Publisher: Daily Memphian

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center honored Church Health founder Dr. Scott Morris for his contributions to health care in Memphis.

When Team USA Olympic runner Noah Lyles won the bronze in the 200-meter men’s final in Paris on Thursday, Aug. 8., after testing positive for COVID, it was a far cry from 2020’s Toyko games, where a positive test would have landed an athlete in immediate isolation.

Dr. Jessi Gold has spent the past six months creating a culture of wellness across the University of Tennessee system. The University of Tennessee brought Gold on board in February as its first-ever chief wellness officer for its entire system.

The Soulsville Foundation has partnered with the Tennessee Heart Health Network to host the summit at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, located on the Soulsville campus. The network is a statewide initiative to improve primary care for all Tennesseans. Launched in 2021, it’s led by the Tennessee Population Health Consortium, a research center at the University… Read More

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.