Top Researchers
Top Medicine Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin for 2026
Research at The University of Texas at Austin spans a wide range of Medicine topics, from surgical care and rehabilitation to epidemiology, health, and pharmacology. Drawing from a large sample of recent works, this snapshot highlights the people shaping that activity and the questions they are asking.
Below, you’ll see a closer look at researchers whose recent publications reflect both clinical practice and population-level inquiry, with attention to patient outcomes, care delivery, and the systems that support them.
Featured Researchers
David Ring
David Ring’s recent work at The University of Texas at Austin centers on surgery, rehabilitation, and epidemiology, with studies on musculoskeletal specialty care, upper extremity nerve palsies, and work injury claims.
Activity over the last year: 24 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- A New Measure of Quantified Social Health Is Associated With Levels of Discomfort, Capability, and Mental and General Health Among Patients Seeking Musculoskeletal Specialty Care (Feb 2025)
- Do Surgeons Treat Their Patients’ Upper Extremity Nerve Palsies as They Would Treat Their Own? (Feb 2025)
- A Debiasing Checklist Has the Potential to Improve Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Outcomes in Claims of Work Injury (Feb 2025)
Namkee G. Choi
Namkee G. Choi’s publications connect health, epidemiology, and pharmacology through research on suicide attempts, substance use disorder treatment, and psychological well-being in older adults with dementia.
Activity over the last year: 14 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Associations of medical outcomes with substances involved in suicide attempt cases age 50 and older reported to U.S. Poison Centers, 2016–2023 (Mar 2025)
- Treatment Use Among U.S. Adults with a Substance Use Disorder: Associations with Symptom Severity, Problem Self-Perception, Comorbid Mental Illness, and Mental Health Treatment (Apr 2025)
- Social Participation and Psychological Well-Being Among Older Adults With Dementia (Aug 2025)
Mario O’Connor
Mario O’Connor’s recent output brings together epidemiology, surgery, and oncology, including multi-institutional work on truncus arteriosus repair, pediatric organ donation disparities, and Marfan syndrome surgery.
Activity over the last year: 16 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- The Fate of the Truncal Valve: Multi-Institutional Insights Into Reintervention After Truncus Arteriosus Repair (May 2025)
- From Referral to Consent: Unveiling Racial Disparities at Critical Stages of Pediatric Organ Donation (May 2025)
- Surgical Intervention in Pediatric Marfan Syndrome: A Multiinstitutional Study (May 2025)
Joel T. Adler
Joel T. Adler focuses on transplantation, public health, environmental and occupational health, and surgery, with recent papers on kidney allocation, waiting-list growth, and organ nonuse.
Activity over the last year: 18 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Association between out-of-sequence allocation and deceased donor kidney nonuse across organ procurement organizations (Feb 2025)
- Supply, Demand, and a Growing US Kidney Transplant Waiting List (Mar 2025)
- Underrecognition of deceased donor kidney out-of-sequence allocation due to increasing use of free-text coding (Apr 2025)
Niels Brinkman
Niels Brinkman’s recent publications span pharmacology, surgery, and epidemiology, addressing quantified social health, hip pain trajectories, and patient receptiveness to mindset exercises.
Activity over the last year: 13 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- A New Measure of Quantified Social Health Is Associated With Levels of Discomfort, Capability, and Mental and General Health Among Patients Seeking Musculoskeletal Specialty Care (Feb 2025)
- Statistical Groupings of Mental Health and Osteoarthritis Severity Correlate With 10-year Trajectories of Levels of Capability and Comfort Among People With Hip Pain: A Nationwide Prospective Cohort Study (CHECK) (Jul 2025)
- Greater Personal Health Agency Is Associated With Greater Patient Receptiveness to Mindset Exercises (Sep 2025)
Yaolin Pei
Yaolin Pei’s work bridges health, sociology and political science, and periodontics, with recent attention to supportive care for young-onset dementia and community engagement in dementia research.
Activity over the last year: 14 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Charles D. Fraser
Charles D. Fraser’s recent studies combine epidemiology, biomedical engineering, and surgery, including outcomes with the Organ Care System, truncal valve reintervention, and Kasai portoenterostomy.
Activity over the last year: 19 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Use of Organ Care System (OCS) in Pediatric Recipients Offer Excellent Outcomes (Apr 2025)
- The Fate of the Truncal Valve: Multi-Institutional Insights Into Reintervention After Truncus Arteriosus Repair (May 2025)
- Outcomes of Kasai Portoenterostomy in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease: A Silent Comorbidity (Mar 2025)
Chanhyun Park
Chanhyun Park’s recent work links cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, family practice, and economics and econometrics through studies of CDK4/6 inhibitor adverse events, readmission risk, and glucagon prescribing.
Activity over the last year: 13 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Cardiovascular Adverse Events and Associated Costs of CDK4/6 Inhibitors in Patients With Breast Cancer (Apr 2025)
- Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Unplanned Readmission Due to Major Adverse Cardiac Events Among Hospitalized Patients with Blood Cancers (Apr 2025)
- Observations of Glucagon-Prescribing Patterns for High-Risk People With Diabetes Within a Federally Qualified Health Center (Oct 2025)
What The University of Texas at Austin's Medicine Community Is Working On
Across this group, surgery and epidemiology appear most often, suggesting a strong community interest in operative outcomes, procedural decision-making, and the measurement of care across patient populations. Health and pharmacology also recur, while rehabilitation adds a patient-centered dimension that connects clinical treatment with recovery and function. Overall, the recent work points to active inquiry into how medical interventions perform in real settings, how risks and disparities can be identified, and how care pathways can be improved for diverse patient groups.- Surgery - seen across 5 of the featured researchers
- Epidemiology - seen across 5 of the featured researchers
- Health - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Pharmacology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Rehabilitation - seen across 1 of the featured researchers
Taken together, these recent publications show a community moving between bedside questions and broader health systems concerns, often with a strong focus on how care can be measured, improved, and made more equitable. If you’re exploring similar work, keep browsing the institution’s research activity—and consider using Resub to help organize citation discovery, formatting, and submission prep for your own projects.
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