Category: Public Service


Two UT Health Sciences Leaders, Chancellor Buckley and Le Bonheur President, Honored Among Power 100

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Two distinguished leaders from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center were named to the Memphis Business Journal’s (MBJ) Power 100 list for 2026. Trey Eubanks, MD, president of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and a senior faculty physician in the UT Health Sciences College of Medicine, appears on the list. Le Bonheur is UT Health… Read More


College of Dentistry to Host 10th Annual Give Kids A Smile

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Dental students caring for a young patient

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry will host its annual Give Kids A Smile event on Wednesday, Feb. 11, from 8 a.m. to noon at the Delta Dental of Tennessee Building, 875 Union Ave., to provide free dental services to more than 100 students from Freedom Preparatory Academy and Bellevue Middle School. As… Read More


Advisory Board Approves Tuition Change, Shows Appreciation for Partnerships and Excitement for Future

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Dr. Mike Hocker speaking at the Advisory Board meeting.

During its winter meeting Friday, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Advisory Board recommended an increase to tuition, heard an inspirational update on the College of Medicine and the proposed new $350 million College of Medicine Interdisciplinary Building, and recognized another vital hospital partnership for health care workforce development in Tennessee, with a new… Read More


Advisory Board Holds Winter Meeting Feb. 6

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The front of the Mooney Building

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Advisory Board will meet Friday, Feb. 6, at 10:30 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… Read More


From Memphis Training to Nashville Leadership, Dean Advances Tennessee Medicine

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Dr. Brian Wilcox's headshot

After 25 years as a heart surgeon and health care leader, A. Brian Wilcox, Jr., MD, asked himself a question: “How do I give back to what was given to me?” The answer brought him to his current role as associate dean of Clinical Affairs and Graduate Medical Education of the University of Tennessee Health… Read More


Education = Prevention: Physician Called to Educate Public on Infectious Disease Prevention

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Portrait of Dr. Chinelo Animalu

Here’s how Chinelo Animalu, MD, describes her role as an infectious disease physician:  “We deal with those cases that make everybody else run in the opposite direction,” she says.  An associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the College of Medicine at UT Health Science Center, Dr. Animalu is also the medical director for Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare… Read More


Forty Years of Fortitude: Dr. James Dale’s Journey to Develop a Life-Saving Strep Vaccine

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When the phone call came, Dr. James Dale’s first thought wasn’t gratitude or pride. It was confusion. “Why in the world are they giving this award to me?” the professor emeritus recalled thinking. “Where are all the young, innovative people?” Yet after four decades of research on a vaccine that could save nearly half a… Read More


New Chief of Staff Strengthens College of Medicine’s Tennessee Mission

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Brittany Sheehy's headshot

Brittany Sheehy, PhD, recently joined the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center as the chief of staff for Executive Dean Michael Hocker, MD. As chief of staff, Dr. Sheehy manages internal operations for the executive dean’s office. “Brittany brings exactly the kind of strategic thinking and operational excellence we need… Read More