Volunteers from the Campbell Clinic provided foot exams and distributed new shoes to 104 homeless people at the Memphis Union Mission on Tuesday, Nov. 19. The pop-up clinic at 600 Poplar Ave. was part of a national event called Our Hearts to Your Soles.
Regional One Health has long been a lifeline for residents of rural West Tennessee who need specialized health care unavailable in their own communities. That includes patients with high-risk pregnancies, who must travel back and forth to Memphis to receive care at the hospital’s Center for High Risk Pregnancy.
The keynote speaker was local businessman and mental-health advocate Michael Drake. Dr. Altha Stewart, senior associate dean of community-health engagement at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, led a workshop that offered continuing-education credits.
A slew of capital-improvement projects dominated the conversation at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s advisory board meeting Friday, Nov. 8.
“I chose to get a terminal degree, getting my doctorate where I made sure that I accomplished that goal of being the best I can in my profession,” said Smith-Young, a pediatric nurse practitioner specializing in endocrinology at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center and an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center’s… Read More
Scholars have gone on to study medicine at institutions like the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Meharry Medical College, Philadelphia’s Temple University and Baptist Health Sciences University’s new College of Osteopathic Medicine.
When the Memphis Zoo’s veterinary team needed a better look at the hearts of their bonobos, they turned to the cardiology experts at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital’s Heart Institute.
The clinic collaborates with other health care organizations, such as the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the VA Medical Center, and also conducts clinical trials for new medications and methods, such as electric measurements, to detect disease progression.
