About 25 protesters lined the streets outside the University of Tennessee Health Science Center on Thursday, criticizing the school’s use of live pigs to train medical personnel.
Dr. Margaret Rhea Seddon is a 1973 graduate of the medical school and one of NASA’s first female astronauts … The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis said [that] from 1996 to 2007, Seddon was assistant chief medical officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Jessica Wells, vice president for medical education and research for Saint Thomas Health and an assistant dean for graduate medical education at UTHSC, said the training program would serve aspiring doctors and dentists, advanced practice nurses and other health providers.
The project is an initiative of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and is funded by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s foundation arm. The project works with about 400 expecting and new mothers in Memphis and Chattanooga to help them decrease the risk of losing a child within the first year of life — the… Read More
… the Erlanger board of trustees approved a long-awaited affiliation agreement with the University of Tennessee.
