers find associations between cardiorespiratory fitness, reduced brain volume loss across adult lifespan
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Tongue squamous cell carcinoma
Tongue squamous cell carcinoma resected with the Intuitive DaVinci® SP Robotic System shows fluorescence from IV-injected Pegsitacianine, a pH-sensitive nanoparticle that selectively labels cancer. The built-in Firefly near-infrared imaging confirms compatibility with the robotic system and enables clear tumor visualization.
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UT Southwestern researchers receive multi-million dollar grant to aid cerebellar disorders research
UTSW team receives funding from Raynor Cerebellum Project to develop treatments for congenital brain disease
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UTSW Research: Mosquito saliva and malaria, brain tumors, and more
Studies look at link between pest’s internal clock and deadly disease, a promising glioblastoma treatment, and Alzheimer’s agitation
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Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects Make Case for Traumatic Brain Injury as a Chronic Condition
As of Jan. 1, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is officially recognizing traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a chronic condition. While this change currently only applies to enrollees in a Medicare Advantage plan (generally for patients over age 65 or those who have a disability lasting more than two years), it’s a large step toward medical institutions treating TBI as a persistent ailment, rather than a temporary injury.
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Social media may heighten depression severity in youth
UTSW study finds many young people with mental health issues report problematic social media habits and more severe symptoms