Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital is in the midst of an expansion to bolster critical care for its most fragile patients, from the tiniest preemies to children who need life-saving heart surgeries. “If you look at where we’re seeing increased volume in need, it’s in that critical-care complex, so that’s why the hospital made the decision… Read More
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital is attracting pediatric cardiologists and heart surgeons from across the United States to join the growing team at its Heart Institute. This past summer, Dr. David Nelson relocated to Memphis from Houston. He left Texas Children’s Hospital to serve as director of the pediatric cardiac critical care program and cardiovascular intensive… Read More
Now, as autumn creeps toward winter and the time change gifts us with less daylight, our minds and bodies begin to undergo a shift, says Dr. Ferrell Varner, an assistant professor in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center psychiatry department.
Dwayne Accardo, an associate professor in the college of nursing at University of Tennessee Health Science Center and head of the nurse anesthesiology program, is riding for his third straight year, a pilgrimage he struggles to sum up and can’t imagine missing.
Dr. Jerre Freeman, humanitarian and ceaseless innovator, loved big ideas. But he also loved acting on them and investing in them. Those qualities brought the region big advances in ophthalmology, starting with innovations in cataract surgery. By the early 1980s, Memphis was one of the few places in the United States where it was outpatient… Read More
Dr. Kathryn Sumpter wears an insulin monitor on her upper arm. A half dozen times a day or more, she peels back a sleeve to show a young patient what it looks like to live with type 1 diabetes.
“Nobody really knows what’s going to happen this season because the last two seasons have been so unusual,” said Dr. Sandy Arnold, division chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Medical Co-Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. An estimated 58,000-80,000 children under the age of five are hospitalized with RSV infection each year,… Read More
The Memphis Medical District Collaborative and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are teaming up to host a free wellness festival for the surrounding community in the recently renovated Morris Park at 747 Poplar Ave. The first ever Medical District Wellness Festival, slated for Saturday, Sept. 16, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., aims… Read More
