Dolores Santoyo

Clinical Research Manager
Allergy and Immunology Division, Internal Medicine

First UTSW job: Research Assistant

Best part of my job: I work with an awesome team! We all support each other doing a job we enjoy.

Claim to fame: Parade magazine featured my siblings and I all attending college while my dad supported us on a waiter salary. I described my professional interest to work with families and children with chronic illness because coming from a family of eight, I knew how families worked – what affects one affects the whole family unit. A Quarter Century colleague saw this article and set out to find me to join a newly funded study dealing with pediatric asthma. I began working part time as a Research Assistant. The rest is history.

Hobbies: Anything that involves the outdoors, gardening, bird watching, traveling, going for walks, and practicing yoga. I love spending time with my family, grandsons William and Jacob, my dad who is 91, and my mom who is 86!

Surprising fact: UTSW is the only place I have worked since I graduated from college.

Final note: I am an alumna of the former School of Allied Health (1993), my daughter Jessica Bennett is a Registered Nurse for the float pool at William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, and my grandsons were born at Clements University Hospital.