Tallat Mahmood has joined Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc. as a Hospice medical director. In this role, she will work directly with patients and their families receiving hospice services.
Julie Dewey has joined Hospice & Palliative Care as a nurse practitioner who will support the Hospice and the A.I.M. Palliative Care Programs.
Mahmood obtained her medical degree from Aga Khan University Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan. Soon thereafter, she completed an internal medicine residency from West Virginia University and a Hematology/Oncology Fellowship from Tulane University. She has worked for the past 20 years in Michigan. Most recently she has been an assistant professor of medicine at Upstate Medical University.
San Antonio ISD superintendent strikes note of optimism after difficult year
April 8, 2021
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SAISD Superintendent Pedro Martinez, right, answers questions from Richard Perez, president and CEO of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, at last year’s State of the District speech. The coronavirus pandemic arrived less than a month later.Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-News
San Antonio Independent School District is poised to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic better than it has ever been, thanks in part to the record-setting $1.3 billion bond voters approved last year that’s Superintendent Pedro Martinez’s take on it.
Speaking Wednesday evening to a socially-distanced crowd of more than 100 employees, parents and students at Thomas Edison High School, he kicked off a two-week series of town halls, an annual update as the district approaches the end of a school year unlike any other.
A Conversation with Educational Trailblazer Adena Williams Loston
Growing up in the segregated South, Adena Williams Loston and her siblings would take messages for her father’s plumbing business. He was the first Black, self-employed plumber in her hometown and served predominately white clients, never turning down a job but also showing his kids that dignity mattered. “They would say, ‘Send that n r over here because that was his label,” remembers Loston, the president of St. Philip’s College who was named one of the 10 most dominant HBCU leaders of 2021. “We had to write it down and then he would charge people according to the way they talked to his children, always telling them they were getting a special price.” When people were polite and kind, he would sometimes finish the work for free, Loston says. If they called his kids names, they paid more. “He used the same words, ‘I have a special price for you,’ but they had different meaning,” she says. “I
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Irving ISD’s new collegiate academy could save students $50,000 in college costs
South Irving Collegiate will follow a national model that partners with businesses and industries.
Students Dafne Sanchez, left, and Sandra Sanchez, look over their free tablets after receiving them through the Sprint 1Million Project at Dr. Emmett J. Conrad Global Collegiate Academy in Dallas. Irving ISD plans to open a new collegiate academy in 2022.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
Irving ISD plans to open a new collegiate academy that will aim to provide students with relevant work experience in targeted industries.
South Irving Collegiate is scheduled to open in August 2022 with a freshman class of roughly 100 students. The school will add a grade level each year until 2025.