Commissioners are still assembling a list of priorities they want accomplished in the Tennessee General Assembly’s next session, which begins in January. It is the second state legislative agenda for the current group of commissioners who began their four-year term in September 2022.
Jacob Likes remembers watching football with his father every weekend growing up. He reminisced on how they’d play the NCAA 2004 Football video game and throw the ball around in the backyard. Now, Likes is the one people watch play football. Likes also refers to himself as a nerd, and that is credited to his… Read More
The University of Tennessee College of Nursing is hosting a sickle cell disease boot camp through Friday, Nov. 3, in which nurses from around the world will learn about the illness.
Regional One Health now has a dedicated space for students and residents from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine. This comes as Shelby County’s public hospital and UTHSC inch closer to a partnership that would establish Regional One as an academic medical center affiliated with the university.
Dr. Frederick Azar, Campbell Clinic’s chief of staff, has been elected to lead the board of directors at ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Azar is a professor and director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship Program in the University of Tennessee-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Biomedical Engineering.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing is working to increase the number of nurse-midwives in the Delta region, where maternal mortality rates are high and maternity care is scarce.
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
