HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama “The Last of Us” and the video game series that inspired it take place in a world where a mass, airborne fungal infection has transformed humans into violent zombies. And while the series is a work of fiction, the threat fungal pathogens pose to humans is real, with infections becoming increasingly common… Read More
Animalu, who’s also an associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, said she declined a speaking engagement at a suburban high school after she was told she could not mention the use of contraceptives while discussing HIV. “I spent 15 years training to become an infectious disease and HIV… Read More
“This is worse in the African American community,” said Dr. Chinelo Animalu, an infectious disease attending physician at Methodist University hospital and associate professor of at UTHSC College of Medicine. “I’m a Black woman from Africa, and this hits me real hard to see young people contracting this disease that’s easy to avoid.”
The recently expanded Heart Institute at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has named Dr. Bret A. Mettler as executive co-director and chief of pediatric cardiac surgery.
Southern Reins is also providing hands-on educational opportunities. It serves as a continuing-education fieldwork site for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and an internship location for Rhodes College and Concorde Career College’s Occupational Therapy Assistant Program.
Dr. Neil Hayes, head of the Center for Cancer Research at UT Health Science Center said: “This is the kind of work that is really exciting. I think this is a great collaboration to be in.”
The annual Top Doctors listing from national health care research firm Castle Connolly is proof positive of the tremendous impact the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has on the lives of the people in Memphis and across Tennessee.
Dr. Neil Hayes, director for the Center for Cancer Research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, expects the numbers will look similar in a national accounting, saying that the “factors at play are factors that will scale nationally.”
