From East Tennessee to West Tennessee, the Tennessee Rural Health Care Center of Excellence at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences is enabling providers to close health care gaps in rural communities statewide with $1.75 million in grants announced today. Established in 2025 with a $12 million grant from the Tennessee Department of Health, the… 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
Last Saturday morning, 25 Shelby County high school students came to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center campus in Memphis to compete in the state’s first-ever Brain Bee. Not all arrived believing a career in medicine was possible. By day’s end, they could picture themselves as the person in the room who had the… Read More
Ammar Ammar doesn’t want you to think about him. As assistant vice chancellor and chief technology and information security officer at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Ammar knows he’s doing his job when faculty, students, and staff move seamlessly through their days without technology setbacks. “I want you to have a great experience,… Read More
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
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
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
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
