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.
Baptist Health Sciences University is a step closer to adding a College of Osteopathic Medicine, which could help remedy the region’s shortage of primary care physicians. Dr. Peter Bell, a DO who has served as vice provost and dean of medical education at Baptist Health since 2021, expects the college will receive pre-accreditation status in… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center held its first investiture ceremony for a chancellor Friday, Nov. 4, at the Cannon Center Downtown. UTHSC formally conferred the authority and symbols of the office on Dr. Peter Buckley, who became the 11th chancellor of UTHSC in February. “There is much to be done, and we will do… Read More
University of Tennessee leaders from Knoxville and Memphis met on Monday, Oct. 31, to kick off a statewide tour to tout the impact of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. UT president Randy Boyd joined UTHSC chancellor Dr. Peter Buckley for the launch of the “Everywhere You Look, UTHSC” tour. The pair will visit Jackson,… Read More
Could COVID-19 get worse this winter? Could it be a tough flu season? Do you need to be vaccinated for both? Should you be wearing a mask? All valid questions. And here to answer those questions and more, are infectious disease experts Dr. Jon McCullers, from the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee… Read More
