Nearly one in 10 Tennessee children are being raised by their grandparents, according to the Tennessee Commission on Children & Youth. “Most have already raised their children and now they’re raising a second set of children, and sometimes there are challenges that they were not expecting,” said Rhonda Ferguson, family advocate counselor with the Shelby… Read More
The local business community will play a key role in the success of BlueOval City, and Collierville business leaders heard more about the vision from the man overseeing the site Tuesday evening.
PBC’s Insley said Memphian Dr. Thomas “Toney” Russell, the company’s chief medical officer, has played an integral role in the business’ growth. Russell, an orthopedic trauma surgeon, researcher and professor emeritus of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has called Memphis home for the last half a century.
Cem Kuscu, assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, grew up in Turkey. He is haunted by messages on Twitter of people beneath the rubble sending addresses and begging for rescue. “It’s not tens or hundreds, but thousands texting their positions,” he said. “The rescue efforts are slow because they cannot handle… Read More
Dr. Altha Stewart, director of the UTHSC Center for Youth Advocacy and Wellbeing, recently pushed a presenter during a meeting to change his language, saying “we do not call them juveniles.” In that statement, Dr. Stewart offered the presenter an opportunity to not only change their language, but ultimately to change their thinking.
Dr. Jason Vanatta, a longtime member of Methodist’s transplant institute’s surgical team, has been named program director of the Methodist Transplant Institute in Memphis. The institute, which is known for broad success with liver, kidney and pancreas transplants, is also known as the James D. Eason Transplant Institute, in honor of Vanatta’s predecessor.
Nurse practitioners associated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis are among the first allowed to practice without physician oversight in Arkansas — the first state in the Southeast to allow qualified nurse practitioners to practice independently.
Dr. Van Snider was a pediatrician who was still seeing patients when he died, but who had just as big an impact teaching young kids to play basketball. Snider (from Knoxville) did his internship and residency at the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences.
