When the Memphis Zoo’s veterinary team needed a better look at the hearts of their bonobos, they turned to the cardiology experts at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital’s Heart Institute.
The clinic collaborates with other health care organizations, such as the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the VA Medical Center, and also conducts clinical trials for new medications and methods, such as electric measurements, to detect disease progression.
The blighted Medical Center Towers on The University of Tennessee Health Science Center campus are set to be demolished. The 12-story, 400,000-square-foot tower at 969 Madison Ave. is set to be demolished based on permits filed with the Memphis and Shelby County Department of Planning and Development.
Dr. Terri Finkel has devoted her career to working with critically ill children and finding ways to ease their pain. The Stanford University-educated pediatric rheumatologist and immunologist is well known in her field and has many accolades, including a place in the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is world renowned for fighting childhood cancers, but the hospital is also working to vaccinate children against a virus capable of causing a host of cancers in adulthood.
“We have an affiliation with the University of Tennessee (Health Science Center) that allows them to train on our new dual console robots with these master surgeons who are already certified for this real-time training,” said Smith, who’s also the market CEO of Saint Francis Healthcare.
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.
