Third-year dental student Gustavo Morrice spoke of the joy he felt to be able to provide a full set of dentures for a patient recently. “To me, that was really powerful,” he said. “I love what I do.” A Nashville native who has dreamed of being a dentist since fourth grade, Morrice was addressing the… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Tennessee Population Health Consortium is piloting a program aimed at closing the health care gap for rural Tennessee counties. Under the UT Extension Rural Health Hubs initiative, health coaches are being placed in University of Tennessee Extension Offices in Hardin and Decatur counties to bring essential primary and preventive… Read More
Tabitha House, PharmD, worked as a high school science teacher before going back to school to study pharmacy. Through a new fellowship program in the UT Health Science Center College of Pharmacy, she can return to teaching while also caring for patients. Dr. House is one of two recent College of Pharmacy alumni in the… Read More
When Seetharaman Jayaraman, PhD, associate professor in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, learned that his former collaborator and renowned computational biologist, David Baker, PhD, had won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he felt a deep sense of pride. As a structural biologist, Dr. Jayaraman played a key role to… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing is working with Regional One Health to bring nurse midwifery to Lauderdale County – one of many Tennessee counties dubbed a maternity care desert because residents there have no access to obstetric care. The College of Nursing offers a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree… Read More
In the last year, the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has deepened its commitment to fostering healthier communities through person-first pharmacy care. This dedication is illustrated in the Fall 2024 issue of the College of Pharmacy Magazine, highlighting the faculty’s achievements in education and research, the students’ excellence, and… Read More
Four young men who earned their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degrees together in 2017 and their Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degrees together in 2024 have taken their education and ethos into the world to make a difference in communities from Union City, Tennessee, to Dayton, Ohio. Robert M. Kirby, DNP, CRNA, Christian… Read More
Le Bonheur and University of Tennessee Health Science Center physicians Jonathan D. Finder, MD, and Terri Finkel, MD, PhD, were recently named co-principal investigators of a five-year, $3 million National Institutes of Health research project (R01) grant, “Integrative Genomics of Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease.” The multicenter grant uses genetic data from Le Bonheur and UT… Read More
