UTSW History & Facts
Founded in 1943, this institution began as the Southwestern Medical College.
What is UT Southwestern?
Leaders who regularly visit frontline areas to learn directly from staff are conducting this activity.
What is leadership rounding?
This bright color is my favorite.
What is Yellow?
FMLA
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act?
The resource that executives say they never have enough of.
What is time?
This scientific distinction has been awarded to multiple UTSW faculty members.
What is the Nobel Prize?
A leader's ability to recognize and regulate emotions is known as this.
What is emotional intelligence?
These are the names of my three children.
Who are Aiden, Jayden, and Nathan?
PTO
What is Paid Time Off?
The meeting that somehow requires six scheduling emails and three Teams chats.
What is a 30-minute executive meeting?
UTSW's major academic missions are patient care, education, and this third mission.
What is research?
This term describes moving a discussion from problems toward actionable solutions.
What is solution-focused leadership?
Despite all the coffee lovers around me, this is my drink of choice.
What is Water?
KPI
What is a Key Performance Indicator?
This Outlook feature can instantly create panic when it appears unexpectedly on your calendar.
What is a meeting update?
This hospital opened in 2014 and serves as UTSW's flagship academic medical center.
What is William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital?
A culture where team members freely speak up about concerns, errors, and ideas.
What is psychological safety?
When I'm not working, you'll likely find me enjoying this outdoor activity.
What is Four Wheeling?
HIPAA
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
The unofficial sport of executive assistants.
What is calendar Tetris?
This organization partners with UTSW to support trauma and emergency services in Dallas County.
What is Parkland Health?
This phrase means to examine a topic at a high level or from a broader, strategic viewpoint.
What is a "30,000-foot view"?
This woodwind instrument was my instrument of choice.
What is the Flute?
LWBS
What is left without being seen?
The mythical event that every executive assistant strives for but rarely sees.
What is an empty inbox?