Katie Mason, an administrative assistant II in the College of Nursing, is excited about taking her 3- and 4-year-old children to the UT Health Sciences Starry Nights Community Night at Shelby Farms Park next month. “I like that it is family oriented, so we can take our kids,” she said. “It makes it more of… Read More
Ten years ago, Dr. Doug Dixon, encountered a patient he would never forget. The man had been referred to Dixon, associate dean of Bioscience Research and professor in the University of Tennessee Health Sciences College of Dentistry, for periodontal disease treatment, but what he discovered was far more serious. A large mass was in the… Read More
When Paige Johnson, MD, sees a patient, delivers a baby or mentors a resident or medical student at UT Medical, she is putting the mission and vision of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences into action. Dr. Johnson completed her obstetrics and gynecology residency through UT Health Sciences in 2003 and is one of hundreds… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Advisory Board will meet Friday, Nov. 13, at 11 a.m., in the Mooney Library, 875 Monroe Ave., on the Memphis campus. On the agenda: While the meeting will be conducted in person, it will also be available to view online. The webcast link, more information about the UT Health Sciences… Read More
The Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy Center at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, the Memphis area’s only pro-bono pediatric occupational therapy center, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The center, staffed by students under the supervision of licensed occupational therapy practitioners, has served hundreds of families across the Mid-South. This week, the Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy… Read More
In the lab, promising results often lead to more questions than a researcher has the resources to answer. For Mona Kazemi Sabzvar, a doctoral student at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, preliminary findings in her research on blood cancer pointed toward an additional avenue worth exploring. She had ideas for the experiments that could… Read More
A total of 679 first-year students from all six colleges of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences took part in Interprofessional Education (IPE) Day last week. Of those, 602 swapped classroom seats for mixed teams on Doc’s Field, and 77 joined virtually. Future dentists, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, and other health professionals and scientists spent the… Read More
Back in 1939 when Willis C. Campbell, MD, published the first edition of “Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedics,” he included the most current orthopedic surgical practices of the day. Pre-World War II, that meant extensive and aggressive surgical measures, limited medications, lengthy narrative descriptions, and medical illustrations and line drawings. Today, the 15th edition of what has… Read More
