Jayme Wasson began noticing that her daughter, Lilly, then 18 months old, was losing words and exhibiting behaviors that were a little different. “Our daughter wasn’t talking, and we really had no way of communicating, which was frustrating for her and frustrating for us,” Wasson says. “It broke our hearts.” A nurse at Le Bonheur… Read More
Four executive leaders from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine were named to the Castle Connolly Top Doctors list of Exceptional Women in Medicine. Nominated by their peers, the doctors were selected after undergoing a rigorous screening process conducted by Castle Connolly’s physician-led research team. Among the many UTHSC physicians listed,… Read More
Natascha S. Thompson, MD, FACP, associate dean for Graduate Medical Education (GME) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been named to the Board of the Tennessee Medical Foundation (TMF), which advocates for and provides support to physicians and other health care professionals impacted by addictive disease or mental or emotional illness. Dr.… Read More
In the early, frightening days of the COVID-19 pandemic, UTHSC College of Medicine alumna, Kelly Arnold, MD, (’06) and the rest of the staff at Clínica Médicos in Chattanooga took a hard look at what was happening in their city. Clinics were closing all around them. Clínica Médicos, they said, would not. Acting quickly, Dr.… Read More
Andrew Griffith, MD, PhD, the senior associate dean of research for UTHSC’s College of Medicine, has been awarded the David D. Coleman Endowed Professorship. Dr. Griffith joined the College of Medicine in July 2020 after 22 years at the National Institutes of Health. As senior associate dean of research, Dr. Griffith manages the growth of the… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center played a prominent role in the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare earlier this month in Los Angeles. Ten members of the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation (CHIPS) and two faculty physicians shared research, including a livestream presentation on the role logisticians play in planning simulations.… Read More
A project aimed at helping Memphis-area youth with sexual abuse issues has received support from the U.S. Department of Justice. Principal investigator Jacqueline Page, PsyD, professor, and William Murphy, PhD, professor emeritus, both in the Psychiatry Department at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, were recently awarded $475,000 by the Office of Justice and… Read More
Within weeks of the first COVID-19 case in Shelby County in early March 2020, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and its clinical practice partner, University Clinical Health, had the largest drive-through testing station in Shelby County up and running, staffing it morning to night with dozens of volunteers, many of them students. For… Read More
