In the Media Tag: Kennard Brown


How UTHSC uses development and capital projects as a ‘quiet’ recruiting tool

The Memphis Business Journal

Kennard Brown, Ph.D., helmed the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s (UTHSC) master plan, which has resulted in about $400 million in new development. New, high-caliber facilities, he believes, are crucial to luring in top faculty and students. UTHSC isn’t just competing with other schools in the state, even though the bulk of students come… Read More


How UTHSC pulled off its $70 million project on the historic Quadrangle — and what could come next

The Memphis Business Journal

More than a decade ago, Kennard Brown, Ph.D., started taking Tennessee legislators through the Mooney Building at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).Brown, executive vice chancellor and COO of UTHSC, hoped to obtain state funding for renovations, as the facility had been vacant for 30 years. And what better way to score capital,… Read More


Presenting the MBJ Power 100: Memphis’ most influential business leaders of 2021

The Memphis Business Journal

Power — true power — manifests itself in many ways.Power can mean the person at the top, who can unilaterally make decisions. It may mean the influencer behind the scenes, whose input is crucial to the direction a project takes. It might be found in a person who has one decision to make, the consequences… Read More


Starbucks opens in UTHSC food court, 920 Madison

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Another Starbucks has opened in the Medical District, this time in the food court at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 920 Madison. July 20: Memphis Business Journal


Building Memphis finalists and winner: Best New Construction-Large category

The Memphis Business Journal

Building Memphis Awards: Best New Construction Finalists Large, projects over $20M.


UTHSC brings food service in-house with food trucks, franchising

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When students, faculty and staff started voting with their feet, going off campus for lunch, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center began to re-evaluate its food services. Traditionally, the public medical school relied on third-party food and facilities management companies to run its food court and campus dining services. “We had reached a point… Read More


MLK50, Dr. Kennard Brown

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As executive vice chancellor and chief operations officer at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Dr. Kennard Brown believes UT “has a social responsibility to offer everybody an equal opportunity to contribtue to the greater good.”


UTHSC’s Growth Dramatic Under Brown’s Guidance

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“I hear it all the time. People say, ‘The Health Science Center is one of Memphis’ best-kept secrets,” complains Dr. Kennard D. Brown, JD, MPA, PhD, FACHE, Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operations Officer at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. “Well, we don’t want to be the best-kept secret – we want to… Read More