Robert Mullaney, OTD, DBA, a proven leader, innovator, manager, and mentor in the academic and clinical occupational therapy field, has been tapped to join the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Occupational Therapy (OT) Department. Dr. Mullaney will serve as a professor and the academic fieldwork coordinator for the department beginning Monday, March 30. A more… Read More
A nursing theory that originated at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has made a major impact worldwide, especially in Japan. Followers of this theory traveled from Japan to Memphis recently to visit the Dr. Margaret A. Newman Center for Nursing Theory, established at the UT Health Sciences College of Nursing in 2023. There… Read More
When someone is a cardiothoracic surgeon, has authored publications, held leadership and teaching roles, presented internationally, been listed in “Best Doctors in America,” trail-blazed cancer prevention and treatment, and helped raise a family, you might think that person grew up surrounded by degrees and overflowing with confidence. “Kind of the opposite,” says John Howington, MD,… Read More
Childhood obesity is often framed as a problem of habits, including what children eat, how much they move, and the environments in which they grow up. But researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences began asking a different question: what if some of the risk for obesity is set in motion long before a… Read More
On one of the first sunny days last spring, virologist Colleen Jonsson, PhD, sat outside her office building at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, face up to the sun. “You have to get your sun,” she says to a passerby. The Harriet S. Van Vleet Chair of Excellence in Virology in the Department of… Read More
When rheumatology fellow Dr. Hira Imran meets one of her lupus nephritis patients, she knows the greatest challenge ahead of them will be figuring out which treatment will work best. Physician trainees at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are asking clinical questions in the morning and finding answers by evening that will help… Read More
Aman Bajwa, PhD, professor of Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has been awarded a multi-principal investigator R01 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health. The five-year, $3.7 million award supports a groundbreaking project titled, “Utilizing Resazurin Fluorescence to… Read More
Alicia Youngstrand has been a student in the histotechnology certificate program in the College of Health Professions at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences since January. Her bachelor’s degree is in fish, wildlife, and conservation biology, but she found jobs in the field were scarce and did not pay well. She worked briefly as a… Read More
