Publisher: Black News


UTHSC Hosts “LIVE! Just As We Are” Photo Exhibit of African-American Women Breast Cancer Survivors

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Loretta Hill, a five-year survivor of breast cancer, was the guest speaker recently at UTHSC campus reception for the “Live! Just as We Are” exhibition of photos of African-American breast cancer survivors from West Tennessee. Hill, whose portrait is in the exhibition, spoke candidly of coping with the disease …


36 Teenagers in Formal Attire Attend Autumn Ball at UTHSC

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Relative Caregiver Program recently hosted its 2nd Annual Autumn Ball honoring the boys and girls it mentors.


Girls Learn Social Skills at Tea Party at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis

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When the girls enrolled in a mentoring group sponsored by the Shelby County Relative Caregiver Program heard they would be the hostesses at a tea party, they didn’t seem too enthusiastic. But Detris Whitten, who directs the mentoring group at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), was undeterred.


Sisters Establish Diabetes Lectureship at UTHSC in Memory of Their Parents

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The first John Ed and Odessa Williams Endowment in Community Diabetes Lectureship brought diabetes expert James Gavin III, MD, to UTHSC campus as the keynote speaker.


Dr. Marie Chisholm-Burns, Dean of the College of Pharmacy at UTHSC, Wins National Award

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Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MBA, MPH, FCCP, FASHP, dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), is the recipient of the 2013 Literature Award for Sustained Contributions given by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Research and Education Foundation.


Kennard Brown, Executive Vice Chancellor and COO of UTHSC, Honored for Promoting Diversity in Health Care Education

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Kennard Brown, JD, MPA, PhD, FACHE, executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received the Healthcare Education Award from the Nashville-based Council on Workforce Innovation.