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
New College of Medicine Interdisciplinary Building Will Change How Students Learn, Collaborate and Prepare to Serve Tennessee Before beginning the design, the project team imagined a student’s day. Where would a medical student gather with classmates? Where would students from different health professions work together? Where could someone study quietly, practice a procedure or step… Read More
Researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences are part of a team working to move a promising antiviral drug one step closer to being tested in humans. The team has received funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to conduct studies needed to prepare the drug candidate called BDGR-354, also known… Read More
Twenty-five years ago, Jianfeng Xiao, MD, PhD, was a postdoctoral researcher in Bonn, Germany, when an unexpected phone call changed the direction of his career. A neurologist at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences in Memphis had read one of Dr. Xiao’s papers and wanted to talk to him about a very unusual rat. “He… Read More
