Publisher: Daily Memphian

Health Sciences Park, the 10-acre park in the heart of the Memphis Medical District, has been renamed Medical District Park.

From classmates to roommates to hospital colleagues for half a century, two Memphis doctors have shared a lifetime of career milestones. Urologist Dr. Vance Shappley, 82, and ophthalmologist Dr. David Usdan, 83, both grew up in Memphis and worked at their family businesses.

A new $34 million crisis wellness center that will help expand access to care and divert people from local jails and emergency rooms is slated to open on Valentine’s Day.

Hundreds of pages of investigative reports on the Jan. 17, 2023, plane crash that killed four members of Harvest Church in Germantown are now public, including official interviews, expert accounts on the aircraft and wreckage and new information about the pilot and copilot.

There have only been three Black drum majors in the more than 150 years since the University of Tennessee marching band was founded. The current drum major is Christian Carroll, a junior music education major and a 2022 Collierville High School graduate.

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.