A hands-on, redesigned curriculum helps UT Health Sciences pharmacy students link classroom learning to clinical practice and patient care from day one. “You don’t necessarily think about how intimidating it can be for someone to give themselves an injection until you’re sitting across from someone who’s genuinely nervous about doing it,” said pharmacy student Jonathan… Read More
Jessi Gold, MD, wants to make talking about mental health so ordinary it becomes almost boring. As a psychiatrist, writer and advocate for healthcare worker and student well-being, Dr. Gold has spent her career encouraging people to speak openly about burnout, anxiety, depression and the challenges of caring for others while taking care of themselves.… Read More
New Compliance Director Aims to Train, Protect, Support Campus Community In 2010 shortly after moving to Arizona to work at the University of Arizona, SevaPriya Barrier registered to vote using the application form available on campus. Her registration was rejected for failure to provide proof of citizenship, even though the application did not require it.… 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
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
