Sylvia Trent-Adams resigns as president of University of North Texas Health Science Center
Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams is stepping down from her role as president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center.
In a statement, the UNT System Board of Regents said it had accepted Trent-Adams’ resignation “by mutual agreement.” Her resignation is effective Jan. 31.
The news was first reported by the Fort Worth Report.
Trent-Adams is the first Black woman to lead a health science center in Texas. She was confirmed in September 2022 as the seventh president of the institution, which has six colleges, including a medical school.
The UNT system’s board appointed Dr. Kirk Calhoun as interim president of HSC effective Feb. 1.
Trent-Adams’s resignation comes after the institution came under fire for its use of unclaimed bodies in student training and medical research. NBC News reported that more than 830 bodies were used for dissection and study. Other bodies were sold, sometimes limb by limb, to medical research companies and even the U.S. Army, according to the report. HSC suspended its program using unclaimed bodies shortly before the investigation was published.
Before joining UNT HSC, Trent-Adams served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health from January 2019 through August 2020
This story was originally published January 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM.
