Marvin Forland, who helped build San Antonio medical school, dies at 93

Dr. Marvin Forland, a founding faculty member of the UT Health San Antonio medical school, has died at age 93, university officials announced Thursday.

An internist, nephrologist and educator, Forland established what was then the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio — now the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine. He helped shape the school from its earliest years “as a community devoted to forming humane and morally serious healers,” officials with UT Health, the academic health center of UT San Antonio, said in a release.

Forland died Tuesday while in hospice care…

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