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
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
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
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
When Jennifer Ferris, MHS, CCRC, received the 2025 Alston Exempt Staff Award in December, the recognition marked more than a personal milestone. It was a notable moment for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine – Knoxville. Ferris is the first recipient from the Knoxville campus to earn the university-wide honor, an… Read More
When Yuru Huang, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, talks about nutrition policy, she doesn’t start with statistics or regulatory language. She starts with the grocery store. Picture a busy shopper, she says, reaching for familiar items — chips, cereal, snacks — moving… Read More
