UTHSC News


Embodying the Volunteer Spirit in Tennessee’s Poorest Zip Code

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Attorney Dell Steiner poses with her arm around Sharon Valente, PhD, who's in a Memphis Redbirds jersey, at a mobile food pantry in the parking lot.

By 7 a.m. on the fourth Saturday of each month, the parking lot across from St. Patrick Catholic Church is already moving. Volunteers line up pallets, a DJ sets up speakers and cars begin turning onto Martin Luther King Avenue before the food boxes are done being packed. Eugene Mangiante, MD, has been part of… Read More


UT Health Sciences’ BSN Program Ranked No. 1 in Tennessee

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A nursing instructor working with a BSN student in the simulation lab

For the second year in a row, the Bachelor of Science of Nursing (BSN) program at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences is the most highly ranked program in Tennessee, according to the U.S. News and World Report’s 2027 Best Colleges listing. The BSN ranks 26th among public undergraduate nursing programs in the U.S. and… Read More


Behind Tennessee’s Emergency Teams

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Dr. Auston Phillips draws medicine from a vial into a syringe.

UT Health Sciences Pharmacists Save Lives When Every Second Counts Seconds can mean the difference between life and death in the emergency room. As the trauma bay erupts into motion, emergency medical services (EMS) rushes through the doors, nurses scramble to assist, and physicians rapidly assess a patient who may be unconscious, unstable, or unidentified.… Read More


Sickle Cell Boot Camp, Outreach Efforts Educate Hundreds of Frontline Providers

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Sickle Cell Boot Camp participants and organizers pose for a group photo in front of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences stone arches on campus in Memphis.

Dr. Sara Day developed a passion for the care of patients with sickle cell disease when she was a young nurse at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She has transformed that passion into education, garnering nearly $900,000 in grant funding over the last five years to teach other nurses how to care for sickle cell… Read More


2026 UT Foundation President’s Award Honors UT Health Sciences’ Kelly Davis

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University Advancement team members pose with Kelly Davis beneath a presentation screen, the slide indicating his foundation President's Award. Some of the employees are holding headshots of Davis.

Kelly Davis, executive director of development for the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, is one of six University of Tennessee Foundation, Inc. (UTFI) employees honored with a 2026 UT Foundation President’s Award. Davis received the award during a presentation at UT Health Sciences’ Memphis campus on Tuesday. The award recognizes… Read More


The Kind You Don’t Forget

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Dr. Stacey Lane Evans and her parents pose at the top of a cliff overseeing a body of water.

When Dee and Jamie Evans talk about their daughter, Stacey Lane Evans, MD, they don’t begin with personal accolades or professional titles. They start with the constants of who Stacey was as a person and as a physician. Quietly principled. Deeply empathetic. Unwaveringly kind. The words are delivered, cloaked in the love and pride they… Read More


‘Blessing’ Tennesseans with Better Oral Health

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Dental student Gustavo Morrice working with a patient.

Back in 2012, Union City businessman William “Bill” Latimer had an idea that has helped thousands of Tennesseans smile. “Everyone has medical care in the U.S., because they can always go to an emergency room,” he said. “But you don’t have an emergency place for dental care. I knew a lot of people don’t have… Read More


UT Health Sciences Lands First K12 Training Grant to Build Pipeline for Cancer Researchers

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Photo of a researcher in a cancer lab.

The National Cancer Institute has awarded the University of Tennessee Health Sciences a $2.65 million K12 grant to launch a Career Development Program in Clinical Oncology, a five-year initiative that will train early-career physicians to become independent clinical cancer researchers. It is the first K12 training grant ever awarded to a UT System institution, built… Read More