Publisher: Daily Memphian

It has been more than three years since a novel coronavirus — SARS-CoV-2, alias COVID-19 — flipped everyday life upside down.

A new Covid-19 strain BA.2.86, was identified by the World Health Organization on Aug. 17. and is being monitored worldwide. So far, it has not shown up in Tennessee wastewater samples and the case numbers remain low. “So we don’t know what the percentages are because they’re just that low,” said Dr. Shirin Mazumder, associate… Read More

Dr. Kenneth R. Tilashalski has been named Executive Associate Dean for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Dentistry. He will join the faculty effective Sept. 1. Dr. Tilashalski earned his Doctorate of Dental Medicine degree from Southern Illinois University and completed residencies at UAB in oral pathology and endodontics.

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will be recognized this fall for a nursing partnership that’s had an impact on the Mid-South. The two institutions will receive the Exemplary Academic-Practice Partnership Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Dr. Christina Rosenthal, a native of South Memphis and graduate of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry, has been honored as a 2023 Health Equity Hero for the success of her nationally renowned program, Determined to Be a Doctor Someday.

A clinic that provides no-cost occupational therapy for underserved children with special needs has a bright and colorful new permanent home in the Medical District. The Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy Center has moved into a new clinical space on the fifth floor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s building at 920 Madison Ave. The… Read More

“We do see cases go up in summer with people going inside because of the heat waves and because of travel and waning immunity,” said Dr. Shirin Mazumder, associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine. “And cases may go back down. Then we could anticipate another increase… Read More

Tennessee’s largest educator of health care professionals has a new executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer, its first-ever vice chancellor for strategic partnerships, a new College of Pharmacy dean and a new interim executive dean as well.